Groupe Renault - 2020 Universal Registration Document

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OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT GROUPE RENAULT: A COMPANY THAT ACTS RESPONSIBLY

The Tangiers body assembly plant in Morocco is equipped with the most advanced technologies available for recycling wastewater from the manufacturing process. Following the additional investments made in 2015 to increase the volume of industrial effluents recycled and thus keep pace with the increase in the site’s production rate, the volume of water saved amounted to nearly 280,000m 3 per year on average. The Tangiers site is the plant with the lowest external water abstraction ratio (at 1.4m 3 per vehicle produced in 2020) in accordance with the target assigned when it was founded.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the indicator of water consumption per vehicle produced, firstly because of the sharp drop in volumes that it has caused (the "heel" effect manifested by water consumption that is not strictly proportional to production volumes), and secondly because of unplanned shutdowns linked to certain periods of confinement, which took place in non-optimal conditions and therefore generated overconsumption (emptying of process baths that could not be kept stopped, cleaning/disinfection operations linked to prolonged stoppages of certain equipment such as air-cooling towers or hot water circuits). These negative effects have contributed to the non achievement of the 2020 objective of reducing water consumption per vehicle produced.

BREAKDOWN OF WATER SUPPLIES BY SOURCE

EXTERNAL WATER SUPPLY (√)

0.8%

2.5%

14,000

11,391

12,616 12,592

5

Internal recycling of industrial wastewater

Rainwater

4.7

4.5

10 , 690

12,000

3.9 4.0

10 , 679

4.1

4

10,000

3

8,000

6,000

2

33.0%

34.8%

4,000

Surface water (waterways, ponds, etc.)

Drinking water from external network

1

2,000

0

0

2018 2019 2020

2010 ...

2013

...

External water supply per vehicle (in m 3 /vehicle)

Total external water supply (x 1,000 m 3 )

18.7%

10.3%

External water supply corresponds to drinking water, industrial water, groundwater, surface water and rainwater networks. Indicator audited by the independent third party at a reasonable level (√) of assurance: total external water supplies for financial year 2020.

Ground water

Industrial water from external network

Scope: all manufacturing plants and the main Groupe Renault tertiary, logistics and engineering sites, excluding AVTOVAZ and excluding the RRG Commercial Network (reporting scope described in appendix 2.6.1.2).

Soil and water tables EFPD8a EFPD11d E. TOTAL SURFACE AREA FOR SITES AND IMPERVIOUS AREAS

2020 3,895 1,904 48.9%

2019 Change over 1 year

Total surface area (in ha) Impervious areas (in ha)

3,926 1,904 48,5%

-0.8%

0%

Impervious areas (as a% of the total surface area)

+0.8%

Soil and water tables are environments reconverted to other uses, as well as the Renault Retail Group (RRG) that can potentially allow pollution commercial network. Renault aims to maintain in-house skills in from past activities to come into prevention of soil pollution and remediation.

contact with targets to be protected (humans, natural environments, etc. ). Renau lt h as therefore implemented a policy to prevent pollution of these environments and, when past pollution is suspected, implements specific management strategies. This policy is

In 2020, the manufacturing sites, as well as the main engineering, logistics and head office sites of Groupe Renault (consolidated environmental scope), represented a total area of 3,895 hectares, of which 48.9% are impervious areas such as buildings, parking lots, roads, and paths. Total surface area and the proportion of impervious surfaces did not change significantly from the previous year, at constant scope.

SOIL

applied to all Group facilities presenting a potential pollution risk, i.e., operat iona l industrial facilities, former industrial facilities

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