BIC - 2019 Universal Registration Document

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Environmental responsibility concerning our operations [NFPS]

3.3.1.5

Results of actions to reduce the

a 0.58% drop in the total quantity of direct and indirect (scopes ● 1 and 2) GHG emissions, in particular due to variations in national emission factors (scope 2), which fell for certain countries; a 22% drop in market-based emissions due to the Group’s ● increased use of renewable electricity; a 10% increase in GHG emissions related to purchases of raw ● materials due to an increase in purchases of certain metals and/or an update of the emission factors related to the production of certain raw materials; a 7.6% decrease in emissions related to intra-company ● transport due to update of emission factors related to each type of transport, but also to reduction of air freight distances

contribution to climate change  [NFPS] Between 2018 and 2019, within the perimeter of its industrial sites and main offices, the Group’s performance regarding GHG emissions, both direct and indirect (scopes 1 and 2) as well as from the purchase of materials and transport (scope 3), was as follows: a 5.44% decrease in direct (scope 1) GHG emissions from the ● reduction of combustion of fossil fuels, mostly natural gas and fuel oil used primarily for heating buildings; a 0.04% drop in indirect (scope 2) GHG emissions from the ● production of electricity consumed by the Group’s industrial sites;

ANNUAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION NORMALIZED TO BIC GROUP PRODUCTION – IN GIGAJOULES/TON

SHARE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY – AS %OF TOTAL CONSUMPTION – BIC GROUP

12.59

12.14

11.98

80%

76%

68%

24% 23%

2019

2017

2018

2019 2025 2018 2017

2016

BREAKDOWNOF BIC GROUP ENERGY CONSUMPTION

ANNUAL DIRECT AND INDIRECT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (SCOPES 1 AND 2) LOCATION-BASED ANDMARKET-BASED – IN TONS OF CO 2 EQUIVALENT – BIC GROUP

15% 1%

13% <1%

15% <1%

102,681

98,283

97,711

68,524

58,646

85%

86%

84%

45,827

2019

2017

2018

2019

2017

2018

Fuel oil

Market-based Location-based

Electricity Gas

90

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