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Buildings account for 40% of the UK & Ireland's carbon emissions. Our products help to create a building fabric that is efficient and requires minimal heating and cooling, dramatically reducing a buildings' carbon footprint.
NET ZERO CARBON NEW BUILDINGS
NET ZERO CARBON NEW BUILDINGS
Buildings account for 40% of the UK & Ireland's carbon emissions. Our products help to create a building fabric that is efficient and requires minimal heating and cooling, dramatically reducing a buildings' carbon footprint.
Climate change is happening. We’re fully committed to taking action to reduce our impact on the world and strongly believe our products have an important part to play in helping the world to decarbonise.
We were active participants in COP21, which, via the Paris Agreement, saw countries agree on the need to limit global temperature increases to 2%. We are signed up to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. More than that, our CEO Pierre-Andre de Chalendar has actually written a book, ‘Our combat for the climate’ arguing for a more decarbonised world. You can read his latest post on climate change on LinkedIn here.
We know how critical our own journey to net zero is, and we also recognise that real effort, focus and major change is required. We are committed to that - and need all available talent to help us on our journey to net zero.
CONSIDERING CARBON IN OUR INVESTMENTS
We’re actually also one of the only companies in the UK that factors in impact on climate to help decide on which future projects to take forward by introducing an internal carbon price.
We also measure our progress and hold ourselves to account through our annual Corporate Social Responsibility review. This report details exactly how we’re doing and other ways in which we’re helping the community. You can view the latest one here.
And, as well as doing this, because we want to be totally open and honest about our performance – good and bad, we established in 2013 an independent advisory panel to review and critique our progress.
HOW DO YOU FIT IN?
Simply put, if you don’t respect the environment then we’re not the right fit for each other. It’s not a corporate gimmick – this is one of our key Principles of Conduct and Action and something our employees are expected to embrace every day.
WORK ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS
WORK ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS
Some colleague’s roles are dedicated to monitoring and improving the environmental performance of our businesses on a day to day basis.
Find out more from Environmental Advisor, Luke Menzel from British Gypsum.
Thanks to his experience so far in Saint-Gobain, Luke is now participating in a global panel of young people working in the company to highlight how we can encourage colleagues to get more involved in taking action to reduce our environmental impact.
GETTING EVERYONE INVOLVED IN OUR 'BIG LITTLE MOVES'
GETTING EVERYONE INVOLVED IN OUR 'BIG LITTLE MOVES'
Every bank holiday we have a challenge between sites to see who can save the most energy – some of the money saved is then donated to our charity partner. We also have a campaign - ‘Big Little Moves’ – to remind colleagues to make environmentally friendly choices in the office – and hopefully at home too.
Big changes are also afoot with many offices changing suppliers and equipment to more environmentally friendly options. Our Jewson Head Office in Coventry has recently embraced our first electric vehicles that colleagues can book for short journeys. The sites have also changed to recyclable coffee cups and given colleagues reusable water bottles to minimise the need for single use plastic.
As well as these small changes, we’ve also switched our entire supply of electricity for all of our 1,100 sites and manufacturing facilities to renewable only sources.
CARBON FACT:
The energy savings generated by our insulation products, when installed in a building, are 90 times greater than the carbon used to manufacture them!
Read more about our global environmental strategy here.