Essilor, A Leader for Its Sustainable Water Management Performance

Friday, November 24 2017 | 00 h 00 min | News, Press Release

With its strong commitment to sustainable water stewardship, Essilor is featured as a global leader in CDP’s 2017 Global Water Report. The group’s “A” grade from the CDP places it on the 2017 Water A List, which recognizes the top 10% of companies having exhibited the largest corporate commitment to sustainable water management and security. This list includes 74 global companies out of the 674 companies that voluntarily disclosed their data on water management to the CDP across four levels: disclosure, awareness, management and leadership.

Through its global program “Reboost”, Essilor defines and rolls-out group performance standards and speeds up reductions in water and energy consumption. Alongside the company’s largest facilities, all regions are required to define their own water roadmap, a process that is overseen at group level.

Since the launch of the “Reboost” program, Essilor has made significant and continuous improvements by reducing its water usage in production sites by 40% since 2007, which corresponds to approximately 9.1 million m3. The Group’s 2020 sustainability roadmap has since set a new objective to reduce water use by 20% compared to 2015. The ‘Reboost’ program also promotes training and best practices sharing with external stakeholders and within the group based on a collaborative approach between different departments.

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