Groupe Renault - 2020 Universal Registration Document

GROUPE RENAULT: A COMPANY THAT ACTS RESPONSIBLY

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF RENAULT ON APRIL 23, 2021

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

RENAULT AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

GROUPE RENAULT

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT

The Group also adopted a new framework, finalized in 2020: the eight environmental golden rules, associated with 50 key points, which will begin to be rolled out in 2021 (see Section 2.4.2.4 Environment ). 3. Each industrial project is monitored by a trio of project managers who ensure that the applicable regulatory requirements and the Group’s technical policies in terms of environmental protection and industrial hygiene, energy optimization and the prevention of fire and explosion risks are taken into account at every step. At any time during the project, it is thus possible to check and validate the proper consideration of HSE expectations and to sound the alert in the event of deviation in order to define appropriate action plans. These technical business policies are based on the state of the art as well as the most stringent international regulatory or normative frameworks (French legislation on installations classified for environmental protection, the European industrial emissions directive (IED) and REACH regulation, the ATEX directive, America’s NFPA fire protection standards, 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. Eco-design of industrial processes

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: an expert system called Écorisques, available worldwide in the P main languages used within the Group. The system determines and 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 2.2.3.C.b); a process to monitor and track compliance with national and EU P environmental legislation; a documentary database of Environmental standards and best P practices, accessible from any Group site.

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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 built in emerging countries in recent years, 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 2.2.3.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 86,000 metric tons of CO 2 was avoided in 2020.

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-2020, this equates to electricity savings of nearly 100,000 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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