2015 Activity and Sustainable Development Report5

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Raising employee awareness of sustainable development issues is one of the keys to the Group s strategy. It contributes to its success in selling energy efficiency

solutions, reducing its environmental footprint and promoting a responsible value chain.

THE ECODAYS PROGRAM was maintained in 2015. Organized since 2011

as an annual campaign, EcoDays has become an ongoing intranet platform available in 5 languages (French, English, German, Spanish and Chinese), that aims to raise awareness of environmental issues among Rexel employees, to inform them about the Group s policy and initiatives, and to encourage them to contribute to fighting climate change. To help them do so, the platform suggests a series of daily eco-friendly gestures, at work or at home: cycling or walking instead of driving, switching off the computer at night, reducing office heating during the winter, etc. Employees can log in to a personalized CO2 calculator that estimates the real impact of their eco-friendly gestures. In 2015, nearly 2,000 employees from 31 countries took part in EcoDays. They suggested more than 2,000 eco-friendly gestures that saved 210 tons of CO2, the equivalent of 210 round trips from Paris to New York. The Less CO2 on the Planet competition, organized by the Group for the first time this year, celebrated the most eco-friendly countries and employees. l

Raising employee awareness

COMMITTING TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE ENVIRONMENT