Atos boosts its decarbonization ambition committing to Net Zero by 2028
Paris (France), February 18, 2021
Atos today announces that it is increasing its decarbonization ambition to arrive at “net zero” by 2028. With this ambition, Atos is committing to minimizing the international carbon emissions below its manage and impact by fifty% by 2025[one] (scopes one, two, three[two]), and to offset all its residual emissions by 2028.
Atos’ new trajectory is 22 a long time forward of the 2050 concentrate on established by the Paris Settlement to restrict international warming to 2°C by 2050 over pre-industrial degrees, and 7 a long time forward of the concentrate on previously established by the Team.
With this ambition, Atos also commits to arrive at the SBTi concentrate on by 2025. The SBTi concentrate on on greenhouse gasoline emission reduction aims to restrict international temperature rise to one.5°C over pre-industrial degrees. Atos’ concentrate on is 5 a long time forward of the two the most stringent SBTi pathway and of the concentrate on previously established by the Team.
The decision to increase its ambition was inspired by the accomplishment of Atos’ decarbonization designs, which have currently materialized into a reduction of the Group’s international carbon emissions by fifteen% in 2020[three] (from three.three to two.8 M Tons CO2), of which an believed ten% is structural improvement in addition to the conjunctural Covid-19 result. It also demonstrates Atos’ motivation to even further accelerate its customers’ digital decarbonization.
Atos is the moment once again positioning by itself amongst the most state-of-the-art technology firms around the globe in the battle against climate improve and is encouraging to restrict international warming to one.5° C over pre-industrial degrees. As a reminder, Atos is ranked #one in the digital sector around the globe by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
“It is time to accelerate the battle against climate improve. By increasing our have decarbonization ambition, we will superior guidance our shoppers on their journey by tapping into the energy of digital systems and their identified potential to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20 per cent in other sectors. Our around the globe business management in decarbonization will immediately profit all our customers”, mentioned Elie Girard, Atos CEO.
Atos has currently strongly executed on its decarbonization designs around the previous year, ensuing from a tactic that encompasses all enterprise activities and enterprise units, and a long time of continuous investment decision in capabilities, competencies, and analysis. The Group’s decarbonization attempts are targeted on 4 major locations:
- Actual estate: optimization of business house and energy usage across all locations, with significant attempts to undertake decarbonized energy. This has materialized into a 34% decrease of international CO2 emissions of Atos offices in 2020 vs. 2019 (19% excluding the Covid-19 result), with an accelerated switch to carbon-totally free and renewable energy, powering 44% of all Atos offices in 2020 (as opposed to twenty five% in 2019)
- Datacenters: enhanced energy efficiency materializing into a fifteen% decrease of international energy usage of Atos datacenters in 2020 vs. 2019 and a switch to carbon-totally free and renewable energy, which now powers fifty five% of all Atos datacenters in 2020 (as opposed to 32% in 2019)
- Provide chain: introduction of systematic decarbonization criteria for the Atos offer chain, which has currently led to significant gains (e.g. a ten% reduction in the energy usage of all new PCs). Atos was listed amongst the major 7% of firms assessed for supplier engagement on climate improve in the 2020 CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard
- Solutions & methods: Atos continually improves the energy efficiency of its solutions, illustrated by the release in 2020 of the #one greenest machine amongst the major a hundred biggest supercomputers in the globe, presented to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.
To make certain that its motivation to decarbonization is mirrored at all degrees across the firm and to increase staff awareness on digital sustainability, Atos released in 2020 an interior carbon pricing mechanism (80 € / ton CO2), which applies to all of Atos’ operations, as very well as the “Atos Green” app, which presents Atos workforce with assets to make certain the cheapest achievable environmental influence.
In parallel, Atos designs to build a strengthened offsetting program, focusing predominantly on carbon sequestration, for all its residual emissions.
For its consumers, Atos is acquiring a unique decarbonization giving to guidance its shoppers in quickly utilizing thorough decarbonization strategies. Capitalizing on the acquisition of EcoAct in 2020 and the enhancement of a committed portfolio, Atos now provides CO2 reduction commitments through DLAs (Decarbonization Degree Agreements) in all significant contracts. These commitments, which are measurable and auditable by third functions, bind Atos to indemnify shoppers if the year-around-year carbon reduction contractually agreed commitments are not met.
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[one] 2019 baseline Atos’ new ambition has been entirely validated by the Science Primarily based Targets (SBT) initiative.
[two] As outlined by the Greenhouse Fuel Protocol: https://ghgprotocol.org/
[three] Scopes one,two and three
