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SUSTAINABILITY AT MAIRE TECNIMONT
1.1 MAIRE TECNIMONT GROUP’S NEW SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY Starting from this year, Maire Tecnimont’s sustainability path is developing with a medium-long term vision and strategy, in line with the Group’s values and areas of excellence and with a particular drive and commitment to the energy transition. Several lines of action and a joint effort on several fronts – organizational, technological and cultural – will contribute to this challenging goal. Our organization counts 9,000 people spread across several continents. It has a valuable asset, and one that is indispensable to enable the energy transition: knowledge of the extraordinarily multi-layered potential of chemistry. Green chemistry can be used to recreate the molecules we have become used to producing with traditional fossil-based chemistry. We have figured out how to do this and are now very quickly developing a portfolio of enabling technologies together with our subsidiary NextChem. We are combining knowledge and skills within the Group to enrich our know-how even further, also in order to mitigate the climatic impact of traditional technologies and identify solutions that can help reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. We are working intensively on disseminating our knowledge and technological offer in the parts of the world where we are present. The effect of this is one that we see increasing day by day: the creation of demand for green chemistry and the energy transition. At organizational level, the Sustainability office has been strengthened, a technical CO2 task force is being set up, and project groups have been created for the various lines of action of the sustainability plan, which we are launching as these pages go to press. We have initiated significant internal stakeholder engagement, and are now implementing this externally. On the technological level, there is a great deal of activity in the research and development of our proprietary solutions, and those of which we are licensees. We are working on green platforms that symbiotically integrate diverse technologies such as those that define the “new” chemistry and integrated waste chemistry, which we will describe later in our Circular Green District Model. We are also launching projects aimed at improving the GHG emissions performance of traditional technologies. We are capitalizing on the efforts made in the area of digitalization in order to reap all its benefits, also in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of our activities. At a cultural and educational level, our work on research, open innovation and partnerships with universities are all geared towards providing know-how, tools, new minds and new ideas for the energy transition. Similarly, we are investing a lot of energy in promoting multi-stakeholder working groups, which are essential for pooling knowledge in order to create the basis on which to build a new sector and new skills. These think-tanks and cross-sector projects are 20
CREATING VALUE
GREEN CHEMISTRY CAN BE USED TO RECREATE THE MOLECULES WE HAVE BECOME USED TO PRODUCING WITH TRADITIONAL FOSSIL-BASED CHEMISTRY.
