Bureau Veritas

Company Information

Bureau Veritas is a publicly listed company, specialised in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. It is headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. The Group’s business involves inspecting, testing, auditing or certifying products, assets (such as buildings, industrial infrastructure, equipment and ships) and management systems (particularly against ISO standards) based on regulatory or voluntarily adopted standards. In 2021, the group reported a total of 80,000 employees working in 140 countries and a revenue of 5 billion Euro.*

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Sustainability Mission

Sustainability has been at the core of Bureau Veritas business for almost 200 years, leveraging our expertise in health, safety, quality and environmental protection. Our mission is to Shape a World of Trust by ensuring Responsible Progress. We aim to Shape a Better World demonstrating consistency by exercising particular rigor regarding our own impact on people and planet. For Climate, we committed to reduce consistently our GHG emissions in all our operations. We are also supporting our clients on their journey towards more sustainable business and a more sustainable world with our BV Green Line of services and solutions.

Our progress towards decarbonization

GHG Emissions

Our actions – the Pathway

• Bureau Veritas has a target to reduce intensity of scopes 1, 2 and 3 CO2e emissions 18% per unit FTE employee by 2025 from a base year of 2020. This is a year-on-year reduction rate of 3.6% per unit FTE employee over the next 4 years

Pledge: Have a short-medium term GHG emissions reduction target (scope 1+2) with a 2.1% year-on-year reduction at a minimum

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (28/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

Governance & Strategy

North Star

• Bureau Veritas has a publicly available 1.5°C aligned low-carbon transition plan

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (28/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

How we want to achieve this – our roadmap

• Publicly disclose climate and environmental data to investors and customers through a public platform
• Have board-level oversight of climate-related issues
• Have a process for identifying, assessing, and responding to climate-related risks and opportunities
• Have an employee engagement strategy to support and contribute to achieving the company's climate and environmental goals

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (28/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

Buildings

Our actions – the Pathway

• Have an initiative in place to drive GHG emissions reduction through energy efficiency in buildings

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (28/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022