ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS and Corporate Social Responsibility
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ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS and Corporate Social Responsibility CONTENT LEADERSHIP MESSAGE 4 SES ENGAGEMENT IN NUMBERS 5 OUR PLANET 6 Environmental Impact 7 - Our sites 7 - Princess Elisabeth Antarctica 8 Disaster Response 9 - emergency.lu 9 - International Organization for Migration (IOM) 10 - SES & Project Loon 11 - Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) 12 Economic and Social Development 13 - e-Health (SATMED) 14 - e-Learning 15 - e-Elections 16 - e-Banking 16 - e-Agriculture 17 Education 18 - Academic Partnerships 19 - Elevate 20 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) 21 - Hello Future 21 - Engineering Trainee Days 21 Reusable Technology 22 Space Debris 23 Asteroid Day 24 OUR PEOPLE 25 Diversity and Inclusion 27 Giving Back 28 ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS 3 LEADERSHIP MESSAGE By Karim Michel Sabbagh, President and CEO A key opportunity of our times is to We are the world’s leading satellite- experience of our people, our partners connect everyone on the planet. enabled solutions provider. Our global and financial resources to make network is built on a foundation a difference in the world. At SES, Optimizing the use of digital skills and of a growing fleet of more than 60 we’re committed to operating our technologies could generate $2 trillion satellites and an expansive ground business in a social and responsible of additional global economic output infrastructure. Our network reaches way. We go above and beyond what by 2020 and generate significant almost 100% of the world's population: is compulsory, and set our own social benefits. Universal connection we connect and enable broadcast, targets for how we approach the offers us a chance of dealing with telecom, corporate and government environmental and ecological profile key global challenges: reducing customers, powering the development of the business, our educational poverty, protecting the environment, of connectivity across the world. Our contributions, charitable activities, conserving energy and building network bridges the digital divide human capital and corporate strategy. access to social justice, education and by delivering connectivity to people health for people everywhere. and businesses across the planet, Our goal is to create a universal digital wherever they are. highway that is reliable, scalable, Connectivity can in fact fuel life sustainable, flexible and ecological. changing applications such as We continually support new and Our mission is to connect, enable, and e-emergency, e-health, e-learning, innovative technologies, such as enrich. We reach beyond frontiers. e-elections and e-banking. The reach reusable launchers, satellite refueling of satellites then offers the power and in-orbit satellite payload to bring these resources to people exchange and technology innovation. anywhere in the world, even in the most remote areas. This is what we at We play a leading role in the SES do. communities where we live and work. We harness the skills and Karim Michel Sabbagh SES ENGAGEMENT SES in numbers ENGAGEMENT OUR PEOPLE >20 2K 65 Corporate sites employees nationalities worldwide represented at SES OUR SATELLITES 54 12 33 15 satellites in satellites in orbital satellites Geosynchronous Medium Earth locations under Orbit (GEO) Orbit (MEO) procurement DISASTER RESPONSE Participant in DEPLOYMENTS >5 PPP's * • GovSat • European 5G PPP • Electra emergency.lu 50% SES >50 50% Luxembourg • emergency.lu Government • SATMED 28 countries 24 Europe 13 US served by SES GS** 10 SATMED 12 Africa 4 Middle East Connecting the unconnected 62 4 Other government SES Networks provides entities 3 Asia more than 10 Gbps 2 UN to remote islands around the globe * Public Private Partnership ** SES Government Solutions EDUCATION 1K 5K >15 knowledge networking satellite technicians academic communities at SES trained since 2012 collaborations ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS 5 OUR PLANET ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OUR SITES We apply best practices in minimizing refrigerant leakage, car fleet) Betzdorf site in Luxembourg. These the environmental impact of our sites • Scope 2: Indirect Energy servers emit a lot of heat and need to across the world and outsourced consumption (purchased electricity be constantly cooled. activities, such as the manufacturing or heat) and launching of spacecraft. Our • Scope 3: Other Emissions (business Since 2010, our headquarters in compliance is checked through yearly travel, commuting, waste, water Betzdorf, Luxembourg, have been using audits that are conducted both by consumption). electricity sourced from hydropower. internal and by third-party accredited The same technology was applied to organisations that specialise in the field In the context of the legal framework our operations in Sweden. of industrial safety. in Europe , we started to analyse the energy efficiency of the main facilities Through these and other initiatives, Since 2008, we have officially reported in accordance to EN 16247. SES has thus implemented a the CO2 emissions of our operations substantial and ongoing carbon through participation in the Carbon This audit was first performed at the reduction plan in its sites across the Disclosure Project (CDP), which SES's site in Munich, Germany, and world. collects the data of all our business in 2016 at the head quarter site in activities and locations. Betzdorf, Luxembourg. The data collection for CDP covers We are particularly focused on carbon three scopes: reduction initiatives. In fact, billions of items of data exchanged by satellite • Scope 1: Direct Combustibles through teleports are analysed in (such as chemical fuels and gas, computer servers located on the ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS 7 PRINCESS ELISABETH ANTARCTICA Antarctica is the most remote continent Polar Foundation and thus enable station’s design and construction on Earth. The “Drake passage”, between the foundation's Princess Elisabeth seamlessly integrate passive building Antarctica and the nearest populated research station in Antarctica to technologies, renewable wind and continent, South-America, is around communicate via satellite. We provide solar energy, water treatment facilities, 1,000km wide. There are no undersea satellite capacity, and also designed monitored power demand, and a smart telecommunications cables connecting and implemented the satellite grid for maximizing energy efficiency. the continent. communications infrastructure, as well as a counter hub station in the UK. The success of Princess Elisabeth International interest in the Antarctic, Antarctica demonstrates how climate which is larger in surface than Princess Elisabeth Antarctica was challenges can be tackled through Europe and Australia combined, is designed as a “zero emission” facility, goodwill and collaboration between growing quite considerably. Each year, requiring the use of sustainable civil society, business and governments. Antarctica is visited by a few thousand technologies and services, yet explorers, adventurers and scientists, functional in the challenging who look to share their discoveries natural habitat of Antarctica. The instantly with their home base. Antarctic operator for the station, the International Polar Foundation In a multi-year plan, we donate (IPF) uses satellite technology for its bandwidth to the International communications infrastructure. The DISASTER RESPONSE Enabling communications at the Telecommunications Cluster to earliest possible time can be a matter provide emergency.lu, a satellite based of life and death in disaster areas, communication platform to deliver as intelligence and coordination are connectivity during disaster response. critical to bring aid to the survivors. That’s why we collaborated with others The satellite communications kit for to develop a satellite service based on emergency.lu includes a lightweight a balloon antenna, making it possible to antenna that is easy to assemble, be transported and deployed anywhere extremely robust – and small enough in the world, even in crisis areas, and be to fit in an Air Ambulance jet plane. operational that much faster. The kit has been widely used since 2012, at one point in South Sudan This project was the first in what is now to help coordinate aid efforts for a broad range of short and long-term those displaced by ethnic violence. solutions to support humanitarian and Currently it is deployed by the disaster relief efforts across the globe. Luxembourg government at the request of humanitarian organisations, for example the lead agency for the emergency.lu Emergency Telecommunications Cluster of the World Food Programme. Effective disaster response offers a solution to economic disruption. Emergency.lu is offered by Luxembourg When disaster strikes, one of the top to the global humanitarian community concerns is establishing fast and and to date it has been deployed reliable means of communication. dozens of times in countries such as First responders, government services Haiti, Nepal, Vanuatu, the Philippines, and humanitarian organisations Nigeria, Sierra Leone and most rely on their link to the world to recently in the Caribbean following a coordinate effective relief efforts and series of devastating hurricanes. Each satellites technology, immediately deployment contributed to restore deployable, can provide the answer. connectivity, saving thousands of SES collaborates with the Luxembourg lives and ensuring the continuity of government, HITEC Luxembourg, businesses and institutions. Luxembourg Air Ambulance, the World Food Programme and the Emergency ENGAGEMENT BEYOND FRONTIERS