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

2.5.4.2.2 Overall, renewable energy production at the Hermès sites was 2,582 MWh in 2023, compared with 2,485 MWh in 2022, i.e. +3.9%, representing approximately the annual energy consumption of nearly five leather goods workshops. Innovating in energy efficiency In the conception phase of new leather goods workshops, a special attention is paid to environmental impacts and more specifically, to Tanneries The tannery located in Italy increased its fleet of photovoltaic panels during the summer of 2023 by installing an additional 300 m² in order to increase the self‑production of electricity by 10%. In 2023, the site produced 141 MWh of electricity from its solar panels. The division is exploring the opportunity of installing photovoltaic panels on the roofs of buildings or car parks, as in Vivoin, where the potential rate for self‑production of electricity would be close to 20%. Textiles The solar panels installed on the roof of the Pierre‑Bénite car park generated 134.6 MWh, which were directly reused on the premises; those at the Bourgoin site generated 14.9 MWh, powering the charging terminals available to employees. With the two geothermal facilities installed on the division’s sites, as well as the conversion of fuel oil to pellets at Challes, 390 MWh of renewable energy were produced per year, which represents 1% of the energy consumption of the sector. Farms The photovoltaic panels installed since 2020 currently cover one‑fifth of the electricity needs for three Australian farms. They produced 533 MWh in 2023. The Australian division invested heavily to expand its fleet of photovoltaic panels by around 30,000 m². It will operate in a closed loop with the energy produced, stored and fed back into the virtual network that will link the sites together. This project will be rolled out between 2025 and 2027 on the sites concerned. The installation of photovoltaic panels is also being studied on the American farm. HMM At the Fundão plant in Portugal, photovoltaic panels have been installed on the roof and will be operational in 2024. In addition, the plant is studying the possibility of installing two wind turbines to increase and diversify its sources of renewable electricity. Logistics In the United States, the Dayton logistics centre in New Jersey has been equipped with photovoltaic panels on the roof since 2017, in order to produce the electrical energy required by the site. This centre received LEED Gold certification in 2018.

2.5.5 WASTE MANAGEMENT As a major aspect of environmental protection and societal responsibility, waste and discharge management means that each of the House’s métiers contributes to the overall effort to reduce the production of waste and discharges and to recycle or recover them. In particular, the Cristalleries Saint‑Louis took advantage of the installation of the new gas melting furnace, by implementing a heat recovery solution to provide additional heating to the museum installed on the site. This heat comes from the cooling water network for the furnace electrodes. The solution makes it possible to reduce the museum’s gas consumption by more than 40% over one year. Energy savings have also been made thanks to the in‑depth study of the operation of the “openers” (small furnaces for heating the molten crystal at workstations): it has made it possible to optimise operating times by choosing, depending on the facilities and their technologies, to shut down unused openers or put them “on standby” at a lower temperature. energy consumption. New production units are therefore built with future energy efficiency in mind. This anticipatory work is organised according to four areas of work, which are integral parts of the Harmonie standard: production of renewable energy: wherever possible, our projects include photovoltaic electricity production via the installation of solar panels on the roof (see § 2.5.3.2.1); s energy consumption in buildings: this parameter constitutes one of the main issues facing the new Leather Goods workshop technical programmes. As soon as a project is launched, various solutions are envisaged and thermal simulations are carried out by specialists from design firms commissioned for the project. The most suitable solution is selected from the results. For example, the Louviers and Sormonne Leather Goods workshops are E4C2 certified as part of the “energy + carbon -” standard. In addition, a bioclimatic approach has been favoured in the design, in particular with the orientation of buildings and roofs; s (1) management tools: as soon as a new Leather Goods workshop is put into operation, meters are positioned and dedicated software is set up to control energy consumption and the identification of possible drifts as accurately as possible; s new equipment that consumes less energy: the energy impact of equipment has been introduced as one of the decision‑making criteria of the equipment investment strategy, for example, in the Leather métier. As such, new equipment introduced in both new and existing Leather Goods workshops is more energy efficient than the old. This approach is carried out in partnership with suppliers. All of the Group’s other métiers benefit from feedback from this work carried out for leather goods workshops. s

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