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Veolia will operate Rennes Métropole's waste-to-energy plant for a further three and a half years. The facility will produce green energy that will heat 20,000 homes in the city.
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Yesterday in Niamey, Empow'Her - an international organization supporting women's entrepreneurship - and Veolia inaugurated L’Oasis in the presence of Dr Lalla Malika Issoufou, First Lady of Niger and the project’s sponsor. The purpose of this place dedicated to women is to facilitate their integration into the economy through entrepreneurship and raise their awareness of sustainable development issues.
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The 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, opened this morning on the theme of "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World". The program began with the launch of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Factor10 initiative in which Veolia is participating alongside more than 30 large companies working in 16 business sectors.
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Veolia has just won new water and sanitation contracts in France from the city of Saint-Pierre in Réunion, the inter-municipal drinking water service covering the municipalities of Frontignan, Balaruc-les-Bains and Balaruc-le-Vieux in the region of Occitanie, and the La Barche inter-municipal wastewater service in Lorraine.
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23 - 26 January, the 48th World Economic Forum in Davos brought together 70 heads of state and 3,000 economic decision-makers and association managers, focusing on the topic "Creating a shared future in a fractured world". Veolia proposes the creation of more inclusive solutions, involving all territorial stakeholders via a circular economy approach. Laurent Auguste, Veolia Director of Development, Innovation and Markets, and Dinah Louda, Executive Director of Institut Veolia, participated at this event.
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The RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook is the leading publication in CSR performance assessments based on the business indicators of companies.
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In 2017, Veolia achieved revenue of €25,125 million, 4.9%[1] and 3.5% like- for-like growth. The fourth quarter demonstrated continued business momentum with faster revenue growth (+6.3%[1]).
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Supported by the Veolia Foundation, the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) collected plankton samples from all the world's oceans to establish a species and gene catalogue. By building the largest ever plankton ecosystem database, researchers crossed the threshold of 100 million listed genes – more than half of which were unknown at the time. The results were published in two papers for Nature Communications on 22 and 25 January 2018.
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The multipurpose training centre in Loumbila (CFPL) opened its doors at the beginning of the year. Funded by the Monaco Red Cross and managed by the Burkina Faso Red Cross, it benefits from Veolia's know-how in terms of access to water and wastewater management.
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On the occasion of its Facts Reports’s publication on "Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the city", the Veolia Institute organized a conference on 27 February in partnership with The Future Society. The debate brought together Nicolas Miailhe, president of The Future Society, Mathieu Saujot, coordinator of “the linking digital and ecological transitions initiative” at IDDRI, Julien Hendrickx, professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, and Claire Falzone, CEO of Nova Veolia. The speakers suggested ways of taking advantage of this new industrial revolution in cities.
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Veolia is participating in "Girls on the Move Week" organized by the “Elles Bougent” association, a Group partner, as part of International Women's Day. This international initiative aims to boost gender mixing in industry. Veolia teams in 10 countries are taking action to introduce 1,000 girls and young women aged 12 to 24 to their technical and scientific professions.
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From 18 to 23 March, 40,000 experts from 160 countries gather in Brasilia for the 8th World Water Forum. Initiated by the World Water Council (WWC), the event aims to promote the protection and sustainable use of water for the benefit of "all life on Earth". On March 22nd,Veolia organized a conference to mobilize actors on the theme of "The Global Pact for the Environment: a project compatible with business?"
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This year, the World Water Day invites us to rise to the water-related challenges of our time by relying on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). It is the opportunity for Veolia to promote solutions that, all over the world, are inspired by nature to better protect it.
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"Decarbonizing economic growth is not enough, we also have to deshydrate it": invited by the University of Paris Dauphine to conclude the conference on "Water - blue gold challenges" that took place today, Antoine Frérot, Veolia Chairman and CEO, presented his vision of the major water-related challenges to come.
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Elles construisent la ville de demain (Girls Building the Cities of Tomorrow) is the first smart city occupations event organised by the Elles Bougent (Girls on the Move) association. The event was a chance for female college students from Hector Guimard Sixth Form College in Paris’ 19th arrondissement – a college specialising in building industry, crafts and built heritage occupations – to meet female Veolia mentors at the group’s head office in Aubervilliers and find out about their areas of expertise.
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Political and economic decision makers met in Paris for the Global Water Summit 2018 with the theme of “Transcending boundaries in the water sector”. An opportunity for Veolia to present its new digital technologies for water management.
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Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has signed an agreement with the consortium led by AWCA Power, Veolia and Dhofar International Development and Investment Holding SG (DIDIC) to develop the Salalah Independent Water Project (IWP). The project relates to seawater desalination for the governorate of Dhofar
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Today Veolia announces results to 31 March growing strongly in line with the objectives set for the financial year 2018.
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Veolia becomes the first water, waste and energy management group to join the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), alongside the founding companies Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Lixil, Firmenich and Tata.
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Yesterday, in France Veolia launched a water service communication campaign with a fun but educational approach. Aimed at consumers, this campaign makes a play on the word "potable" which takes on exceptional value.
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The first Veolia Foundation Aquaforce 15,000 in Uganda has been supplying the Kyangwali refugee camp since March. This new mobile unit, which is used to treat water in emergency situations, has been deployed in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières teams. It has helped contain the cholera epidemic that had been raging since the beginning of the year in the region.
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The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), the authority in charge of drinking water and wastewater management for the Bangladeshi capital, has chosen Veolia and Suez to build and operate the Gandharbpur drinking water treatment plant.
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In 2015, SEMEC (Cannes event planners) turned to Veolia to manage its waste in order to meet its ambitious sustainable development targets. Veolia recovered close to 1,770 tonnes of waste in 2017.
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ArcelorMittal Méditerranée and Veolia Industrie Global Solutions are creating a 50-50 joint venture to modernise the energy installations at ArcelorMittal's Fos-sur-Mer site (France), which produces 4.6 million tonnes of steel each year.
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After 24 months at sea and just a few months from the end of the 100,000 km trip, the Tara Pacific expedition to explore coral reefs is on the final straight. On Friday, 18 May at Veolia headquarters, André Abreu, Director of International Policy with the Tara Expedition Foundation, and Serge Planes, Scientific Director of Tara Pacific, shared the first results from the expedition. They spoke live with Romain Troublé, Executive Director of the Tara Expeditions Foundation, who was in Japan aboard the schooner Tara.
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For its second time at VivaTech, the world’s rendezvous for start-ups and digital innovation, Veolia presented its digital solutions – connected technologies and new digital services – to help cities and industry undergoing the process of transformation. These solutions fall into three areas of innovation - Connected technologies, Smart city and Smart citizens.
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The second ever BiodiversiTerre event will welcome the public to Place de la République in Paris on 2-5 June. The event organised by Paris City Hall and created by Gad Weil, a street artist, and his cultural enterprise, Place Grand Public, will give pride of place to nature in the heart of the city via a plant installation in the square. As an event partner, Veolia is encouraging visitors to take action in their daily lives to conserve natural resources and limit pollution.
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SMEDAR has once again chosen Veolia to operate its VESTA waste-to-energy plant. Optimized operation of the facility and the deployment of new supervisory systems will enable the site’s energy mix to be more effectively managed.
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“Beat plastic pollution” is the theme of this year’s World Environment Day. Veolia is looking to significantly step up its plastic recycling work in order to meet this sizeable environmental challenge.
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Veolia has been awarded three new contracts by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to manage radioactive waste at the CEA’s Paris-Saclay centre in the Paris Region.
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Veolia is showcasing its approach to stemming the tide of pollution in the world’s seas and oceans on World Oceans Day 2018. The Group is developing solutions all around the world to fighting against land pollution and turning it into resources. As part of a circular economy approach and in partnership with local government, industry and citizens, these solutions fall into three main categories: 1. Treat and limit land pollutions in the coastal areas and upstream, 2. Prevent and reduce areas’ vulnerability, 3. Transform production and consumption models toward the circular economy.
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This year’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is focusing on sustainable land management (SLM). SLM is key to balancing out ecosystems, boosting local economies and creating jobs, while actively involving producers, consumers and decision-makers. Veolia puts forward solutions for managing land in a more sustainable way as part of a circular economy approach.
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The Plastic Odyssey team has designed a catamaran, which runs on fuel produced by recycling plastic waste. A prototype was launched today at Concarneau (France), in the company of Brune Poirson, Secretary of State for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and Roland Jourdain, a sailor.