Our environmental commitments
Our carbon reduction plan is validated by science
Vivendi believes that the private sector has an important role to play in the fight against climate change and has been deploying carbon avoidance and emissions reduction strategies across the group for a number of years.
Vivendi’s environmental roadmap, deployed as part of the Creation for the Planet pillar of its CSR program, is aligned with the Paris Agreement and the scientific recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
To meet its goals, the group implemented a three-phase action plan to: (i) avoid and intrinsically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, (ii) engage its ecosystem in its decarbonization strategy, and (iii) contribute to global avoidance and offsetting of carbon emissions.
In 2020, Vivendi signed up to the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This initiative gets companies involved in decarbonization by helping them align their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets with climate science and the Paris Agreement. Vivendi submitted its carbon reduction plan to the SBTi in December 2021, and it was validated in March 2023
Full details of our objectives and actions can be found on pages 107 et seq. of Vivendi’s 2023 Universal Registration Document.
Examples of initiatives
- More than 40% of the group’s workforce works in Sustainable Buildings certified sites that follow advanced and certified energy efficiency practices: ISO 14001, ISO 50001, HQE® buildings, BREEAM®, LEED®, etc.
- Dailymotion is working on two ways of reducing the carbon footprint associated with its digital services: migrating part of its infrastructure to cloud storage services, and developing a homegrown global virtualization platform to optimize the use of servers and result in energy savings.
- 99% of the paper used throughout the group is either recycled or certified – notably FSC®(Forest Stewardship Council) or PEFC (Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) – in order to avoid contributing to uncontrolled reforestation and to use paper from sustainably managed forests.
- Since 2019, the Canal+ Group has been a member of the Ecoprod collective, which promotes environmentally friendly audiovisual and film production. The filming of Création Originale series such as L’Effondrement, Baron Noir, Ovni(s) and Narvalo followed an eco-production approach.
- Havas, Prisma Media Solutions and Canal+ Brand Solutions deployed tools to calculate and reduce the carbon footprint of advertisers’ campaigns.
- In France, for more than 35 years, the Canal+ Group has been collecting and reconditioning the set-top boxes returned by subscribers to put them back into service. In Africa, Canal+ Group continues to deploy initiatives to recycle old set-top boxes. In total, these operations have collected over 25 tons of material since they were launched.
