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

The following examples illustrate this: optimization of the filling of packaging and trucks within the P central Europe scope was extended to Romania, Turkey and Morocco, which has avoided placing nearly 39,800 trucks on the roads, representing 1.7% of upstream transport units; the mode change towards trains and ferries for flows between P France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Romania, Turkey, Morocco and Russia (Moscow factory), which has avoided using about 61,000 trucks, representing 2.6% of all upstream transport units; lastly, for the transport and distribution of new vehicles, a P multi-modal transfer towards the train between France, Spain, Romania, Morocco and India, which has avoided the use of about 22,300 trucks, representing 2.1% of all downstream transport units. All of these actions have avoided emitting 140,500 tons of CO 2 (cumulative over the period 2017-2019). Renault is one of the members of the Environment and Transport Commission within the AUTF (Association of Freight Transportation Users). As such, the Group has organized multi-company workshops to identify environmental best practices and joint actions to be taken. Renault was one of the first signatories of ADEME’s FRET21 Charter in 2015, the purpose of which was to ensure that shippers reduce the CO 2 emissions of their transport methods. By end-2017, Renault had met its three-year FRET21 commitment, and was the leading contributor in terms of emissions savings. The Group has since renewed this commitment with a three-year plan covering the period 2018-2020. In 2019 ADEME awarded the Group its EVE trophy (voluntary environmental commitments – transport and logistics) for most progress in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation of goods for its business. In the context of its environmental strategy aiming to reduce its carbon footprint and that of its supply chain, in 2018 Groupe Renault announced the signature of a partnership with the start-up NEOLINE, a designer and operator of cargo ships using sails. This project plans the construction of two wind-powered cargo ships by 2021, with the aim of commissioning in 2021-2022 on a pilot route which will connect St-Nazaire, the East Coast of the United States and Saint-Pierre & Miquelon. This shipowner project has culminated in the design of a commercial demonstrator capable of reducing CO 2 emissions by up to 90% compared to a traditional cargo ship on an equivalent voyage, mainly using wind propulsion associated with a cost-cutting speed and optimization of the energy mix. Finally, after Renault and Nissan’s Supply Chain departments were consolidated under a single entity in 2014, best practices are shared within the Alliance and both companies have aligned their annual objectives for the reduction of transport-related CO 2 emissions.

Manufacturing

The emissions reduction strategy is largely based on a reduction in energy consumption and the development of renewable forms of energy, since over 90% of the sites’ emissions are the result of energy consumption. This strategy, seen in both continuous improvements and in breakthrough actions, is based on four components: greenhouse gas

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management of energy consumption outside production periods P energy. A specific system is in place to completely shut down machines and general facilities whenever possible outside production periods; convergence toward the best organizational and technical P practices identified. Ventilation and operating conditions (temperature and humidity) have been optimized in paint shops, the most energy-hungry areas in vehicle body assembly plants. Equipment downtime and restart has also been optimized to minimize consumption. Specific actions are also applied to other production processes, such as the detection and handling of compressed air leaks or the optimization of the cooling of the welding guns used in sheet metal work; increase the energy efficiency of processes, particularly by P experimenting energy recovery solutions such as installing heat exchangers at exit doors of paint drying ovens and decentralizing energy consumption to limit heat losses on the network; develop renewable energies and substitutes for fossil energies, as P shown by the introduction of biomass boilers in Tangiers (Morocco), Curitiba (Brazil) et Moscow (Russia), the use of electricity from renewable sources on the Curitiba (99.9% of supplies in 2019) and Tangiers sites (see “Eco-design of industrial processes” under section 2.3.2.B), the use of steam generated by the burning of industrial waste at the Sandouville (France) and Busan (South Korea) plants, and the 86 hectares of solar panels installed in the Group’s French, Spanish and Korean plants (see inset below) in partnership with third-party investors. 86 hectares of solar panels on the Group’s sites The solar panels installed on Renault sites throughout the world (in France, Spain and South Korea) cover a total surface area of 86ha, or the equivalent of nearly 120 soccer fields. In 2019, the 94 MW of fully renewable electricity that they generate enabled the prevention of nearly 30,000 metric tons of CO 2 emissions.

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