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Stock specific ESG risks from global companies – lessons learnt
Geneviève Ferone, Senior VP Sustainable Development
Veolia Environnement
TBLI, London, 12th November 2010
Corporate profile
Veolia Environnement offers its clients - local public authorities and industrial companies - expertise in four complementary segments: water cycle management, waste management and resource recovery, energy management, passenger transportation and mobility services.
Veolia Environnement designs and implements tailored solutions for its clients that combine economic efficiency with control over environmental impacts, thereby helping to combat climate change, save natural resources and preserve ecosystems.
The leader in environmental services
The only company in the worldable to cover the entire range
of environmental services
The global benchmarkin water services
The global benchmark for wastemanagement and resource recovery
The leading European providerof energy services
The standard for managing safeand sustainable mobility solutions
- Dalkia
World leader
€12.55bn
European leader
€7bn
Worldwide reference
€9bn
European leader
€5.8bn
Our presence worldwide
More than 312,590 employees in 74 countries
2008 Workforceby division
2008 Workforceby region
(as at December 31) (as at December 31)
Water95,789
Wastemanagement85,600
Energy52,557
Transport77,591
France110,524
Africa & Middle East21,676
South America20,145
North America28,167
Europeexcluding France
110,065
Asia-Pacific32,013
Environmental, health and safety risks
Environmental risks: Accidents on operated sites (fire, explosions, accidental emissions into the air, water streams, biodiversity, inappropriate waste and products storage and handling…)
Damage to persons - Ex: the Metrolink accident in California – sept 2008
A credibility issue: insure consistency between the Company’s commitment and its operational implementation
A development issue: reinforce the Company’s acceptability by its stakeholders
Reputational risks
Equal resources sharing
Human rights - Access to essential services• 2 priorities to avoid exclusion:
Giving access to all in developing countriesMaintaining access for all in all countries
• VE’s role is:In the framework of public-private partnership:
- To elaborate and propose non discriminatory programmes to local authorities, according to the Veolia Environnement’s specific “ACCES” 8 points pro poor methodology, based on our experience in developing countries- To implement the decided programmes in partnership with
stakeholders (lenders, associations, elected representatives…)In developing countries’ rural zones:-To develop new services models (pilots) that are economically and environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable, in partnership with stakeholders whose experience is complementary to ours (NGO…)
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A new project: The sustainable development responsibilities and opportunities Atlas
Perimeter : The Company’s sustainable development issues An external data « library » adapted to the Company’s sustainable development issues A geographical approach : the data are delivered as world maps
In the long view…
Connect different levels of information (international / national / local)
In addition to the Atlas, compare collected information to internal data
National level
International level
Local
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