Defining climat adaptation and low-carbon development strategies for our public and private-sector clients

Faced with a host of challenges, they have to navigate complex regulatory frameworks and adopt sustainable practices while reconciling economic prosperity and decarbonization. The expertise of our teams supports territories and organizations in defining global and comprehensive strategies for sustainable and resilient development.

How? By promoting environmentally-friendly practices and infrastructures, developing renewable energies, preserving and reintegrating biodiversity, while limiting our carbon footprint as much as possible.

At communities level, we need to reintegrate nature and make living spaces more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. 

At an organizational level, the challenges of sustainable development and ecological transition must be integrated into strategies, governance and decision-making processes. From implementing eco-responsible practices such as the reduction of resource consumption to responsibly managing all flows, including wastewater, waste, and the use of sustainable materials, there are numerous actions that can be taken.

With local authorities and industrial partners, we collaboratively develop their climate, air, and energy strategies and roadmaps through four major stages:

1. Climate, air and energy diagnostics to identify the main issues to be addressed: GHG emissions balance, analysis of renewable energy potential, identification of vulnerabilities to climate change, life cycle analyses, etc.
2. Drawing up a reduction strategy
3. Definition of a customized action plan. SUEZ teams support the implementation of such plans, providing expertise in key areas such as diagnostics and recovery of waste heat and industrial energy systems, optimization of the supply chain, deployment of mobility plans, development of training and awareness programs for stakeholders, etc.
4. Activation of green finance tools for funding actions: operations and financial tools to promote the ecological transition and combat climate change. Specific expertise dedicated to carbon credit certification, eligibility studies and impact assessments of regulatory mechanisms for carbon taxation and finance, etc.
   
   

• Support for the revision of the Est-Ensemble PCAETv
  
• Project management and consultancy for the CNES low-carbon & energy strategy 
  
• Pluriannual Energy Programming for Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin

• Integrated urban strategy studies on new developments,
• Renaturation for local authorities or promoters,
• Support for innovative projects, such as the creation of "cool islands" and the reuse of water at the urban or building scale,
• Developing new financing tools for ecological transition projects,
• Driving urban nature restoration projects,
• Support for the development of tools created by EFFICACITY, such as urbanprint, PowerDIS, VDI label, etc,
• Carrying out complex strategic studies on the potential of renewable energies to guide decision-making and energy choices in urban project
  
  

Some references:

• Developing a local label for financing the ecological transition

How can we enable a dense urban area to develop while fully integrating the challenges of the ecological transition?  
Supporting the ecological transition of a dense city, obtaining additional funding to accelerate adaptation projects, redeveloping cities in a sustainable way while limiting the environmental impact... These are just some of the challenges that our teams have taken up for the city of Paris.

• Redesigning the approach to Miramas to protect against heat islands

How can we combat urban heat waves? What solutions can be found to make the use of the boulevard for soft mobility more comfortable? How can cities be redeveloped in a sustainable way, while limiting their environmental impact? 

A challenge taken up by our teams in the city of Miramas, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region in France .

With an approach that combines expertise in energy and climate, environment, air quality, the intelligent city, urban planning and mobility, our teams consider all aspects of urban life with a global vision of the city and the region. After studying the needs and habits of the citizens who commute daily through these spaces, dedicated solutions are envisioned and proposed. 

The main objective is to develop sustainable urban mobility, at the heart of more pleasant and livable cities and regions.

Numerous missions to give life to your projects:

• Definition of transportation service strategies at different scales: at the level of the city as a whole, a specific district or a particular urban development. These strategies combine mobility needs, local constraints, and sustainability objectives.
• Designing public transportation solutions: route planning, optimizing schedules and designing appropriate infrastructure, etc.
• Development of intermodality to facilitate travel and improve the fluidity of journeys: public transportation, bicycles, car-sharing, etc.
• Integrating new forms of mobility into the urban landscape, such as car-sharing services, self-service electric vehicles, micro-mobility solutions, etc. 
• Anticipating the impact of technological innovations, including advances in autonomous vehicles, intelligent traffic management systems and data-driven mobility applications.
  

• Provide technical assistance and capacity building activities to consolidate climate governance in partner countries
• Better integrate adaptation to climate change into public policies
• Promoting the emergence of structuring adaptation projects

Digital and connected technologies are at the heart of cities and regions. 

A dedicated team brings this expertise to all our projects, offering tailor-made digital technologies. After determining your commercial and business needs in terms of technologies, our experts design and develop solutions to meet them, and then ensure their ongoing maintenance.

Some references:

1. Design & Development of the CarboneDeck software suite.
   The first measurement service for reducing CO2 emissions.
   •  Get an accurate picture of emissions in your area,
   •  Identify the events causing emission peaks,
   •  Define your emission reduction strategies.
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2. NetScan®, an innovative asset management offering based on a collaborative web platform that enables cities and water utilities to maximise the benefits of pipe investment plans. Netscan uses advanced, predictive modelling to assess the structural degradation of underground pipes, enabling better prioritisation of pipe renewal
   

3. OCTET, a dedicated research tool for analysing mobility in the area, using an innovative methodology for modelling energy consumption (STARTER).  An innovative tool developed for the "Est-Ensemble" project

• Integrating biodiversity into urban development
  
• Meet the biodiversity challenges of projects with solutions developed by our teams
  
• Deploying solutions at the heart of projects: examples of 3 urban wastelands that benefit from them