World Biodiversity Day : SUEZ is committed to preserving and regenerating biodiversity in India, at its sites and with its customers

Biodiversity encompasses all living organisms, their ecosystems, and their interactions. It is essential to vital human services such as food, drinking water, medicines and climate regulation. By providing wastewater treatment and waste management services, SUEZ contributes directly to preserving nature and biodiversity.

SUEZ has had a deep and long-standing presence in India’s water and wastewater sector—since 1978, in fact. Over the years, designed and developed more than 300 cutting-edge treatment facilities, serving both bustling cities and complex industrial zones. Every single day, about 1 billion litres of wastewater flows through our systems, where it’s treated using advanced technology. Globally as a Group, in 2024, SUEZ treated 3 billion cubic meters of wastewater and produced 2.5 million tons of secondary raw materials.  

To strengthen its action, the Group made concrete commitments in its 2023–2027 sustainable development roadmap to reduce its own impact on biodiversity and accelerate the deployment of solutions that support its regeneration.    

Addressing the five factors responsible for biodiversity loss

Globally, a quarter of the studied animal and plant species, or one million species, are threatened with extinction. To help halt this decline, SUEZ is taking  action against land artificialization, the overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, water pollution, and invasive alien species.  

Some examples of local actions undertaken by SUEZ in India include: 

• Partnerships with NGOs like Noble citizen foundation in Delhi & Gurgaon and Doers in Shimla to adopt and maintain green cover within the cities.
• Campaigns around the year especially around key days like environment and biodiversity day to raise awareness amongst the communities.
• Revegetation actions across sites like Sonia Vihar Wastewater treatment plant, Okhla wastewater treatment plant or Bharwara Sewage treatment plant in Lucknow etc. where actions like tree planting and pond creation have been undertaken.
• Creation of habitats for wildlife through setting up of Bird and bat boxes installation.
• Development of biodiversity action plans for different sites across India following biodiversity audit .
• Installation of bee’s hives at various projects.
• Reduce mowing frequency of grassland to allow wildflowers to grow.
• Avoid use of phytosanitary products at select sites.
• Doing biodiversity audit at select sites and identification of native trees to be planted.

Organising biodiversity walks for all employees like the recent one at Tau Devi Lal Biodiversity Park on Thursday, 22nd May 2025. The objective is for employees to understand the significance of nature and local biodiversity and how one can preserve them.

SUEZ's commitments to biodiversity are available at: https://www.suez.com/en/group/sustainable-development/2023-2027-roadmap/nature