Atos named on CDP ‘A List’ for leading effort against climate change
Paris, December 10, 2020
Atos currently announced that it has been commended for its actions to deal with world wide warming by world wide non-earnings business CDP, one particular of the funding users of the Science Dependent Targets initiative, which drives organizations and governments to cut down their greenhouse fuel emissions. Atos has obtained a position on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’ for local climate alter for the 7th time, based mostly on the Group’s local climate reporting in 2020. Atos is among the the leading five% of five,800+ organizations scored around the world, symbolizing fifty percent of the world wide market place capitalization.
Atos was regarded for its actions to mitigate local climate risk and to speed up the changeover in direction of a decarbonized economy, focused on reducing the carbon footprint of its organization pursuits and embarking its ecosystem of shoppers, partners and suppliers on this journey.
“The fiveth anniversary of the Paris Weather Arrangement, taking position this 7 days, reminds us of the urgency of taking action to prevent world wide warming outside of the 1.5°C target. Atos dedicated to web-zero carbon emissions by 2035 and we are on keep track of,” claimed Philippe Mareine, Chief Digital & Transformation Officer, Head of CSR at Atos. “CDP’s recognition and our rank in the ‘A-list’ replicate our impactful actions to cut down our environmental footprint and interact our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization,” he extra.
As chief in safe and decarbonized electronic, Atos strengthened its environmental approach in 2020 by committing to lessen by fifty percent its world wide carbon emissions (scopes 1,2 and three in totality) in the up coming 10 years and attain web-zero carbon emissions by 2035, a date which is 15 years ahead of the ambitious purpose of the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Alter to restrict the global warming of the planet to 1.5°C when compared to pre-industrial stages (web-zero by 2050). Some of Atos’ sizeable achievements include things like:
- Reducing its operational carbon intensity (tons CO2 / M€ ER[1]) down to 21 tCO2 / M€ ER (2019) and thus achieving the very first milestone of the SBTi 2oC ten years in progress
- Reaching carbon neutrality for the emissions below its handle because 2018
- Lowering the electricity use of our datacenters by 27% because 2015
- Attaining the ISO 14001 certification in 89% of our primary web pages (places of work and facts facilities)
- Introducing in 2020 an internal carbon pricing (eighty € / tons CO2) to drive organization decisions in direction of decarbonization
- Introducing binding contractual Decarbonization Stage Agreements (DLAs) for its prospects
- Primary the European supercomputing market place by building the most electric power productive merchandise line of supercomputers in the earth, BullSequana X. Moreover, Atos designed the #1 electricity-productive equipment in the Major a hundred greatest supercomputers in the earth, owned by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany
- Engaging its suppliers and partners by ambitious decarbonization development options to halve its Scope three emissions by 50% by 2030 (2019 base line)
- Reinforcing its decarbonization expertise by EcoAct acquisition and specialized startups (Tier Just one, Greenspector, Strategy A) in its Scaler program.
Atos was among the signatories of the “Business Ambition for 1.5°C” pledge, introduced in mid-2015 in the run-up to the Paris Weather Alter Meeting. Atos has, among the other rankings, topped the DJSI index in its field because 2018 and was awarded “Platinum” by EcoVadis in 2020.
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CDP Methodology
A comprehensive and unbiased methodology is made use of by CDP to evaluate these organizations, allocating a score of A to D based mostly on the comprehensiveness of disclosure, consciousness and administration of environmental threats and demonstration of very best procedures related with environmental management, such as placing ambitious and meaningful targets. Those that really don’t disclose or provided insufficient data are marked with an F.
The whole checklist of organizations that manufactured this year’s CDP A List is available here, together with other publicly available business scores: https://www.cdp.web/en/organizations/organizations-scores
About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 workforce in 73 international locations and annual revenue of € 12 billion. European variety one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Details, Small business Programs and Digital Workplace alternatives. The Group is the Around the world Information and facts Know-how Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates below the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The goal of Atos is to assist structure the future of the data room. Its expertise and expert services support the development of expertise, training and investigate in a multicultural technique and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group allows its prospects and workforce, and users of societies at large to stay, function and establish sustainably, in a secure and safe data room.
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[1] External revenue