Saint Gobain - Registration document 2016

2 ONE AMBITION: TO IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL 2. Creating great living places

2.2.1

Promoting sustainable construction

varied interventions a building experiences during its lifetime. solutions in buildings, specifically by improving their performance and simplifying their installation. The Group is also committed to training professionals to ensure that energy renovation is better integrated into the multiple and Saint-Gobain is committed to promoting energy efficiency With this in mind, Saint-Gobain promotes in-depth energy renovation, in stages, and implementation of a renovation process based on a “renovation passport”, identifying the tasks to be completed and scheduling them over time, and optimizing them by incorporating energy efficiency into the renovation work (for example, during alterations or renovations of roofs or façades). Backing for renovation works must be a priority, to optimize the complementary use of the available, accessible technical solutions, both passive (insulation and insulation glazing) and active. Away from Europe, the Group also lends support to energy efficiency and its place in national policies. In emerging countries, the potential for energy efficiency is concentrated in new buildings. Saint-Gobain directs its efforts to highlighting for stakeholders the benefits of energy efficiency, and the effective implementation of ambitious regulations. the existing building stock is critical to controlling the long-term effects of climate change. The Group seeks to minimize its negative impacts and to continue to increase its positive contribution, aware that its activities inevitably have environmental, social and economic impacts. Controlling greenhouse gas emissions and global energy consumption are indispensable conditions for keeping global warming to below 2°C. Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings through new building and thermal renovation of The innovative solutions developed by the Group to improve building energy efficiency help to reduce both the negative impacts of construction on the climate, and users’ energy bills. They have an important role to play in combating climate change, therefore: by reducing energy needs, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, Saint-Gobain has implemented an energy policy and ambitious goals for reducing the environmental impact of its production and logistics operations. The benefits provided by the Group’s thermal insulation and insulation glazing, in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, significantly exceed their production-related emissions (1) . To shine a spotlight on this contribution, in 2015, in partnership with the accounting firm EY, Saint-Gobain developed a methodology to estimate greenhouse gas emissions saved by using its insulation solutions (2) in Europe (3) . The Group’s positive contribution to 2.2.2 climate challenges

Collaboration with Green Building Councils a) (GBC) Saint-Gobain is convinced that the transition to sustainable built environment involves the application of new partnership and co-development relationships. Contributions to this transition should come from all sustainable construction businesses and centers of expertise. professionals and players. The GBC network offers a fast path for deployment of sustainable construction technologies and dissemination of good practices, particularly via education for market players. For Saint-Gobain, market transformation means changing the whole of the construction market value chain, and the GBCs are instrumental in this. They can create a collective momentum involving the various stakeholders (investors, builders, manufacturers, architects, etc.). This desire to move the construction market towards more sustainable building is widely shared with the GBCs, a global network of national associations of construction market member of 37 local GBCs worldwide and of the European network of GBCs (ERN), and sits on the Corporate Advisory Board of the World Green Building Council (WGBC). In 2016, Saint-Gobain provided active support for a number of WGBC campaigns, including: can make an active contribution to their work. The Group is a The geographical approach of the GBCs means that every one of Saint-Gobain’s national, regional and international units Better Places for People, which promotes quantification ‹ and understanding of the positive impacts of sustainable buildings on health and well-being; Europe’s existing building stock. BuildUpon, a project to support strategies for renovating ‹ topics to do with sustainable construction, with Pierre André de Chalendar being awarded the World GBC’s David Gottfried prize. This award, created in 2011, rewards personalities who have made a unique, innovative and entrepreneurial contribution to the global cause of sustainable building development. The Group won recognition in 2016 for its commitment to Promotion of building energy efficiency b) energy efficiency lies in speeding up the roll-out of existing solutions in new buildings, and especially in existing buildings. Given their weight in energy consumption (40%) and In Europe and other developed countries, the challenge of greenhouse gas emissions (35%), European building stock has to occupy a central position in European energy and climate policies. An ambitious political framework can remove technical as well as financial obstacles to the move to an efficient, comfortable and low-energy built environment.

The term "production-related emissions" refers to emissions related to the entire life cycle (from the extraction of raw materials to the end of life, (1) including manufacturing, transport and use). Thermal insulation (glass wool, stone wool, PSE) and insulated glazing (double and triple layered glazing). (2) European Union of 28, Norway, Switzerland. (3)

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