Atos named on CDP ‘A List’ for leading effort against climate change
Paris, December 10, 2020
Atos currently declared that it has been recommended for its actions to deal with worldwide warming by worldwide non-financial gain corporation CDP, a person of the funding customers of the Science Primarily based Targets initiative, which drives corporations and governments to lessen their greenhouse gasoline emissions. Atos has realized a place on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’ for weather change for the seventh time, based on the Group’s weather reporting in 2020. Atos is among the the top rated 5% of 5,800+ corporations scored worldwide, symbolizing 50 percent of the worldwide market place capitalization.
Atos was acknowledged for its actions to mitigate weather threat and to speed up the changeover to a decarbonized financial system, focused on minimizing the carbon footprint of its business enterprise activities and embarking its ecosystem of clients, partners and suppliers on this journey.
“The 5th anniversary of the Paris Climate Settlement, using place this week, reminds us of the urgency of using motion to avoid worldwide warming further than the one.5°C concentrate on. Atos committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2035 and we are on keep track of,” stated Philippe Mareine, Chief Electronic & Transformation Officer, Head of CSR at Atos. “CDP’s recognition and our rank in the ‘A-list’ replicate our impactful actions to lessen our environmental footprint and engage our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization,” he extra.
As leader in secure and decarbonized electronic, Atos strengthened its environmental technique in 2020 by committing to reduce by 50 percent its worldwide carbon emissions (scopes one,two and 3 in totality) in the upcoming 10 a long time and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2035, a date which is 15 years ahead of the ambitious goal of the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Improve to limit the global warming of the planet to one.5°C in comparison to pre-industrial amounts (net-zero by 2050). Some of Atos’ considerable achievements consist of:
- Decreasing its operational carbon depth (tons CO2 / M€ ER[one]) down to 21 tCO2 / M€ ER (2019) and for that reason reaching the to start with milestone of the SBTi twooC 10 a long time in progress
- Achieving carbon neutrality for the emissions under its command because 2018
- Reducing the vitality usage of our datacenters by 27% because 2015
- Obtaining the ISO 14001 certification in 89% of our key websites (offices and knowledge centers)
- Introducing in 2020 an inner carbon pricing (eighty € / tons CO2) to travel business enterprise decisions to decarbonization
- Introducing binding contractual Decarbonization Degree Agreements (DLAs) for its buyers
- Major the European supercomputing market place by producing the most electric power efficient solution line of supercomputers in the planet, BullSequana X. Moreover, Atos constructed the #one vitality-efficient machine in the Prime 100 greatest supercomputers in the planet, owned by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany
- Engaging its suppliers and partners through ambitious decarbonization development programs to halve its Scope 3 emissions by fifty% by 2030 (2019 base line)
- Reinforcing its decarbonization know-how through EcoAct acquisition and specialized startups (Tier A person, Greenspector, Program A) in its Scaler software.
Atos was amongst the signatories of the “Business Ambition for one.5°C” pledge, launched in mid-2015 in the run-up to the Paris Climate Improve Conference. Atos has, among the other rankings, topped the DJSI index in its market because 2018 and was awarded “Platinum” by EcoVadis in 2020.
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CDP Methodology
A in depth and unbiased methodology is made use of by CDP to evaluate these corporations, allocating a rating of A to D based on the comprehensiveness of disclosure, recognition and management of environmental hazards and demonstration of most effective practices affiliated with environmental leadership, this sort of as location ambitious and significant targets. These that do not disclose or provided inadequate information and facts are marked with an F.
The complete list of corporations that produced this year’s CDP A List is readily available in this article, along with other publicly readily available enterprise scores: https://www.cdp.net/en/corporations/corporations-scores
About Atos
Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 workforce in seventy three international locations and annual income of € twelve billion. European range a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Overall performance Computing, the Team provides finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Knowledge, Organization Apps and Electronic Office remedies. The Team is the Worldwide Details Technology Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The reason of Atos is to help design the potential of the information and facts place. Its know-how and providers guidance the growth of awareness, education and exploration in a multicultural solution and contribute to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the Team allows its buyers and workforce, and customers of societies at large to stay, get the job done and acquire sustainably, in a harmless and secure information and facts place.
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