Each brand has a well-defined identity, with a specific values which are reflected in the product offering, features and design, as well as in appropriate communication mechanics.
We remain convinced that our balanced business model, combining profitable growth and a resolutely responsible approach, creates value for all and plays a full part in our contribution to better living in households around the world.
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Contributing to the fight against global warming thanks to our low-carbon strategy, by subscribing to the 2°C scenario of the Paris Agreement.
From design to end-of-life, the Group acts at every stage to limit the environmental footprint of its products and help combat global warming.
Since 2017, it has been measuring its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint across its entire value chain. In 2016, it joined the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) and in 2018 defined its own short and medium term SBT targets. Aware of the importance of biodiversity, the Group joined the Act4Nature International Alliance in December 2021 and has set itself ambitious, quantified and sequenced short and medium term targets based on 4 priorities.
Groupe SEB measures its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout its value chain using the international GHG protocol, developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (see methodology in the Universal Registration Document). This assessment distinguishes between Scope 1 and 2 emissions, which relate to greenhouse gas emissions directly linked to the Group's production activities, and Scope 3 emissions, known as indirect emissions. The breakdown of emissions by category is relatively stable from one year to the next, as shown in the diagram below. The most significant emission items are raw materials and components purchased, and the use of products sold.
Each year, Groupe SEB publishes a detailed assessment of its emissions on the 3 scopes, as well as the associated methodology, in the Universal Registration Document which can be downloaded from the Financial Information and Presentations page of this site.
To step up its contribution to the fight against global warming, in 2016 Groupe SEB joined the Science Based Targets (SBT) initiative launched by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) alongside the UN Global Compact, the WRI (World Resources Institute) and the CDP(Carbon Disclosure Project). It encourages major global companies to align their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets with the IPCC's recommendation to contain the rise in global average temperature to below 2°C by the end of the century.
The Group has set up a specific governance structure to achieve these objectives and specify the path to be followed:
Reducing the energy consumption of sites through an optimisation approach: energy audits, setting up an energy indicator (kWh/unit produced) at the industrial management level, adjusting processes, choosing the least carbon-intensive energy sources, etc; Increasing the proportion of renewable energy: on-site energy production using photovoltaic panels, purchase of green energy via Power Purchase Agreements (long-term contracts for the purchase of green energy) or renewable energy certificates; as a last resort: sequestering residual greenhouse gas emissions by supporting projects to restore ecosystems, mainly forests, with a biodiversity preservation label.
Product reparability, The use of recycled materials, Raising consumer awareness of the correct conditions for using products, Reducing the energy consumption of products (eco-design and new technologies).
Groupe SEB's eco-design policy aims to reduce the environmental footprint of products throughout their life cycle. Initiated in 2003, it has been steadily strengthened ever since.
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The Group’s eco-design policy includes product packaging. It is aimed at ensuring that it correctly fulfills its protective, storage, transport, information and handling functions while minimizing its environmental impact.
To reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with our production, we introduced a global environmental management system in 2003. Today, all our sites are certified to the ISO 14 001 "Environmental Management" standard.
The transport of products, as well as the raw materials and components used to manufacture them, is one of the sources of greenhouse gas emissions that Groupe SEB is committed to reducing.
For a number of years now, the Group has been committed to reducing as far as possible the pressure its activities exert on the environment and to promoting biodiversity through specific actions (conservation gardens, wildlife shelters, maintenance of wetlands, etc.).
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