In terms of sustainability, what challenges is OPmobility facing, specifically when it comes to Purchasing? A. C. Our main challenge lies in ensuring a balance between cost-effective and sustainable purchasing. D. D. There are several key issues. Firstly, we must reduce our expenditure, which is a fairly conventional challenge. However, this requires us to be increasingly efficient and make changes to the organization to improve our performance at a Group level. The second issue is regulation, with the advent of the CSRD (4) and the CS3D (5) which will soon come into force in Europe. The CSRD is an opportunity for us to demonstrate our commitment to CSR with extra-financial reporting, based on increasingly detailed and wide-ranging information. A. C. When it comes to sustainability, we are now seeing much more awareness and a stronger desire to take action, but it is important that we all understand the issues in our own roles and that we focus on new sustainability challenges. A growing industrial group’s environmental policy must strike a subtle balance between ecology and economy, two concepts that are often seen as mutually exclusive, when they are in fact inseparable and complementary. For instance, improving our energy efficiency by 20% does not just have environmental benefits: it also generates significant financial savings. As I often say, the most affordable energy is the energy we do not use! OPmobility has committed to becoming carbon neutral for its scopes 1 and 2 emissions in 2025. What initiatives have been implemented to achieve this? D. D. We reduced our scopes 1 and 2 CO2 emissions from 531 ktCO2e in 2019 to 447 ktCO2e in 2024, while continuing to grow. This year, we will achieve carbon neutrality because of our efforts and by purchasing carbon credits to offset residual emissions, particularly those linked to gas. How is the Group getting on with its objectives for upstream scope 3 emissions? A. C. Our scope 3 emissions have decreased by 30% since 2019. This is primarily because of the electrification of the vehicles equipped by OPmobility. Working closely with our suppliers, we have a structured and progressive approach to upstream scope 3 emissions. In 2021, we announced our ambitious goals and developed a detailed roadmap. In 2022, we assessed the maturity of our suppliers’ environmental performance. In 2023, we stepped up our efforts to raise our suppliers’ awareness of the importance of these issues and share best practices. In 2024, we encouraged positive initiatives from our suppliers and worked to raise the profile of our most committed partners. Today, our biggest challenge is to effectively incorporate the impact of CO2 from the outset of the purchasing process, while defining the precise value we want to attribute to it. “The Exterior & Lighting Business Group accounts for a significant share of the Group’s carbon footprint, both in terms of scopes 1 and 2 emissions, primarily because of its electricity consumption, but also because of the gas used for the furnaces and ovens of its sites’ paint lines, and in terms of scope 3 emissions. The aerodynamic design of the parts that Exterior supplies, particularly bumpers and tailgates, has a major impact on a vehicle’s fuel consumption during its lifetime. To achieve the Group’s decarbonization objectives, we are intensifying our efforts with various initiatives, including obtaining ISO 50 001 certification to address our plants’ energy management and participation in the Group’s ‘Energy Challenge’, which encourages our network to reduce its energy consumption. Lastly, we are actively exploring the reuse of plastics from end-of-life vehicles, as part of the circular economy.” FERNANDO ALVES HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment) & Sustainability Director, Exterior & Lighting Business Group, OPmobility (1) Amandine Chaffois was appointed Vice President of OP’nSoft as of March 1, 2025. Carole Brinati will succeed her. (2) PPAs: Power Purchasing Agreements – long-term agreements to supply green electricity, produced by renewable energy sources. (3) VPPAs: Virtual Power Purchasing Agreements – financial contracts between an energy buyer and a renewable energy project. (4) CSRD: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. (5) CS3D: Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
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