Sustainable Development Roadmap 2017-2021: 2020 results
COMMITMENTS OBJECTIVES INDICATORS UNIT BASE (1) 2020 RESULTS 2021 TARGETS NOTE
PRIORITY 1 - Be a collaborative, open and responsible company
Promote diversity and well-being at work
Train more than 80% of employees every year Percentage of employees who received training during the year % 67.5% 55.1% 80%
Achieve a level of 33% of management positions filled by women Group-wide
Percentage of women in management % 28.1% 28.9% 33%
Increase the coverage and the rate of employee participation in commitment surveys
Percentage of coverage of commitments surveys (cumulated over the last 3 years)
% 49% 74.8% 100% (2)
Percentage of employee participation to commitment surveys % 39% 72.5% 60% (2)
Act to ensure health and safety in the workplace
100% of restricted access zones equipped with suitable signage systems
Percentage of restricted access zones equipped with suitable signage systems
% - 82% 100%
Reduce the frequency rate for all Group activities Water frequency rate 4.9 3.54 < 5
Waste frequency rate 12.7 9.19 < 13
Foster collaborative and partnership working
Encourage new collaborative practices Coverage rate of Skype, Yammer, OneDrive, Sharepoint % - c.100%
Increase the number of start-ups in which SUEZ acquires an interest
Number of startups in which SUEZ has acquired an interest Nb 4 11 15
Develop innovation partnerships Number of structures with shared governance or control (industrial framework agreements, mixed ownership companies, joint ventures)
Nb - Value
proposition (3)
Manage issues relating to globalisation
Promote a responsible supply chain Rate of supplier contracts with CSR clauses % - 57%
Protect the working rights of employees and respect human rights
Proportion of employees covered by a social dialogue system (in their company or on a more global level)
% 90% 87% 95%
Guarantee the security of employee and customer personal data
Number of data privacy-related incidents Nb 1 0
Percentage of staff covered by tools to raise awareness of cybersecurity % 58% 100%
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(1) Base: The reference year for the Roadmap is 2016 for all indicators except those relating to priority 2, Be the leader of the circular and low-carbon economy , which corresponds to climate commitments made in 2015.
(2) Tell Us 2018 figures. SUEZ also conducted an engagement survey about its management of the Covid crisis in May 2020, whereby 17,000 employees shared their feedback and made suggestions. 77% of participants declared to be enthusiastic/confident/satisfied about the Group s support during the health crisis.
(3) Elements integrated for each key innovation, activity or investment decision as part of the rollout of the Value Proposition.
(4) Reference year updated to take the changed scope of consolidation into account. (5) Indicator measured at constant perimeter ; new contracts signed since 2016, including those
specifically aiming to improve network performance, are not taken into account. (6) Pilot circular economy analysis using the Circulytics tool of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
(See page 42).
(7) Production of a total volume of drinking water of 1 290 000 m3/day in 40 countries across all continents.
(8) Deployment of a Social Room system allowing for the monitoring of ongoing and potential controversies through weak signals in the media and on social networks.
(9) Not yet available at the time of publication of this report. (10) Equivalent to the capacity of wastewater treatment plants equipped with ultrafiltration
membranes.
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The 2017-2021 Sustainable Development Roadmap covers all of the SUEZ activities worldwide. It directly supports the Group s purpose and fulfills two other fuctions: to drive and manage transformation and to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the UN in 2015. To this end, it is structured around 16 dated and quantified commitments, each of which is
accompanied by a corresponding action plan. In spite of the particular context of the year 2020, the main action plans linked to the commitments enshrined in the Sustainable Development Roadmap 2017-2021 have moved forward and led to improve- ments vis-à-vis the Group s objectives. It should nonetheless be noted that the Covid crisis has had a more pronounced impact
on certain action levers, such as the implementation of the train- ing plan - despite an acceleration of digital training -, or efforts aimed at improving the performance of water networks due to constraints imposed by the sanitary situation. This context has also influenced indicators related to waste recovery following a slowdown of industrial activity in the first half of the year.
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