SUEZ Group presents its Purpose to shape a sustainable environment, now

During the Annual General Meeting of May 12, 2020, Bertrand Camus, Chief Executive Officer, will present the Group’s first Purpose to shareholders.

SUEZ’s Purpose, developed throughout 2019 using a highly comprehensive internal and external consultation procedure with stakeholders, employees, customers, partners, and shareholders, signals the Group’s identity, providing direction for the future. In line with the PACTE action plan for business growth and transformation in France and the UN Global Compact’s worldwide commitments, the Company Purpose seeks to set out SUEZ’s contribution to society’s main challenges in a more effective way, in light of its history and culture as well as its deep transformation, started by the Shaping SUEZ 2030 strategic plan.

SUEZ Group’s Purpose is reflected in: 9 months’ collective mobilization and internal consultation; 90,000 employees were invited to participate in several discussions and workshops with stakeholders, panel experts and the support of the Board of Directors in addition to 20,000 participants in an in-house survey; nearly 42,000 verbatims were collected and 18 work groups were led by members of the Group’s top management.

Our Purpose is a reflection of our calling: to shape a sustainable environment, now! For 160 years, our services have played a crucial role in quality of life, human health, economic growth and the development of new secondary raw materials. Our values are a passion for the environment, customers first, respect and team spirit. They allow us to preserve and restore our environment’s natural capital, today and tomorrow: water, soil, and air. I am proud of SUEZ teams’ unwavering commitment worldwide; even more so in the current crisis we are facing. This health crisis will serve to accelerate the environmental transition. It is the only way to contribute to preserving our planet’s natural capital and sustainably improve its inhabitants’ well-being and quality of life.

Bertrand Camus , Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ

SUEZ Group’s Purpose:

“Since the end of the 19th century, SUEZ has built expertise aimed at helping people to constantly improve their quality of life by protecting their health and supporting economic growth.

Our goal is for everyone to have access to essential environmental services. We provide high-quality water suitable for every purpose, and ensure the proper collection of this resource. We recycle and recover waste and wastewater, transforming it into new resources.

Faced with demographic growth, climate change and social and geographical inequalities, humans are increasingly exposed to the consequences of the environmental crisis that is affecting our planet.

Every single day, SUEZ is committed to preserving our environment’s natural capital: water, soil, and air, which are key to ensuring our future. At SUEZ, we invest in preserving and restoring natural capital as well as in the future of biodiversity, both at sea and on land.

SUEZ is a committed partner to local communities, industry players and citizens. Through this commitment, we are strengthening the pivotal role we play in society, mobilizing stakeholders to succeed in the environmental transition, developing the circular economy and innovating to plan for tomorrow’s challenges.

Proud of their business activities and bolstered by their values, SUEZ’s teams are building a sustainable environment in regions around the world, now.”

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