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Commitments

A Pragmatic, Forward-looking Policy

Sustainable development has long been a concern for BOURBON. Quality as applied to relations with customers and partners, quality as applied to human resources and management, control over risks and respect for the environment, quality as applied to governance and organization…All these areas are crucial for BOURBON's future.

Today, the group is expanding its policy and formalizing its practices in this area by approaching sustainable development in a pragmatic, progressive and measurable way.

15 concrete, measurable actions by the year 2012

In 2007, BOURBON appointed a working group in charge of developing a sustainable development policy suited to its activities by defining priority issues and measures to be taken:
Three linchpins were defined in terms of development::

• Economic fairness,
• Social responsibility,
• Environmental sustainability.

For each of these linchpins, a major project is selected every year.
Thus, in 2012, the group will have completed 15 concrete, measurable projects.

In 2008, the group accomplished the following:

• Specified and documented the elements identified as being related to sustainable development according to the three linchpins;
• Defined a measurement and reporting system;
• Educated stakeholders, starting with the workforce;
• Created and maintained an internal network of correspondents.

This step was taken internally by the person in charge of sustainable development, in coordination with the QHSE organization under the control of the Executive Committee.

Initial Results

1 – Development that is economically fair

• Objective 2008: increase the group's contribution to the development of emerging countries.
• Result: A program of solidarity was initiated in Nigeria, where BOURBON, through its subsidiary Bourbon Interoil, has been active for eight years and where it employs around 500 people.

2 – Development that is socially responsible

• Objective 2008: Continue to promote diversity at BOURBON.
• Result: A diversity board was established. Made up of men and women representative of the group's cultural diversity it meets twice a year and plays an advisory role with the Executive Committee to which it proposes projects supporting this diversity.

3 – Development that is environmentally sustainable

• Objective 2008: reduce by 20% the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2012.
• Result: a carbone balance was made of the fleet, which accounts for most of the group's CO2 emission. This is the point of departure for BOURBON's fight against climate change!