REDUCING our carbon emissions The electricity consumption of its laboratories and employee business travel are the Group’s main two sources of CO2 emissions. Laboratories account for 88% of our electricity consumption. This is why, in 2022, we launched a global Carbon Plan to promote energy efficiency,improve energy performance, and share bestTAKING ACTION practices throughout the network. In one great for biodiversity example, by using a hydroelectric turbine, our laboratories in Mato Grosso, Brazil, are now run By joining the Act4nature initiative, exclusively on clean energy. In Japan, we opened Bureau Veritas is taking concrete action to protect a food safety testing laboratory where 35% of its biodiversity. Launched by the French nonprofit green electricity supply comes from solar energy. Entreprises pour l’Environnement (“Companies And in laboratories dedicated to raw materials, for the Environment”), this initiative aims to get we established a working group to reduce CO2 businesses involved in efforts to safeguard emissions. We have also implemented several biodiversity. In 2021, the Group signed the requirements for our fleet of vehicles. As of Act4nature International promise. In 2022, January 2022, for example, all the vehicles we this translated to specific commitments falling acquire or rent must emit less than 60 g of CO2 into seven categories of action, such as offering per kilometer. The catalog of service vehicles biodiversity-related solutions to help clients offered to employees at all entities includes hybrid protect the environment, asking all our suppliers or “zero emission” vehicles. to protect biodiversity and launching an internal awareness-raising campaign. BY 2025 ACHIEVE 2 TONS OF CO2 EMISSIONS PER EMPLOYEE (PER ANNUM). BUREAU VERITAS37