Atos boosts its decarbonization ambition committing to Net Zero by 2028

Paris (France), February 18, 2021

Atos right now announces that it is elevating its decarbonization ambition to access “net zero” by 2028. With this ambition, Atos is committing to lessening the world-wide carbon emissions under its regulate and impact by 50% by 2025[one] (scopes one, two, 3[two]), and to offset all its residual emissions by 2028.

Atos’ new trajectory is 22 yrs forward of the 2050 concentrate on established by the Paris Settlement to limit world-wide warming to 2°C by 2050 previously mentioned pre-industrial degrees, and seven yrs forward of the concentrate on beforehand established by the Group.

With this ambition, Atos also commits to access the SBTi concentrate on by 2025. The SBTi concentrate on on greenhouse fuel emission reduction aims to limit world-wide temperature increase to one.5°C previously mentioned pre-industrial degrees. Atos’ concentrate on is 5 yrs forward of both equally the most stringent SBTi pathway and of the concentrate on beforehand established by the Group.

The choice to increase its ambition was determined by the accomplishment of Atos’ decarbonization designs, which have now materialized into a reduction of the Group’s world-wide carbon emissions by 15% in 2020[3] (from 3.3 to two.eight M Tons CO2), of which an believed 10% is structural improvement in addition to the conjunctural Covid-19 outcome. It also demonstrates Atos’ commitment to even further accelerate its customers’ electronic decarbonization.

Atos is once all over again positioning alone between the most innovative know-how corporations worldwide in the struggle from weather modify and is aiding to limit world-wide warming to one.5° C previously mentioned pre-industrial degrees. As a reminder, Atos is ranked #one in the electronic sector worldwide by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

“It is time to accelerate the struggle from weather modify. By elevating our individual decarbonization ambition, we will greater support our consumers on their journey by tapping into the electrical power of electronic systems and their identified prospective to lessen carbon emissions by up to 20 p.c in other sectors. Our worldwide industry leadership in decarbonization will instantly reward all our customers”, explained Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

Atos has now strongly executed on its decarbonization designs around the past calendar year, resulting from a approach that encompasses all company functions and company units, and yrs of continual investment decision in expertise, competencies, and research. The Group’s decarbonization initiatives are targeted on four most important locations:

• Genuine estate: optimization of workplace place and vitality use across all locations, with major initiatives to adopt decarbonized vitality. This has materialized into a 34% lower of world-wide CO2 emissions of Atos offices in 2020 vs. 2019 (19% excluding the Covid-19 outcome), with an accelerated switch to carbon-free of charge and renewable vitality, powering 44% of all Atos offices in 2020 (as opposed to 25% in 2019)
• Datacenters: improved vitality performance materializing into a 15% lower of world-wide vitality use of Atos datacenters in 2020 vs. 2019 and a switch to carbon-free of charge and renewable vitality, which now powers fifty five% of all Atos datacenters in 2020 (as opposed to 32% in 2019)
• Source chain: introduction of systematic decarbonization standards for the Atos source chain, which has now led to major gains (e.g. a 10% reduction in the vitality use of all new PCs). Atos was outlined between the prime seven% of corporations assessed for supplier engagement on weather modify in the 2020 CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard
• Products & methods: Atos repeatedly enhances the vitality performance of its products and solutions, illustrated by the launch in 2020 of the #one greenest equipment between the prime a hundred most significant supercomputers in the globe, provided to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.

To guarantee that its commitment to decarbonization is reflected at all degrees across the organization and to increase worker awareness on electronic sustainability, Atos released in 2020 an internal carbon pricing system (eighty € / ton CO2), which applies to all of Atos’ operations, as properly as the “Atos Green” application, which presents Atos employees with methods to guarantee the most affordable feasible environmental effect.

In parallel, Atos designs to set up a bolstered offsetting software, concentrating primarily on carbon sequestration, for all its residual emissions.

For its customers, Atos is developing a distinct decarbonization providing to support its consumers in rapidly applying extensive decarbonization tactics. Capitalizing on the acquisition of EcoAct in 2020 and the progress of a dedicated portfolio, Atos now provides CO2 reduction commitments by way of DLAs (Decarbonization Degree Agreements) in all substantial contracts. These commitments, which are measurable and auditable by 3rd parties, bind Atos to indemnify consumers if the calendar year-around-calendar year carbon reduction contractually agreed commitments are not satisfied.

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About Atos

Atos is a world-wide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 employees and annual revenue of around € 11 billion. European variety just one in cybersecurity, cloud and superior performance computing, the Group presents tailored conclude-to-conclude methods for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its consumers. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The intent of Atos is to enable style and design the foreseeable future of the facts place. Its abilities and providers support the progress of awareness, instruction and research in a multicultural method and contribute to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Group permits its customers and employees, and customers of societies at substantial to reside, get the job done and produce sustainably, in a safe and protected facts place.

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[one] 2019 baseline Atos’ new ambition has been completely validated by the Science Based mostly Targets (SBT) initiative.

[two] As outlined by the Greenhouse Gasoline Protocol: https://ghgprotocol.org/

[3] Scopes one,two and 3