In Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel (Netherlands), the international flexible packaging producer and distributor LC Packaging and Veolia signed yesterday a strategic partnership aimed at minimising residual waste streams related to flexible packaging on a global scale.
In the run-up to the G7 Summit in Biarritz, which will be attended by the heads of state and governments of the seven member countries (Germany, Canada, United States, France, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom) and the European Union on 24-26 August, a G7 Environment on Fighting inequality by protecting biodiversity and climate was organised on 5 and 6 May in Metz. Veolia's Sustainable Development Director, Pierre Victoria, spoke at the Business and Biodiversity conference as a member of the Act4nature initiative launched by Entreprises pour l’environnement (EpE).
Via its subsidiary Enova - the leading facilities and energy management company in the Middle East - Veolia opened a state-of-the-art centre on 2 May devoted to energy performance solutions.
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On the occasion of Produrable, a European meeting of actors and solutions for the sustainable economy held yesterday in Paris, Antoine Frérot - CEO of Veolia and President of the Institut de l’entreprise – talked about what having a “raison d'être” can bring to a business. His contribution was in the framework of a conference alongside Olivia Grégoire, president of the special commission charged with examining the PACTE bill in France’s National Assembly.
Since tropical cyclone Idai hit the coastal city of Beira in Mozambique on 14 March, the country has faced an unprecedented emergency. France’s Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs asked the Veolia Foundation to send a humanitarian emergency mission into the field alongside its partners Médecins Sans Frontières, the French Red Cross and Solidarités International.
On 2 April at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, Laurent Auguste, Senior Executive Vice President, Development, Innovation and Markets for Veolia, spoke during the opening plenary session of Water Week on the theme of "A Water-Secure World for all". He emphasized the need to develop a disruptive sanitation business model for people on low incomes that is based on circular economy principles and will create value.