Atos boosts its decarbonization ambition committing to Net Zero by 2028

Paris (France), February 18, 2021

Atos now announces that it is elevating its decarbonization ambition to arrive at “net zero” by 2028. With this ambition, Atos is committing to reducing the world-wide carbon emissions underneath its handle and affect by 50{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} by 2025[one] (scopes one, two, three[two]), and to offset all its residual emissions by 2028.

Atos’ new trajectory is 22 yrs ahead of the 2050 goal set by the Paris Settlement to limit world-wide warming to 2°C by 2050 higher than pre-industrial stages, and 7 yrs ahead of the goal previously set by the Team.

With this ambition, Atos also commits to arrive at the SBTi goal by 2025. The SBTi goal on greenhouse fuel emission reduction aims to limit world-wide temperature rise to one.5°C higher than pre-industrial stages. Atos’ goal is 5 yrs ahead of both the most stringent SBTi pathway and of the goal previously set by the Team.

The decision to raise its ambition was inspired by the achievement of Atos’ decarbonization ideas, which have previously materialized into a reduction of the Group’s world-wide carbon emissions by 15{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} in 2020[three] (from three.three to two.8 M Tons CO2), of which an believed 10{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} is structural improvement in addition to the conjunctural Covid-19 impact. It also reflects Atos’ determination to further more speed up its customers’ digital decarbonization.

Atos is once once again positioning itself among the most sophisticated technologies organizations globally in the combat from climate change and is supporting to limit world-wide warming to one.5° C higher than pre-industrial stages. As a reminder, Atos is ranked #one in the digital sector globally by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

“It is time to speed up the combat from climate change. By elevating our personal decarbonization ambition, we will better assist our shoppers on their journey by tapping into the energy of digital systems and their recognized potential to lessen carbon emissions by up to 20 per cent in other sectors. Our globally marketplace leadership in decarbonization will directly advantage all our customers”, explained Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

Atos has previously strongly executed on its decarbonization ideas more than the very last year, resulting from a method that encompasses all business enterprise pursuits and business enterprise models, and yrs of steady financial investment in competencies, competencies, and investigation. The Group’s decarbonization efforts are centered on 4 key locations:

• Actual estate: optimization of office environment place and energy usage across all regions, with important efforts to undertake decarbonized energy. This has materialized into a 34{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} minimize of world-wide CO2 emissions of Atos workplaces in 2020 vs. 2019 (19{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} excluding the Covid-19 impact), with an accelerated swap to carbon-no cost and renewable energy, powering forty four{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of all Atos workplaces in 2020 (compared to twenty five{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} in 2019)
• Datacenters: improved energy effectiveness materializing into a 15{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} minimize of world-wide energy usage of Atos datacenters in 2020 vs. 2019 and a swap to carbon-no cost and renewable energy, which now powers 55{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of all Atos datacenters in 2020 (compared to 32{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} in 2019)
• Offer chain: introduction of systematic decarbonization criteria for the Atos supply chain, which has previously led to important gains (e.g. a 10{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} reduction in the energy usage of all new PCs). Atos was detailed among the major 7{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of organizations assessed for provider engagement on climate change in the 2020 CDP Provider Engagement Leaderboard
• Solutions & methods: Atos continually increases the energy effectiveness of its merchandise, illustrated by the launch in 2020 of the #one greenest device among the major one hundred largest supercomputers in the environment, furnished to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.

To guarantee that its determination to decarbonization is mirrored at all stages across the corporation and to raise staff recognition on digital sustainability, Atos released in 2020 an inner carbon pricing system (80 € / ton CO2), which applies to all of Atos’ functions, as well as the “Atos Green” app, which provides Atos personnel with sources to guarantee the most affordable achievable environmental effects.

In parallel, Atos ideas to establish a reinforced offsetting program, focusing predominantly on carbon sequestration, for all its residual emissions.

For its customers, Atos is producing a exclusive decarbonization supplying to assist its shoppers in speedily utilizing comprehensive decarbonization strategies. Capitalizing on the acquisition of EcoAct in 2020 and the improvement of a focused portfolio, Atos now offers CO2 reduction commitments as a result of DLAs (Decarbonization Degree Agreements) in all large contracts. These commitments, which are measurable and auditable by 3rd events, bind Atos to indemnify shoppers if the year-more than-year carbon reduction contractually agreed commitments are not met.

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Atos is a world-wide leader in digital transformation with a hundred and five,000 personnel and once-a-year profits of more than € 11 billion. European selection a single in cybersecurity, cloud and substantial effectiveness computing, the Team provides personalized conclusion-to-conclusion methods for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and merchandise, Atos is committed to a protected and decarbonized digital for its shoppers. Atos operates underneath the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

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[one] 2019 baseline Atos’ new ambition has been totally validated by the Science Based mostly Targets (SBT) initiative.

[two] As described by the Greenhouse Gasoline Protocol: https://ghgprotocol.org/

[three] Scopes one,two and three