Veolia Environnement helps offset any unwanted impact on the planet through specialist solutions designed to reduce pollution and restore the environment, involving technology such as:

• Processes to improve the quality of treated water discharged into the natural environment
• Collecting and treating (hazardous) waste
• Rehabilitating contaminated soil
• Preserving air quality (treating smoke from incinerators and treatment plants)
• Systematically assessing and controlling the environmental impact of its activities, largely through its Environmental Management System, in use at 81% of Veolia business units around the world

Veolia Environnement develops solutions to decouple natural resource use from economic growth, providing customers with expertise in managing scarcity.

• "Turning waste into a resource" is central to the strategy of our waste management and resource recovery activities at Veolia Environmental Services:
  - 12.8 million metric tons of waste recycled in 2010;
  - Development of sorting and recycling technologies for different materials and equipment, such as paper and cardboard, metals, airplanes, batteries and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
  - 7.5 million MWh of electric power and thermal energy sold in 2010
  - Development of technology designed to optimize biogas capture and use
  - Production of biofuel from fatty waste and recycled cooking oil
• Alongside innovations designed to save water resources through technology able to reduce groundwater withdrawal and remotely detect network leaks to limit water loss, Veolia Water pursues a range of measures to optimize water use:
  - Limiting the impact of activities through methods such as the use of fewer chemicals in treatment processes and closed-loop recycling of effluents from industrial cooling systems
  - Wastewater sludge recycling, by recovering biogas given off through anaerobic digestion to provide energy, and by producing bioplastics
  - Wastewater recycling for irrigation and drinking water production (Windhoek facility in Namibia)
  - Improving performance in seawater desalination through processes designed to limit energy use and brackish water discharge from factories
• By modernizing heating networks using biomass boilers and developing cogeneration (CHP) technology, Dalkia has established itself as a pioneer in energy efficiency and the use of renewables, including:
  - Biomass solutions
  - Cogeneration
  - Geothermal power
  - Data center heat recovery

• Veolia Environnement works tirelessly to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and help customers shrink their carbon footprint, contributing to an overall reduction in world greenhouse gas emissions of 27.5 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent in 2010.
• Veolia's Environmental Management System (EMS) has been measuring progress made on environmental issues since 2002 based on 10 KPI covering priority environmental challenges.
• Veolia provides its customers with decision-making tools to assess the carbon footprint of different approaches, backed by its own commitments on efficiency:
  - GHG Tracker to calculate the carbon footprint of waste management services
  - Eolia to evaluate wastewater and sludge management technologies
  - Energy performance contracts
  - Eco-Efficient Travel Indicator to measure the environmental performance of public transportation in comparison with private cars

Veolia Environnement partners with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and pursues a proactive biodiversity policy in three key areas:

• Improving its awareness of biodiversity issues and continually reviewing its impact
• Taking steps to preserve biodiversity and promote ecosystem services as part of its solutions by preventing, reducing and offsetting the impact of its facilities throughout their lifecycle
• Informing, educating and raising awareness of biodiversity challenges among employees and customers