Our Climate Pledges Net Zero Emissions by 2O35 1O Pledges
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corporate social responsibility Our climate pledges net zero emissions by 2O35 1O pledges No.1 Invest €1 billion over 15 years No.2 Improve the energy efficiency Draw on all necessary financial, of our Fixed and Mobile networks technical and human resources Switch to Fiber and 5G, two energy- ecient technologies Optimize our network equipment No.3 Ensure our data centers No.4 Further enhance the have advanced environmental environmental performance of performance our Freeboxes Roll out the adiabatic cooling process Eliminate air freight from our supply to all our new data centers chain Extend the useful lives of our Set up a Life Cycle Assessment process equipment to up to 10 years to eco-design our Freeboxes Include information about energy use By 2025, reduce our subscriber base’s and carbon emissions on our customer energy use by at least 15% invoices No.5 Deploy an environmentally No.6 Deploy a responsible -friendly sales strategy procurement policy Reject strategies that encourage Set up a work group with Nokia to replacing mobile phones before reduce the energy consumption of our necessary mobile equipment Encourage drop-o of used phones in Work with electronic component our Free Centers manufacturers to limit the energy Support non-profit organizations that consumption of our Freeboxes collect e-waste for re-use and recycling No.7 Reduce emissions generated No.8 Help create more renewable by our fleet of 4,2OO vehicles energy capacity Have 25% electric vehicles by 2025 By 2035, 50% of energy supplies in Italy Set up a fleet telematics system and 20% in France provided under PPAs with renewable energy producers Target: average of 20g CO2 /km by 2035 Support the renewable energy sector No.9 Invest in carbon sinks No.10 Set up a climate performance Develop projects in France and Italy tracking system Obtain Low Carbon label for all Put in place a system for communica- projects in France by 2035 ting our climate performance, based on a set of indicators 01 • Our climate pledges Contents Preliminary comment O5 Introduction O7 Our ambition 11 1.1 By 2O21: a carbon neutral group 1.2 By 2O35: net zero emissions for Scope 1 and Scope 2 1.3 By 2O5O: net zero emissions for material Scope 3 emissions Our pathways to net zero 15 2.1 Low carbon transformation of our businesses 2.2 Greener power supplies 2.3 Contribution to carbon neutrality in France and Italy proportionately to our total emissions Conclusion 27 03 • Our climate pledges Overview of the iliad Group Preliminary 14,OOO €5.3 billion 9% growth employees in revenue in revenue comment in 2019 in 2019 For the past 20 years we’ve been building in France and Italy for all carbon emissions the iliad Group, made up of the iliad parent associated with energy use by the assets we In France company and Free, Free Mobile and iliad Italia. own or operate. It’s a fantastic adventure, combining entre- preneurship and teamwork to bring digital Today we’re making ten significant, measurable technologies within everyone’s reach. Our pledges. We’re ready to invest €1 billion over Businesses Brands Subscriber base mission is to deliver technical 15 years to meet the objec - excellence and best-in-class tives we’ve set and to use Internet service Free 13.4 million services to our 42 million all the industrial and com- provider mobile subscribers at ultra-compe- mercial levers available to us. Scaleway subscribers titive prices. It’s not always We will deploy our expertise Mobile telephone easy but there’s no mistaking and mobilize each and every operator Jaguar Network 6.6 million our commitment to doing one of our employees and fixed things right. business partners to achieve Supplier of cloud subscribers our climate goals. infrastructure, IoT We’ve never assumed that to and Managed do things right all it takes is We intend to forcefully Services to focus on technical perfor- address the climate emer- mance and cost efficiency. gency and to fast track Doing things right also delivery of the benefits and means acting responsibly positive outcomes of the towards our subscribers, our digital revolution for the In Italy employees, the regions we environment. So we need work in, society as a whole, to invent and implement and the environment. solutions for the collective Businesses Brands Subscriber base development of a digital As digital technologies have world that protects the Mobile telephone Iliad 6.8 million taken root in people’s day-to- climate and is good for the operator mobile day lives and our business has grown, we’ve environment. That’s why we’re also pursuing subscribers experienced an increase in our carbon emis- a strategy to massively reduce our indirect sions. But this doesn’t have to be the case! carbon emissions. In recent years, we’ve been working hard to limit our environmental footprint. For example, At the same time, our climate pledges are a call we’ve optimized our network and data center for dialog with all stakeholders (our compe - Coming soon… energy management systems, our Freeboxes titors, suppliers, subscribers, local authorities, have been redesigned to be recyclable and to etc.) in order to build together a sustainable In France In Italy In Poland meet the highest energy eciency standards, strategy for our whole industry. and we’ve eliminated air freight from our supply New B2B business New Fixed Integration of chain, except in special circumstances (Covid). We’ve successfully overcome the many business Play’s Mobile challenges that we’ve faced since the Group business and new We have a duty to make a decisive contribu- was formed and we’re convinced we’ll be Fixed business tion to meeting the European Union’s carbon equally successful in working together to find neutrality target set in the Paris Agreement. the path to carbon neutrality. And we intend to go even faster by setting what are very ambitious objectives for our Group, in We hope you enjoy reading this document. order to meet the net zero target by 2035 04 • Our climate pledges 05 • Our climate pledges Introduction We knew that the Internet would trigger an Instead of resting on our laurels, we’ve unprecedented revolution and we wanted decided to go even further in order to bring everyone to have easy, aordable access to forward the date when we achieve carbon this technology without being locked into a neutrality. If we carry on as we are and don’t long-term contract. Thanks to the launch of make an extra eort, our carbon emissions the Freebox, the world’s first triple-play box, are likely to be double today’s level in 2050 in 2002, followed by our disruptive Mobile due to: oers, over the years we have democratized The ongoing increase in data trac. access to digital technologies and their many uses. Growth in our subscriber base. Densification and faster rollout of our Today, we have 14,000 employees, united in networks to support usage and fulfil our their commitment to serving our 20 million regional coverage obligations. subscribers in France, 7 million subscribers in Italy and 15 million subscribers in Poland. Business diversification, with our entry into We have entered new businesses (B2B, the B2B market in France and the develop- Cloud), and will soon be entering new markets ment of our cloud services. (the Fixed markets in Poland and Italy). The Extension of our geographic footprint to digital revolution is continuing and will lead in Italy and Poland. the mid-term to a sharp rise in digital usages across all sections of the economy and society. We are responding to the challenge of contai- ning our carbon emissions by implementing The development of digital businesses an ambitious climate strategy that complies must take into full account the climate with the Paris Agreement and is organized emergency. In 2019, the digital1 economy repre- around three milestones: 2021, 2035 and sented 4% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) 2050. The strategy has been developed with emissions2 and 2% of GHG emissions in France3. the assistance of the Carbone 45. consultancy It should be noted, however, that the use of and other experts. Our business in Poland telecoms networks is currently responsible hasn’t yet been taken into account because for only a small proportion of the digital the Group’s acquisition of local mobile economy’s total environmental footprint. operator Play only took place in late 2020, In France, for example, telecoms represents some two years after we started work on 5% of the digital economy’s carbon footprint4 developing our climate strategy. It will take and 0.1% of the country's GHG emissions. time to assess the environmental perfor - mance of our Polish operations and include In recent years, we have worked hard to them in our strategy, although we've already significantly reduce the impact of our set the wheels in motion and we'll update businesses on the climate. Based on current the strategy at a later date. This document data, our Group’s energy performance is therefore describes our objectives andstrate- among the best: our average 2.3 kg of CO 2 gic pathways in France and Italy for now and per subscriber per year is equivalent to the future. 12 hours of heating and is considerably less than 0.1% of the total carbon footprint of a French citizen. 07 • Our climate pledges Our three GHG emissions scopes GHG emissions by scope Carbon emissions per subscriber The first step in any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to identify the biggest emission sources associated with the business.