EDF is implementing initiatives directly focused on combating global warming.
Launched at the end of 2020 as part of the “Combatting CO2, it starts with us!” programme, the “carbon neutrality passport” was intended to test knowledge on climate change, assess the carbon footprint, and take action based on challenges in the fields of energy use, housing, power supply, transport and digital technology.
| Carbon neutrality passports | 2021 |
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| Number of passports obtained | Number of passports obtained 2021 33,992 |
| Number of challenges taken up | Number of challenges taken up 2021 68,773 |
The EDF group committed to raise awareness among its 165,000 employees on climate issues through the “Climate Collage”, a collective intelligence-based tool that makes it easy to understand the key conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (1). Due to the health crisis, most of the initial deployment took place digitally, following which face-to-face sessions gradually resumed as the various waves of the crisis allowed. Feedback indicates that participants were very much in favour of the latter format. Seeking to be attentive to its employees, the Group has therefore decided to focus on face-to-face sessions and adjust the pace of the roll-out accordingly.
| Climate Collage | Target | 2020 | 2021 |
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| Number of employees who participated to the Climate Collage | Number of employees who participated to the Climate Collage Target167,157* |
Number of employees who participated to the Climate Collage 20203,200 |
Number of employees who participated to the Climate Collage 2021 22,000 |
| Number of employees who animated the Climate Collage | Number of employees who animated the Climate Collage Target
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Number of employees who animated the Climate Collage 2020170 |
Number of employees who animated the Climate Collage 2021 780 |
| Number of sessions | Number of sessions Target
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Number of sessions 2020330 |
Number of sessions 2021 3,500 |
* Group workforce at the end of 2021; see section 3.3.3.9 “Detailed information on the Group’s workforce”.
| 2021 highlights | On 16 March, the Chief Executive Officer took part in a Climate Collage workshop alongside 7 employees from EDF group and its subsidiaries. |
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| A workshop for the Board of Directors was held on 19 November 2021. | |
| 24 heures de la Fresque: some 1,000 participants contributed to a 24-hour Climate Collage held between 8am on 17 June 2021 and 8am on 18 June 2021. Workshops were held throughout the Group (New Caledonia, China, Cambodia, India, United Arab Emirates, Mayotte, Reunion Island, Europe, Morocco, Cameroon, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Chile, USA) so that the event was held continuously, either remotely or face-to-face, in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
| Eco2 in 2021 | In 2021, the Group launched its “Eco2 conferences”. This series of scientific talks focuses on the issues surrounding a carbon-neutral economy. Around 20 volunteers from among EDF employees, together with members of the Alumni for the Planet* network, are following all of these events. The aim is to produce a formal, practical description of a multi-stakeholder economic system promoting climate issues, welfare, and development; this may result in a publication. |
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* Alumni for the Planet is a network of higher education graduates who have committed to actions in favour of the climate and the environment: alumnifortheplanet.org
| Sites concerned | Through the France-wide EDF group agreement on sustainable mobility unanimously signed in November 2019, a commitment was made to develop an “Employer sustainable mobility plan” for sites with more than 100 employees. As of the end of 2021, 65 employer mobility plans had been finalised across the EDF group in France. |
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| Involvement of employees | Employees are involved in producing and implementing these employer mobility plans. |
| Schemes to develop sustainable employee mobility | Encouraging the use of low-carbon transportation: trialling electric bikes and cars, a “sustainable mobility allowance” for ride-sharers, negotiated discounts for the purchase of electric vehicles. |
| Adapting infrastructures to new travel modes: installation of charging stations, creation or extension of bike parks, reserved parking places for ride-sharing. |
(1) This tool, developed in 2015 by Cédric Ringenbach, has already raised awareness among over 230,000 people worldwide.
