Extra-financial rating
Veolia Environnement's selection in sustainable development indexes.
Extra-financial rating provides the means of measuring the sustainable development performance of companies through their selection in specific stock exchange indexes.
The main evaluation areas are governance, management of human resources, environmental performance, ethics, human rights, customer care, supplier relations and the communication with civil society.
Veolia Environnement is listed in the main extra-financial indexes.
FTSE4Good
Veolia Environnement has been listed in the British FTSE4Good index since 2004. This index is composed of companies quoted in the FTSE Global Equity indexes and considered to have the highest performance in terms of sustainable development. Margins for improvement have been identified in terms of management of human rights and anticorruption procedures.
DJSI
In 2007, Veolia Environnement once again appears on the American DJSI World and Stoxx indexes, and was identified as the leader in the Water Utilities sector.
The Group improved its global score in 2007.
Its performance was underlined for its commitment to human resources, its social and environmental reporting,
its commitment to stakeholders and access to water.
Centre Français d'Information sur les Entreprises (CFIE)
(The French center for information on companies)
The Group was awarded first place in the 2007 French business classification for the quality of its social end environmental information.
Ethibel Sustainability Index (Vigeo)
Veolia Environnement is included in the Ethibel Sustainability Indexes, and has been since 2002.
The Ethibel Pioneer Index is composed of the shares of approximately 200 companies and the Ethibel Excellence Index is composed of the shares of around 280 companies quoted in Europe, North America and Pacific Asia.
These are companies with the best performance or with performances above the average for social and environmental matters, and which meet ethics criteria produced by the independent Forum Ethibel organization.
The Sustainabiliity Yearbook 2008
The Sustainability Yearbook 2008 is a classification of companies produced by the SAM rating agency in partnership with PricewaterhouseCooper, and rewards Veolia for its exceptional achievements in the field of sustainable development by granting it three awards :
SAM 2008 Leader in the Water Utilities Sector, SAM 2008 Sector Mover, and SAM 2008 Silver Class for good overall performance.
Our position with respect to the market
This table shows the size, complexity and diversity in which Veolia Environnement performs its activities.
Veolia Environnement |
Average of eight companies | |
Revenue |
32.628 billion euros |
Approx 20 times less |
Percentage of the Water |
33,39 % |
Approx 77% |
Number of countries |
68 |
Approx 3 times less |
Workforce |
319,502 |
Approx 38 times less |
Source : Utopies.
* This concerns eight other companies evaluated in the DJSI Water Utilities sector.
Note : data presented for Veolia Environnement is 2007 data; data presented for its peers is the most recent available information.
