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Atos named on CDP ‘A List’ for leading effort against climate change

Paris, December 10, 2020

Atos these days announced that it has been commended for its actions to deal with world wide warming by world wide non-gain organization CDP, a person of the funding members of the Science Based Targets initiative, which drives firms and governments to lessen their greenhouse gasoline emissions. Atos has obtained a location on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’ for local weather modify for the 7th time, dependent on the Group’s local weather reporting in 2020. Atos is amid the top rated 5% of 5,800+ firms scored worldwide, representing half of the world wide current market capitalization.

Atos was regarded for its actions to mitigate local weather possibility and to speed up the changeover in direction of a decarbonized economy, focused on minimizing the carbon footprint of its organization routines and embarking its ecosystem of shoppers, partners and suppliers on this journey.

“The 5th anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, taking location this 7 days, reminds us of the urgency of taking action to keep away from world wide warming further than the 1.5°C concentrate on. Atos dedicated to web-zero carbon emissions by 2035 and we are on monitor,” said Philippe Mareine, Chief Digital & Transformation Officer, Head of CSR at Atos. “CDP’s recognition and our rank in the ‘A-list’ mirror our impactful actions to lessen our environmental footprint and engage our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization,” he added.

As leader in secure and decarbonized electronic, Atos strengthened its environmental approach in 2020 by committing to decrease by half its world wide carbon emissions (scopes 1,2 and three in totality) in the up coming 10 a long time and attain web-zero carbon emissions by 2035, a date which  is  15  years  ahead  of the  ambitious  purpose of the  UN  Paris  Agreement  on Climate  Alter to  restrict the global  warming of the world to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial ranges (web-zero by 2050). Some of Atos’ substantial achievements incorporate:

  • Reducing its operational carbon depth (tons CO2 / M€ ER[1]) down to 21 tCO2 / M€ ER (2019) and consequently obtaining the very first milestone of the SBTi 2oC ten a long time in progress
  • Reaching carbon neutrality for the emissions beneath its command due to the fact 2018
  • Minimizing the vitality use of our datacenters by 27% due to the fact 2015
  • Attaining the ISO 14001 certification in 89% of our major sites (places of work and information facilities)
  • Introducing in 2020 an interior carbon pricing (eighty € / tons CO2) to generate organization decisions in direction of decarbonization
  • Introducing binding contractual Decarbonization Amount Agreements (DLAs) for its customers
  • Foremost the European supercomputing current market by creating the most electric power successful merchandise line of supercomputers in the environment, BullSequana X. What’s more, Atos designed the #1 vitality-successful machine in the Best one hundred greatest supercomputers in the environment, owned by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany
  • Participating its suppliers and partners by way of bold decarbonization progress designs to halve its Scope three emissions by 50% by 2030 (2019 base line)
  • Reinforcing its decarbonization skills by way of EcoAct acquisition and specialized startups (Tier Just one, Greenspector, Prepare A) in its Scaler method.

Atos was among the signatories of the  “Business  Ambition  for  1.5°C” pledge, released in mid-2015 in the run-up to the Paris Climate Alter Conference. Atos has, amid other rankings, topped the DJSI index in its marketplace due to the fact 2018 and was awarded “Platinum” by EcoVadis in 2020.

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CDP Methodology

A in depth and unbiased methodology is utilised by CDP to evaluate these firms, allocating a rating of A to D dependent on the comprehensiveness of disclosure, awareness and management of environmental pitfalls and demonstration of most effective practices affiliated with environmental leadership, these kinds of as placing bold and significant targets. Individuals that really do not disclose or furnished insufficient details are marked with an F.

The complete checklist of firms that made this year’s CDP A Checklist is accessible listed here, alongside with other publicly accessible firm scores: https://www.cdp.web/en/firms/firms-scores

About Atos

Atos is a world wide leader in electronic transformation with 110,000 staff in seventy three countries and once-a-year profits of € twelve billion. European variety a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Overall performance Computing, the Group supplies close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Details, Enterprise Purposes and Digital Place of work alternatives. The Group is the Globally Information and facts Technological know-how Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates beneath the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to aid design and style the long term of the details area. Its skills and products and services assist the growth of understanding, training and investigate in a multicultural approach and add to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group permits its customers and staff, and members of societies at massive to dwell, function and establish sustainably, in a risk-free and secure details area.

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[1] Exterior profits