Cap Gemini - Registration Document 2016

CAPGEMINI: PEOPLE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND BUSINESS ETHICS

3.3 Managing our environmental impact

While certain local variations may exist, the Group’s main environmental aspects and impacts (for which data is collected) are shown in the table below.

Main Environmental aspects

Aspects and impacts applicable to the Capgemini business

Business travel

The international and domestic business travel we undertake, by road, rail, air, and from staying in hotels, all involve the combustion of fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollutants into the air. Tackling this remains a major challenge for our industry, which is reliant on the mobility of its people in order to best utilize their skills and experience in serving customers worldwide. We have in place a very comprehensive system to measure our business travel at a country, entity and business unit level, and are even able to support clients with project level reporting. We use a significant amount of electricity, natural gas, district heating and oil to light, heat and power our offices and data centers. Data centers are particularly energy-intensive due to the high level of concern in several of the countries where we operate. IT-equipment to be housed, powered and cooled. Our energy use has an impact in terms of the depletion of finite fossil fuels and associated GHG emissions. Energy security is also a growing area of Much of the waste that the Group produces is generated by office consumables and packaging, as well emissions in particular associated with waste sent to landfill. Whilst waste emissions make up only a very small percentage of our total GHG emissions, waste management is also important in the context of as smaller amounts of food waste from on-site cafeterias or brought in by employees. The transportation, processing and disposal of this waste emits GHG emissions, with high levels of methane Given the nature of our services, our use of water is relatively low and has not been identified as a material environmental impact across the Group. However, concerns over water scarcity are growing in key countries where we operate such as India and Brazil, and will only grow in future. In the World controlling our water use. Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Risk report, concerns over water supply have been identified as the greatest risk to society over the next decade, making it important that we play our part in measuring and The man made gases used in our air conditioning units are known as Fluorinated gases (or F-gases) and whilst used in small quantities these have a high global warming potential. We measure and report on the F-gas leaked from air conditioning systems over time (or due to system faults). Collecting accurate data remains a challenge across the Group due to the fact that many of our sites are leased, with F-gas maintenance procedures not well regulated in some countries. Our F-gas data is split into: F-gas emissions which are considered to be GHG emissions (primarily HFCs, which are covered by ◗ the Kyoto Protocol) – these are included in our Scope 1 GHG emissions; separate column in the tables at the end of this section. F-gas emissions which have a global warming potential but are outside the usual scope of GHG ◗ reporting (such as HCFCs, which are covered by the Montreal Protocol) – these are reported in a mitigating against natural resource depletion and minimizing our material use.

emissions) (approximately 56.5% of our GHG

Energy consumption (approximately 42.8% of our GHG emissions)

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Waste Management (approximately 0.15% of our GHG emissions)

Water

emissions) (approximately 0.25% of our GHG

F-gas (approximately 0.3% of our GHG remissions)

Committed to continuous improvement

made to our reporting this year below: in the sections that follow. We detail the key changes we have (which were excluded from our last Annual Report) are now fully incorporated into our carbon accounting and expanding the scope of our reporting – our IGATE operations 1. sustainability reporting processes. To ensure comparability we have included a full year of IGATE data for 2015. This change increases our 2015 reported emissions by approximately 98,000 metric tons CO 2 e; change of emission factor for air travel – to align ourselves 2. with recommended best practices and ensure we are taking as complete a view of our air travel emissions as possible we 2015 by 89%, and also has a significant impact of our total reported GHG emissions (20% increase); now use emission factors which take into account the impact of radiative forcing (1) . This increases our total air emissions for

increasing the coverage of our reporting to reach the high level of on year to ensure the information we report is accurate, relevant, consistent and complete. This includes, for example, gradually We have been reporting our GHG emissions for the Capgemini Group since 2011, and have made significant improvements year 98.8% coverage we are currently at (with the remaining portion estimated), as well as adding new emission sources to our this year and have made a number of significant changes to our methodology which affect our current year and historical data. inventory. In preparation for the launch of our new Group Environmental targets, we completed a review of best practices These improvements help ensure we maintain an industry-leading approach. However, they have also had a significant impact on our emissions figures (in most cases resulting in an increase) and to ensure comparability we have therefore restated our 2015 data

of air travel. some scientific uncertainty about the magnitude of radiative forcing, DEFRA recommend including their radiative forcing factor (approximately 1.9) to ensure organizations capture the full impact Radiative forcing (RF) is a measure of the additional environmental impacts of aviation. These include emissions of nitrous oxides and water vapour when emitted at high altitude. Whilst there is (1)

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