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Our businesses and expertise contribute by nature to preserving the environment and provide essential services. Our sustainable development roadmap 2023-2027 aims to strengthen and amplify this contribution, by bringing the same level of ambition to the fight against climate change, the preservation of nature and social responsibility.
Governance: a committed collective
Our sustainability governance is exercised at the highest level of the company to ensure that ESG criteria are incorporated into the Group's strategy.
Our Board of Directors reflects the shareholder structure of SUEZ and comprises representatives of our institutional shareholders, our employee shareholders and our employees.
It plays a key role in the deployment of the Group's sustainable development strategy, defining the overall strategic direction, validating sustainable development policies and goals, and ensuring that they are consistent with the Group's long-term objectives. The Board is also responsible for overseeing the company's sustainability reporting process, and for validating the remuneration system for senior executives, which includes ESG components.
The Board of Directors is supported by three specialist committees to steer governance and sustainability:
- The Audit and Risk Committee: oversees financial and non-financial risks, including environmental issues. It guarantees the reliability of the extra-financial reporting process;
- The CSR Committee: approves sustainable development objectives, ensures that appropriate resources are allocated, measures their deployment and reviews the execution of commitments;
- The Appointments and Remuneration Committee: ensures that ESG aspects are built into senior management hiring and remuneration criteria.
The Executive Committee oversees the fulfilment of the goals arising from the commitments in the roadmap, leads their implementation, oversees the budget and approves the structural projects that contribute to fulfilling the goals.
Made up of representatives of the Business Units and support functions concerned, the Group Vigilance Committee coordinates the actions of the vigilance plan. It ensures that human rights, health and safety and environmental risks are taken into account throughout the value chain. It analyses incidents and ensures that preventive action is taken.
The Sustainable Development Department defines and steers SUEZ's sustainable development roadmap using quantitative performance indicators, coordinates cross-functional projects with the various departments (HR, Purchasing, Finance, etc.) and Business Units, and consolidates and communicates on the Group's progress in terms of sustainable development. It is composed of, among others, a:
- Head of Climate, responsible for steering the Climate pillar of our roadmap;
- Head of Nature, responsible for steering the Nature pillar and biodiversity issues;
- Head of Sustainable Finance;
- Head of ESG Reporting.
The Sustainable Development Department draws on the expertise of an international network of sustainable development managers and correspondents. This network of experts supports sales teams on sustainable development issues, leads sustainability initiatives and communicates their results within their scope. SUEZ draws on contributions from employee representatives, including the European Works Council, to steer its sustainable development strategy.
For further information, please refer to our annual sustainability statement, available below.
Our key publications, reports and policies
Our key publications and reports
Our key policies and charters (public ones)
Sustainable Finance
SUEZ Green Finance Framework is built on its strategic plan, sustainability strategy, and the work done on identifying the Group’s activities aligned with the EU Taxonomy. It covers almost all the EU environmental objectives: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, circular economy, sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, and pollution prevention and control.
European Taxonomy
Our taxonomy reporting, included in the Sustainability Statement, identifies our main business activities that contribute to Europe’s carbon neutrality target as part of the Green Deal. The aim of the European green taxonomy is to direct public- and private-sector investment towards activities that contribute to the transition to a more sustainable economy.
In 2024, 61.6% of our revenue was taxonomy-eligible, and 37,2% was taxonomy-aligned (stable relative to 2023).
ESG ratings
| Ratings | 2024 | 2025 |
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Gold – 77/100 | Gold – 78/100 |
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BB | BB |
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21.6 Med |
15.9 Low |
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83 |
Not available yet |
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2.94 |
We also adhere to the United Nations Global Compact initiative, and we are committed to complying with the ten sustainability principles set out by the UN as regards respecting human rights, complying with international labour standards, protecting the environment and combating corruption.
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