Groupe Renault - 2019 Universal Registration Document

RENAULT: A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF RENAULT ON APRIL 24, 2020

GROUPE RENAULT

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

RENAULT AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ENVIRONMENT

For environmental management and the handling of chemicals, the sites can also rely on the availability of standardized tools managed by expert functions. These tools include: a worldwide Écorisques expert system available in the main P languages used within the Group. The system ranks the environmental impact from activities and potential hazards in relation to the plants’ chemical risk and prioritizes them in the plants’ environmental action plan; a reporting system for environmental impacts and energy P consumption (R2E); a CHEMIS database (Chemical Information System), available in P the main languages used within the Group, for the management of hazardous substances and the prevention of chemical risks. CHEMIS is the key tool in Groupe Renault chemical risk management process, which aims, from both environmental and health standpoints, to introduce chemicals safely, to prevent the risks associated with their use, and to anticipate technological and regulatory changes (see 2.3.3.C.b); a process to monitor and track compliance with national and EU P environmental legislation; a documentary database of Energy & Health, Safety, Environment P (E&HSE) standards and best practices, accessible from any Group site.

Eco-design of industrial processes 3. Each industrial project is monitored by an Energy & Health, Safety, Environment project manager, who ensures that the applicable regulatory requirements and Group technical policies (or Technical Rules) in respect of environmental protection, energy efficiency, industrial hygiene, and the prevention of fire and explosion risks are taken into account for each project milestone. These E&HSE Technical Rules are based on the state of the art as well as the most stringent international regulatory or normative frameworks (The European Union’s REACH regulation, ATEX directive, French legislation on facilities classified for environmental protection, US NFPA standards for fire protection, etc. ) and are updated regularly. To complement this shared base of minimum requirements applicable to all Group sites, breakthrough technologies may be introduced at certain sites or projects according to constraints or opportunities related to the local environment, as illustrated by the examples below.

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Plants eco-designed to respect their local environment As a result of the Group’s international expansion, new plants have been developed in recent years in emerging countries, particularly in North Africa and Asia, in order to take advantage of dynamic local markets. The design of each of these facilities has benefited from Group best practices and the latest technological advances in the environmental field. It takes into account the specific local environmental constraints and sensitivities, identified by an impact study at the outset of the project. For example, the plants of Tangiers in Morocco (2012) and Chennai in India (Renault-Nissan, 2010), two countries subject to water stress, use the most advanced technologies to recycle all industrial wastewater, such that no industrial wastewater is discharged into the environment and external water supply requirements are reduced to a strict minimum (see 2.3.3.D). The Tangiers site is also equipped with a biomass boiler fueled by local agricultural waste (waste from the production of olive oil and from wood chippings, in particular from the site’s packaging waste). As the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) provides the plant with electricity produced from entirely renewable sources, 92% of the plant’s energy needs are as a result met by renewable sources, meaning that the emission of more than 100,000 metric tons of CO 2 each year is avoided. The plant, which Renault and its partner Dongfeng opened in 2016 in Wuhan, China, is also equipped with the latest energy-efficiency technology, including LED lighting, recovery of thermal energy from the air discharged to the atmosphere and centralized management of energy-intensive equipment. It also recycles 40% of its industrial effluents for its own internal use (restrooms, watering, etc. ) and uses water-soluble paints.

In addition to new plants, applying eco-design to manufacturing processes can also benefit existing facilities. Since 2015, Groupe Renault has therefore been conducting the widespread deployment of LED lighting to replace industrial lighting on a number of its sites (see map below). The reduction in electricity use through the use of LED lighting can reach 65% compared with the technology it replaces. For the whole of the Europe scope covered at end-2019, this equates to electricity savings of nearly 89,000 MWh for each full year.

Anticipating industrial, regulatory and environmental 4. developments The E&HSE (Energy & Health, Safety, Environment) master plans launched in 2002 describe the situation at each site and how it is likely to evolve over the next 10 years, factoring in external constraints such as the ecological sensitivity of the environment and future regulatory requirements. They contribute to the dialog between industrial strategy, engineering, building project owners and the plants to ensure that each project contributes to reducing the environmental impact of sites.

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