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HÉLÈNE VALADE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT VP, SUEZ

The new roadmap, designed as a tool for steering the Group's strategy, marks out the path ahead as far as 2021. Launched in early 2017, it extends the previous 2012-2016 Roadmap and applies to all Group s activities within the world. SUEZ international Business Units have adopted it and defined their own contributions to the Group s global targets. The results achieved in 2017 illustrate the strategy's acceleration. For example, the Group's carbon performance is in line with the 2°C pathway and reflects the dynamic progress of solutions for the circular economy: waste-to-energy is now the second- biggest source of avoided emissions, resulting from the Group's activity in European countries that are replacing landfill with thermal recovery; the development of alternative water production (desalination and reuse) responds to a growing need for secure resource access amongst local authorities and industrial players. Digital technology is amplifying the transformation of SUEZ activities and helping to optimise operational performance while also generating new services: 800,000 additional smart meters were installed worldwide in 2017, bringing the total to 3.9 million.

2017 was also marked by improvements in safety indicators in both water (frequency rate of 4.7, down from 4.9 in 2016) and waste recycling and recovery (12 compared with 12.7 in 2016) and by SUEZ's mobilisation to master the challenges of globalisation by promoting a responsible value chain (40% of supplier contracts include CSR clauses) and guaranteeing employment rights for staff (91.3% of whom are covered by labour relations representatives).

One job at SUEZ generates two indirect jobs locally. Its support for local development and regional vitality is also reflected in the proportion of procurement from SMEs or suppliers belonging to the social, cooperative and inclusive economy (34%). Access to essential services is promoted: 23.8 million people (1.4 million more than in 2016) were connected to water and sanitation services in developing countries. All these results illustrate SUEZ's commitment to contributing to the common good.

The results achieved in 2017 provide reasonable assurances that the 2021 targets will be met, even if there is room for improvement for some of them (for example, in terms of levels of women in management or biodiversity local action plans). But above all, these results confirm the relevance of a voluntary, motivational approach to advancing the company's financial and extra-financial performance for the benefit of everyone.

These results confirm the relevance of a voluntary, motivational approach to advancing the company's financial and extra-financial performance for the benefit of everyone.

A LOOK AT THE 2017 RESULTS OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

A PERFORMANCE THAT CONTRIBUTES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST