Atos boosts its decarbonization ambition committing to Net Zero by 2028
Paris (France), February eighteen, 2021
Atos today announces that it is elevating its decarbonization ambition to get to “net zero” by 2028. With this ambition, Atos is committing to reducing the global carbon emissions under its handle and affect by 50% by 2025[one] (scopes one, two, 3[two]), and to offset all its residual emissions by 2028.
Atos’ new trajectory is 22 decades forward of the 2050 goal established by the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2°C by 2050 higher than pre-industrial ranges, and seven decades forward of the goal previously established by the Group.
With this ambition, Atos also commits to get to the SBTi goal by 2025. The SBTi goal on greenhouse fuel emission reduction aims to limit global temperature rise to one.5°C higher than pre-industrial ranges. Atos’ goal is five decades forward of both equally the most stringent SBTi pathway and of the goal previously established by the Group.
The final decision to raise its ambition was determined by the results of Atos’ decarbonization options, which have now materialized into a reduction of the Group’s global carbon emissions by 15% in 2020[3] (from 3.3 to two.eight M Tons CO2), of which an estimated ten% is structural improvement in addition to the conjunctural Covid-19 influence. It also demonstrates Atos’ dedication to even more accelerate its customers’ digital decarbonization.
Atos is once once more positioning itself between the most highly developed engineering organizations worldwide in the struggle against local weather modify and is supporting to limit global warming to one.5° C higher than pre-industrial ranges. As a reminder, Atos is rated #one in the digital sector worldwide by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
“It is time to accelerate the struggle against local weather modify. By elevating our personal decarbonization ambition, we will improved guidance our shoppers on their journey by tapping into the electric power of digital technologies and their discovered probable to lessen carbon emissions by up to twenty p.c in other sectors. Our worldwide market leadership in decarbonization will right reward all our customers”, said Elie Girard, Atos CEO.
Atos has now strongly executed on its decarbonization options more than the past year, resulting from a method that encompasses all company activities and company units, and decades of continual investment in competencies, competencies, and research. The Group’s decarbonization efforts are concentrated on 4 key spots:
- Genuine estate: optimization of place of work room and vitality intake throughout all regions, with major efforts to undertake decarbonized vitality. This has materialized into a 34% minimize of global CO2 emissions of Atos offices in 2020 vs. 2019 (19% excluding the Covid-19 influence), with an accelerated change to carbon-no cost and renewable vitality, powering forty four% of all Atos offices in 2020 (versus twenty five% in 2019)
- Datacenters: improved vitality efficiency materializing into a 15% minimize of global vitality intake of Atos datacenters in 2020 vs. 2019 and a change to carbon-no cost and renewable vitality, which now powers fifty five% of all Atos datacenters in 2020 (versus 32% in 2019)
- Provide chain: introduction of systematic decarbonization criteria for the Atos provide chain, which has now led to major gains (e.g. a ten% reduction in the vitality intake of all new PCs). Atos was listed between the prime seven% of organizations assessed for provider engagement on local weather modify in the 2020 CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard
- Products and solutions & alternatives: Atos constantly increases the vitality efficiency of its products and solutions, illustrated by the launch in 2020 of the #one greenest equipment between the prime 100 premier supercomputers in the world, delivered to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.
To make sure that its dedication to decarbonization is mirrored at all ranges throughout the enterprise and to raise staff awareness on digital sustainability, Atos introduced in 2020 an internal carbon pricing mechanism (80 € / ton CO2), which applies to all of Atos’ functions, as very well as the “Atos Green” application, which provides Atos staff with assets to make sure the cheapest attainable environmental impression.
In parallel, Atos options to build a bolstered offsetting application, concentrating mainly on carbon sequestration, for all its residual emissions.
For its clients, Atos is establishing a distinct decarbonization supplying to guidance its shoppers in rapidly utilizing complete decarbonization techniques. Capitalizing on the acquisition of EcoAct in 2020 and the growth of a dedicated portfolio, Atos now offers CO2 reduction commitments via DLAs (Decarbonization Level Agreements) in all massive contracts. These commitments, which are measurable and auditable by 3rd functions, bind Atos to indemnify shoppers if the year-more than-year carbon reduction contractually agreed commitments are not achieved.
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with one zero five,000 staff and once-a-year earnings of more than € eleven billion. European variety 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and higher effectiveness computing, the Group provides personalized end-to-end alternatives for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its shoppers. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
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[one] 2019 baseline Atos’ new ambition has been fully validated by the Science Dependent Targets (SBT) initiative.
[two] As outlined by the Greenhouse Fuel Protocol: https://ghgprotocol.org/
[3] Scopes one,two and 3