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Environmental management and performance
Environmental management and performance
This environmental indicators report is based on the obligations and
recommendations set out in the French New Economic Regulations
Law of May 15, 2001 and decree No. 2002-221 of February 20, 2002,
amended by decree No. 2007-431 of March 27, 2007.
Our planet faces major ecological challenges, one of the most
prominent of which concerns the threat of climate change. Mounting
collective awareness of the urgent need for environmental action
prompted many initiatives in 2007, some with a very direct bearing
on the automotive industry.
One international initiative in 2007 was a report on voluntary
undertakings from automakers to bring down average vehicle CO2 emissions to 140 g per km – by 2008 for E uropean makers and by
2009 for Japanese and Korean makers. A forthcoming E uropean
directive was also drafted, to specify CO emission thresholds
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for new vehicles on the basis of vehicle weight and to impose
1. Environmental strategy and performance management
1.1. Valeo and world environmental
challenges
Like other automotive equipment suppliers, Valeo faces three
main environmental challenges: (i) energy consumption and
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financial penalties on manufacturers who fail to comply with these
thresholds.
Compared to other types of industrial plant, a Valeo site has a fairly
low environmental impact, emitting a thousand times less CO than 2
a steelworks and 400 times less than a refinery, for example.
On the other hand, transport is responsible for around a quarter of
CO emissions worldwide.
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This section provides an analysis of Valeo’s undertakings and
performance in terms of protecting the environment and natural
resources – two issues that underpin the very concept of sustainable
development. Though it focuses primarily on production sites, it
also examines environmental impact from a product lifecycle angle,
covering the design, manufacture, use and disposal of Valeo’s
products.
related emissions (including the CO emitted by motor vehicles);
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(ii) consumption of natural resources; and (iii) use of hazardous
substances. These challenges apply to the design of Valeo products,
and to upstream production and transport phases.
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