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COMMITMENT COMMITMENT

Promote material recycling, Develop climate-responsible
recovery and reuse models

Every one of SUEZ’s employees is working for the Resource The fight against climate change and the large-scale deployment
Revolution. Shifting the Group’s activities towards the circular of the circular economy both demand the creation of a new economic
economy is the most effective means of achieving this end. model structured to take external environmental and social impacts
into consideration.
The circular economy disconnects growth from the consumption
of natural resources, while also reducing GHG emissions. The Group SUEZ is working to develop this model by adopting an internal
is renewing its goal to increase the proportion of waste turned carbon price, by systematically proposing a remuneration of
into secondary raw materials and is making this goal worldwide operators indexed to global performance, by participating in efforts
in scope. to develop material circularity indicators that will make the
measurement of the impacts of the new model more robust and
by encouraging a revolution in attitudes through the implementation
of a genuine circular economy culture.
OBJECTIVES

n Introduce a directive carbon price in 60%
of the annual expenditure committed to new projects
n Introduce a harmonised global circularity indicator
OBJECTIVES for goods and services

n Increase the production of secondary n Systematically offer pay packages partially index-linked
raw materials by 20% to our global performance
n Achieve a ratio of 2 tonnes of waste for reuse, n Raise employee awareness and promote training
for every tonne of waste that is disposed of. in emerging models (carbon accounting, new business models etc.)

The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

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