Groupe Renault - 2020 Universal Registration Document

184 GROUPE RENAULT I UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2020 Find out more at group.renault.com 02 OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT GROUPE RENAULT: A COMPANY THAT ACTS RESPONSIBLY The Tangiers body assembly plant in Morocco is equipped with the most advanced technologies available for recycling wastewater from the manufacturing process. Following the additional investments made in 2015 to increase the volume of industrial effluents recycled and thus keep pace with the increase in the site’s production rate, the volume of water saved amounted to nearly 280,000m 3 per year on average. The Tangiers site is the plant with the lowest external water abstraction ratio (at 1.4m 3 per vehicle produced in 2020) in accordance with the target assigned when it was founded. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the indicator of water consumption per vehicle produced, firstly because of the sharp drop in volumes that it has caused (the "heel" effect manifested by water consumption that is not strictly proportional to production volumes), and secondly because of unplanned shutdowns linked to certain periods of confinement, which took place in non-optimal conditions and therefore generated overconsumption (emptying of process baths that could not be kept stopped, cleaning/disinfection operations linked to prolonged stoppages of certain equipment such as air-cooling towers or hot water circuits). These negative effects have contributed to the non achievement of the 2020 objective of reducing water consumption per vehicle produced. BREAKDOWN OF WATER SUPPLIES BY SOURCE 2.5% 34.8% 10.3% 18.7% 33.0% 0.8% Industrial water from external network Ground water Drinking water from external network Rainwater Internal recycling of industrial wastewater Surface water (waterways, ponds, etc.) Scope: all manufacturing plants and the main Groupe Renault tertiary, logistics and engineering sites, excluding AVTOVAZ and excluding the RRG Commercial Network (reporting scope described in appendix 2.6.1.2). EXTERNAL WATER SUPPLY (√) 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 2013 2010 ... ... 2018 2019 2020 0 2 1 4 3 5 4.1 4.5 3.9 4.0 4.7 External water supply per vehicle (in m 3 /vehicle) Total external water supply (x 1,000 m 3 ) 10 , 690 11,391 12,616 12,592 10 , 679 External water supply corresponds to drinking water, industrial water, groundwater, surface water and rainwater networks. Indicator audited by the independent third party at a reasonable level (√) of assurance: total external water supplies for financial year 2020. Soil and water tables EFPD8a EFPD11d E. TOTAL SURFACE AREA FOR SITES AND IMPERVIOUS AREAS 2020 2019 Change over 1 year Total surface area (in ha) 3,895 3,926 -0.8% Impervious areas (in ha) 1,904 1,904 0% Impervious areas (as a% of the total surface area) 48.9% 48,5% +0.8% SOIL Soil and water tables are environments reconverted to other uses, as well as the Renault Retail Group (RRG) that can potentially allow pollution commercial network. Renault aims to maintain in-house skills in from past activities to come into prevention of soil pollution and remediation. contact with targets to be protected (humans, natural environments, etc. ). Renau lt h as therefore implemented a policy to prevent pollution of these environments and, when past pollution is suspected, implements specific management strategies. This policy is applied to all Group facilities presenting a potential pollution risk, i.e., operat iona l industrial facilities, former industrial facilities In 2020, the manufacturing sites, as well as the main engineering, logistics and head office sites of Groupe Renault (consolidated environmental scope), represented a total area of 3,895 hectares, of which 48.9% are impervious areas such as buildings, parking lots, roads, and paths. Total surface area and the proportion of impervious surfaces did not change significantly from the previous year, at constant scope.