Hermès // CSR Extract 2023

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND NON ‑ FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE THE PLANET: ENVIRONMENT

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE HSI’s CSR programme is structured around four pillars broken down into 30 initiatives aligned with the Group’s sustainable development framework. The four pillars make it possible to structure and manage the programme consistently on a daily basis:

Gouvernance

Policy & Guidelines

• Programme structure • Sponsor • Teams & Network • Comitology

• Responsible IT • Life cycle analysis • Responsible purchasing • Frugality

• Watch • Budget

Governance; 1. Policy & Guidelines; 2. Transformation; 3. Change management. 4.

• Eco-design • Accessibility

The 30 initiatives are the result of a materiality analysis of responsible IT issues. This exercise enabled the identification of operational projects to be launched to carry out concrete actions on the following topics: Strategy, Certification, KPI, Carbon Footprint, Life Cycle, Responsible purchasing, Frugality, Accessibility and Eco‑design. For each of these initiatives, a document outlining the definitions, best practices and associated HSI guidelines is drafted in order to provide clear and self‑supporting “implementation kits”.

Transformation

Change

• Collaboration with other entities • Communication

• Tools (benchmarks and catalogues) • 30 initiatives • Footprint calculation

• Awareness • Education

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Life cycle analysis

Responsible purchasing

Manage the life cycle of equipment in the most virtuous way, by combining an increase in lifetime and the proper management of end-of-life.

Internally and from suppliers, implement a responsible IT purchasing policy from a socio-environmental point of view.

Guidelines

Frugality

Accessibility Have accessible, distinct, usable and comprehensible digital services within HSI.

Eco-design Design digital services within HSI that are as close as possible to needs and have a controlled socio-environmental impact.

Provide an information system and equipment that meets needs for sober and efficient consumption.

teams concerned and to ensure their long‑term involvement, a series of committees was organised to cover topics relating to expertise ( e.g.: responsible digital purchasing), regions (with specific cultural issues), or specific functions. The list of committees already in place is presented below:

They will be rolled out between 2024 and 2026 with the following objectives: obtain Responsible IT certification from the Institut du Numérique Responsable at the end of 2024; s drafting of a responsible IT purchasing policy, implementation of socio‑environmental criteria in supplier calls for tenders and creation of an IT supplier maturity assessment grid; s drafting of an equipment end‑of‑life management policy; s launch of a global awareness campaign for all House employees and an “expert” training campaign for key HSI players. s

TYPES OF COMMITTEES IN THE HSI CSR PROGRAMME

With other Group departments

Dedicated committee with the Group sustainable development department

Responsible Digital Purchasing Committee

PROGRAMME GOVERNANCE Implementation of a dynamic governance process

HSI CSR

SDD

HSI CSR Purchasing

At HSI level

With subsidiaries

A governance process has been defined to formalise the participation of key players in the House’s priorities. In order to bring the subject of responsible IT to life, maintain a good level of mobilisation of the

One committee per subsidiary

HSI CSR Committee

HSI CSR Sponsor

HSI CSR Subsidiaries

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