3

pillars

Climate - Nature - Social

24

commitments


Climate: decarbonising and adapting

Our climate commitments seek to accelerate SUEZ contribution to carbon neutrality for the communities in which the Group operates. Those commitments fall into three categories:

Contributing to energy decarbonization

Decarbonizing SUEZ value chain

Adapting all priority and vulnerable sites to climate change
Our key achievements in 2024

- 11%

Reduction in scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions compared with 2023

35%

Sustainable electricity as a percentage of the Group's total electricity consumption

Nature: preserving and regenerating resources

Our commitments to nature address the five pressures identified by IPBES1 as being responsible for biodiversity decline. We are taking action in three areas:

Preserving resources

Growing nature regeneration capacities of SUEZ

Addressing the pressures on biodiversity
Our key achievements in 2024

80%

Distribution contracts in water-stressed areas with a commitment to preserving water resources

14.8 hectares

that benefited from renaturation operations in 2024

Social: reinforcing collective commitment

Alongside our partners and clients, we are committed to achieving both social and economic development at the same time. Our commitments aim to:

Ensuring respect for universal rights

Growing skills and fostering employee engagement

Contributing to the sustainable development of communities, wherever we operate
Our key achievements in 2024

67 %

Employee engagement rate (Pulse survey)

3,374

beneficiaries of SUEZ's inclusive entities and employment outreach programmes in 2024

Our 2023 - 2027 Sustainable Development Roadmap

3MB PDF

Our 2024 progress report

4MB PDF

Sustainable performance through committed governance

We assess progress towards our sustainability targets according to a strict timetable, using quantitative performance indicators. Indicators are monitored by SUEZ executive management and CSR Committee.

Our CSR Committee, comprising members of the Board of Directors, validates sustainability targets, ensures that adequate resources are allocated to achieve them and evaluates their implementation. It reviews progress towards the Group’s commitments several times a year. The Group’s Executive Committee monitors that progress, performs budget oversight and approves transformative projects that contribute to the achievement of the roadmap objectives. Throughout the year, an operational steering committee meets to monitor the progress of our commitments and their implementation within the various Group entities. 

In addition, 30% of annual variable pay for Chairman, Chief Executive Officers and Executive Committee members, and 20% of SUEZ executives’ long-term compensation were indexed in 2024 to the fulfilment of specific health and safety, climate, employee commitment and gender equality targets.


This is part of a wider governance system designed to ensure that sustainable development issues, ethical principles and risk management are considered at all levels of the business and reported to all the Group’s stakeholders. SUEZ Sustainability Statement, Ethics Charter, Human Rights Policy and Vigilance Plan constitute its key reporting documents and are available on the Group’s website. 

Any breach of the fundamental principles set out in  those documents can be reported to [email protected].