Strategy
Since the start of the decade, Veolia Environnement has developed and implemented a strategy focused on a vision of a single environmental services business that integrates all its different activities and areas of technical expertise.
The definition of this strategy has primarily been driven by awareness of our municipal clients' expectations: we must be able to meet these expectations in terms of both services and commercial innovation across the full spectrum of the major issues in efficient urban management.
The rollout of this strategy has revealed the growing technical convergence between our activities.
Numerous issues that are essential to containing environmental impacts, controlling health risks and conserving scarce resources involve several of our divisions or call on their technical expertise.
View point
Our goal is to set minimum environmental and social standards for worldwide application. To mark the publication of the sustainable development report 2006, Henri Proglio, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Environnement, puts forward his views on the sustainable development challenges facing our Group.
Wastewater treatment plant in Shanghai (China).
Such is the case, for example, with combating Legionella, which can affect drinking water distribution networks as well as hot water systems; the treatment of sludge, a by-product from wastewater treatment, is dealt with by our waste management division but also requires expertise in energy; renewable energy is generated by both Veolia Energy (Dalkia) and Veolia Environmental Services; and, more generally, all issues relative to combating global warming directly concern all our divisions.
Both inside and outside the company, there is a growing vision of sustainable development and all that it entails in terms of understanding its comprehensive reach and the interaction between the various environmental, social and economic issues involved. This vision is gradually instilling a sense of coherence that is helping our integrated services strategy to be understood and accepted.
In each of our activities, we are striving to move toward a comprehensive service offering, as illustrated by the contracts presented in the following pages. This enables us to implement the full range of our expertise within a framework of balanced and transparent partnership with our clients, for the maximum benefit of the people served.
Our activities: challenges and responsibilities
- Veolia's activities in graphics
Veolia environnement's presence worlwide
- by revenue
- by employees number
- by revenue adjusted for purchasing power parity