Carbon Disclosure Project - A List
Carbon Disclosure Project - A List
→ November 2016
In a first, CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) placed Veolia on its A List for fiscal year 2015, for its commitment to fighting climate change.Only 163 companies in the world, including 13 French, were added to the list. Veolia was also included in the Euronext Low Carbon 100 Europe index, which honors the top 100 Stoxx 300 companies that contribute the most to the low-carbon transition.
Hurricane - HAÏTI
Hurricane - HAÏTI
→ October 2016
On the night of October 3 to 4, 2016, a category 4 storm, Hurricane Matthew, killed several hundred people in Haiti and left 750,000 people without access to clean drinking water. Several days later, the Veolia Foundation dispatched 2 metric tons of equipment: six Aquaforce 500 mobile water treatment systems, six 3-cubic-meter storage tanks and pumping equipment. This material is able to supply drinking water for 12,000 people a day. It is crucial for making water potable but also for helping prevent the spread of cholera, which has affected the country since the devastating 2010 earthquake. On the ground, permanent Foundation staff and Veoliaforce volunteers provide technical support to the ACTEDNGO and UNICEF teams in charge of installing the mobile units in collaboration with local authorities.Several thousand people are provided with drinking water between Les Chardonnières on the island’s south coast, where the first Aquaforce unit was installed, and Port-à-Piment, where the two other units were sited. The remaining three units were installed in Dame-Marie, in the island’s extreme west.
Health and Safety
Health and Safety
→ September 2016
For Veolia’s International Health and Safety Work Week, 105 actions were implemented at company sites in more than 40 countries. The shared target is zero accidents. In 2016, the focus was on high-risk activities: traffic management, working in confined spaces, excavations and trenching, hot work, and handling hazardous goods or chemical agents. To mark the event, Veolia ran a hard-hitting communication campaign to mobilize all employees.Core Partner
Core Partner
→ June 2016
Veolia has joined the New Plastics Economy initiative, which is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, as a Core Partner.The 3-year program proposes an original approach to the plastics system based on the principles of the circular economy. The aim is to rethink and redesign the future of plastics, starting with packaging. The initiative brings together leading companies, cities, philanthropists, policymakers, academics, students, NGOs and citizens.
Gender Balance
Gender Balance
→ March 2016
Veolia has undertaken to improve the gender balance in its businesses and increase the number of women managers. In 2016, the company introduced a gender balance network. Its task is to promote, share and strengthen coordination between actions implemented in all countries. Its sponsors: Estelle Brachlianoff, Senior Executive Vice President UK and Ireland, and Régis Calmels, Senior Executive Vice President for Asia, are both members of the Executive Committee. The network now has more than 2,000 members of whom 50% are men. That’s equality at work!Human rights
Human rights
→ February 2016
Veolia adopted a human rights policy approved by the Executive Committee. The policy defines a framework for action and identifies the eight priority issues for the company in this field, whether respect for the rights of the communities concerned by its businesses or fundamental labor rights.A Veolia Human Rights Committee will now be in charge of rolling out this policy and the action plans to supervise, monitor and improve practices where necessary.
Rancagua - CHILI
Rancagua - CHILI
→ May 2016
Rancagua, one of Chile’s largest urban communities with a population of 250,000, has chosen Veolia to collect its 7,800 metric tons of household and bulky waste each month, and to clean the city’s streets and markets.This 5-year contract also includes the gradual installation of 500 waste containers and special equipment for the markets.
Favorite company - FRANCE
Favorite company - FRANCE
→ December 2016
Veolia, “France’s favorite company”, has topped the list of 11 companies in the Construction and Environment sector that French people would most like to work for.The company is in 21st position in the overall ranking of 295 companies. This poll was carried out by the Toluna Institute for the magazine Challenges.
Pretium - CANADA
Pretium - CANADA
→ October 2016
Veolia is to build an effluent treatment facility for the Brucejack mine in British Colombia. Starting in 2017, this mine will produce 2,700 metric tons of high-grade gold ore. Veolia will treat up to 10,000 cubic meters per day of process effluent. To ensure compliance with the very stringent environmental discharge limits, exhaustive tests have been conducted since 2014.The system put in place by Veolia has given the company Pretium confidence that its industrial water discharge rates will comply with quality standards.
Prague - CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague - CZECH REPUBLIC
→ June 2016
By acquiring the assets of PraŽská Teplárenská LPZ SA for €71.3 million, Veolia strengthened its position in the energy services market in the Czech Republic, raising its share from 14% to 19%.Veolia now operates the district heating networks of much of the left bank of the city of Prague ‒ where it already manages water and wastewater services ‒ providing heating to 55,000 homes as well as to municipal and servicesector buildings, for annual revenue of about €50 million.
São Paulo - BRAZIL
São Paulo - BRAZIL
→ May 2016
The Pedreira landfill, acquired in 2016, generates annual revenue of about €40 million.Some 130 employees handle 5,500 metric tons of solid waste a day at the landfill: 60% from the city of São Paulo, 25% from the region’s industrial and service-sector businesses and 15% from other cities in the urban area.
Germany
Germany
→ Januray 2016
Nuon Energie und Service GmbH joined Veolia.Specializing in the operation of utilities for industrial parks in Germany, the company owns and operates the utilities at two parks in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Veolia will supply both parks with electricity, gas, water, steam management services and waste management brokering. This acquisition, along with that of IPKW in the Netherlands, strengthens Veolia’s position in the industrial services market.