EDF / 2020 Universal Registration Document

3 NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Carbon neutrality and the climate

Reducing emissions from combustion of gas sold due to the increased injection ● rate of biogas (and potentially hydrogen) into domestic gas networks across Europe; Greening (use of renewable energy PPA’s) of purchases of electricity for sale to ● end customers in countries where electricity has a high carbon intensity ( e.g. North America). Ramping up efforts to make our production activities carbon-free Closing the last coal-fired power plants operated by the Group in France and the ● United Kingdom; Achieving carbon neutrality goals of island regions, replacing oil used by existing ● fossil fuel-fired facilities with lower-carbon fuels (liquid biomass and potentially gas); Greening of Group-managed heat networks (biomass, free heat recovery, ● geothermal and ocean thermal energy conversion); Internationally, transferring combined cycle plants in Norte Fluminense and Phu ● My following expiry of “Build-Operate-Transfer” periods and applying strict development criteria to all new combined cycle projects; Reducing upstream fuel cycle (extraction, processing, transport) emissions as a ● direct result of falling use of fossil fuels (production and sale of electricity) by the Group. Transforming our own practices Managing Group facility energy use: ● Fully electrifying the EDF group’s light vehicle fleet in accordance with the EV 100 ● commitment; Reducing emissions from employee travel, particularly in view of the roll-out of ● EDF group’s new travel policy; Measures to manage and reduce uncontained SF 6 emissions from electrical ● transmission and distribution systems as well as uncontained HFC emissions from air-conditioning units. This set of measures allows the EDF group to secure its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction trajectory, in line with its commitments. The following sections provide a more detailed description of the Group action plan’s most significant measures. Coal-fired power generation, currently 3.1.1.3.1 Since 2017, EDF group has been engaged in the "Powering Past Coal Alliance", which promotes the phasing out of coal in EU countries by 2030 and in the rest of the world by 2050 in the wake of the Paris Agreement. In 2019, EDF group went further and committed to stopping coal power generation by 2030 in all geographical zones. For more than 20 years, the Group has not settled for merely disinvesting from coal but has established itself as one of the electricity companies that decided on, implemented and supported the closure of the highest number of coal and oil units in Europe. Between 1995 and 2020, this saw EDF group permanently shut down more than 30 coal-fired units and 42 high-power oil-fired units in Europe, respectively accounting for 6.3 and 7.2GWe in withdrawn capacities, totalling 13.5GWe, i.e. the approximate total installed electrical capacity of a country like Bulgaria or Finland. This coal (and oil) phase-out policy resulted in reduction of the European electrical sector’s annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30MtCO 2 e. These closures were all backed up with measures to reassign employees within the Group and actions to develop new local economic activities (see section 3.4.3.2 “Redeployment and individual support”). The fossil fuel-fired power plant most recently shut down by the EDF group was the coal-fired plant at Cottam in the UK. This 2,000MWe power plant (4 coal-fired units) was permanently shut down in September 2019, representing a reduction of approx. 1.6MtCO 2 in the Group’s direct emissions compared to the previous year. representing 0.4% of the total power generation, to be reduced to 0 by 2030

The EDF group’s GHG report scope includes the following businesses and their subsidiaries, based in France and more than thirty other countries: EDF, EDF PEI, Dalkia, Edison, Enedis, Électricité de Strasbourg, EDF Trading North America, EDF Energy Services, EDF in the UK, Framatome, EDF Renewables, Norte Fluminense, MECO, Luminus, EDF China. The main companies not controlled by the EDF group and included in scope 3 of the Group GHG report are as follows: Shandong Zhonghua, Datang San Men Xia, Fuzhou, Sloe, Nam Theun, Sinop, Enercal, Électricité de Mayotte, Generadora Metropolitana, Elpedison and Ibiritermo. The emissions of companies not taken into account in the 2020 EDF group GHG report were considered to be non-significant as they account for significantly less than 5% of the emissions covered. 2020 GHG report summary 3.1.1.2.2 The following table presents trends in the Group’s GHG reports between 2018 and 2020.

EDF group greenhouse gas report (MtCO 2 e)

2020

2018

2019

Scope-1 emissions Scope-2 emissions Scope-3 emissions

36

33

28

0.5

0.3

0.3

111

119

107

The following table presents the 3 most significant scope-3 items:

2020

Significant scope-3 items (MtCO 2 e)

2018

2019

Emissions from electricity purchased and sold to end customers Emissions from gas sold to end customers Scope-1 and -2 emissions from minority investments

21

23

22

65

72

60

10

10

10

Further methodological details of this data are provided in section 3.7.2.3 “Further details of other environmental, social and societal data included in the non-financial performance statement”. The EDF group’s detailed GHG report is published on the EDF edf.fr . Scope-1 emissions fell by 16%. This fall was due, firstly, to the shutdown of various fossil fuel-fired facilities, including the Cottam coal-fired plant that closed at the end of 2019, and secondly, reduced operation of fossil fuel-fired facilities, particularly CCGs, due to the impact of the sanitary crisis on demand. Scope-3 emissions fell by 11%. This fall was mainly due to the fall in sales of gas to end customers, which accounted for nearly 56% of Group scope-3 emissions in 2020. Emission management measures 3.1.1.3 To achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals it set itself (see section 3.1.1.1 “Group commitments”), the EDF group implements action plans in line with the EDF group’s CAP 2030 strategy (see section 1.3 “Group strategy and goals”). This action plan is based on about 20 projects overseen by the Group’s Executive Committee and coordinated by the EDF group Carbon Neutrality Strategy project (see description of climate governance in section 3.1.3.1 “Governance bodies”). By 2030, and in line with the CAP 2030 projects, the main actions enabling the EDF group to achieve these emission targets covering all three scopes are as follows: Innovating by providing services and solutions for both customers and local authorities Promoting heat pumps and carbon-free heat to reduce demand for natural gas ● used for heating (residential customers, businesses and local authorities), in synergy with changing domestic regulations in countries designed to achieve carbon neutrality ( e.g. RE 2020 in France);

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