As a global leader in the water and waste management sectors, we have been operating for over 160 years all over the world. We provide essential services to protect the resource and improve quality of life wherever we operate.
At SUEZ, working to serve the environment is our day-to-day reality. In our water and waste businesses, our teams take action on the ground and help find solutions to build a sustainable future.
Sustainable development: preserving our essentials is an investment in the future
Stéphanie Cau, Chief Communication, Sustainability & Public Affairs, Executive Vice-President
2024 offered fresh evidence of the acceleration of climate change, supplanting 2023 as the hottest year on record. Extreme events are increasing in frequency, and water is in both short and overabundant supply. There is increasing pressure on resources, jeopardising many human activities - food production systems, but also the competitiveness of businesses. Environmental health concerns are intensifying, and in this regard, SUEZ's activities are more important than ever in meeting sustainability challenges.
2024 also marked a major turning point for Corporate Social Responsibility with the entry into force in Europe of the CSRD1. A path that SUEZ has been fully committed to for many years.
At SUEZ, we have been accompanying human progress for more than 160 years with science as our driving force, to develop innovative water and waste treatment solutions. Today, our goal is to provide collective responses to science-based facts: climate change, the erosion of biodiversity, the increasing scarcity of natural resources, and the vulnerabilities that these phenomena create for our societies. Economic players must continue to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, limit the environmental impact of their activities and contribute to local development.
Our sustainable development roadmap is our blueprint to address these challenges, go over and beyond our activities’ direct contribution to the ecological transition, and thus accelerate our action to preserve what is essential.
Our sustainable development roadmap is our blueprint to address these challenges, go over and beyond our activities’ direct contribution to the ecological transition, and thus accelerate our action to preserve what is essential. In 2024, we confirmed this course of action. Following a first year spent rolling out our roadmap, we entered a phase in which we accelerated its operational implementation. We are continuing our efforts to develop and deploy sustainable solutions for the climate, nature and people, drawing on the expertise of our 40,000 employees and the commitment of our customers.
Preserving our essentials is an investment in the future. This is the profound meaning of what we do at SUEZ, in the water and waste management businesses in which we have been working with passion and determination for over 160 years.
