Gaz de France's civic-minded approach

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In its commitment to sustainable development, Gaz de France has defined specific policies, set up dedicated control and monitoring tools and adapted its organisation.

The Group's overall sustainable development policy is based on different domain-specific policies: public service contract, environment policy, safety policies, etc. In developing this overall policy, the Group identifies, analyses and prioritises its stakeholders' needs and the challenges it faces. It then defines the types of relationship, the responses and measures to be implemented.

Different tools are employed in implementing and tracking the Group's sustainable development policy: the Sustainable Development Action Plan, the integrated Quality Safety Environment–Risk-management system, the sustainable development performance audit and the stakeholder reporting system.

In operational terms, the Group has set up a specific organisation to implement its sustainable development policy.

A role model approach

Since 2005, Gaz de France's commitment to social and environmental responsibility has been recognized on several occasions:

2005: the Group's sustainable development indicators are assigned the level of “reasonable certainty” (the same level as achieved in financial information)

2006:

Gaz de France joins the ASPI Eurozone® index, an index of the 120 listed companies in the Eurozone which perform best in terms of social and environmental responsibility.
Gaz de France is the French company that receives the second largest number of unsolicited references for its concern with sustainable development (source Baromètre Efficience).
The Group wins the 2005 Prize for the best sustainable development report, awarded by the Higher Council of Chartered Accountants, for the quality of its environmental and social information.

2007: Gaz de France is inducted into the CLI (Climate Disclosure Leadership Index), made up of the companies which are most effective in incorporating climate change into their business strategy.