The +1 collective, an initiative led by Veolia to accelerate ecological transformation, brought together key industry players for a morning of discussions. The objective: to co-create a new dialogue platform for the Group with its stakeholders, aimed at uniting voices and forces to address environmental and societal challenges.
On February 4th, the "+1, for ecology in action" collective gathered for a morning of exchanges on the theme: "Ecological Transformation: More Than Ever, Let's Unite Stakeholder Voices."
+1 is a unique dialogue and cooperation process involving Veolia stakeholders from various backgrounds (employees, clients, shareholders, society, planet) that aims to find a common path towards ecological transformation.
During collective sessions, participants envisioned the outlines of the Stakeholder Assembly and identified some of the themes it could address: adaptation to climate change, economic models, social justice, artificial intelligence, etc. This future dialogue platform will connect and strengthen Veolia's various stakeholder ecosystems, thereby uniting voices to better respond to societal and environmental challenges. As Fanny Demulier, Director of Purpose and Stakeholders, emphasized: "It's about the collective rather than the individual, bringing together rather than dividing, and above all, acting rather than enduring."
Veolia's conviction is that this transformation can only happen at the local level, with local elected officials, by mobilizing relevant stakeholders around them and combining existing forces to deploy solutions that translate into the lives of local communities, with concrete results on their health, purchasing power, employment, well-being, and security.
Find an overview of this morning's exchanges:
Ecology in action
Antoine Denoix, CEO of AXA Climate highlighted the local approach in managing climate risks. "Adaptation places us in the responsibility of sharing the same physical territory and therefore obliges us to cooperate,"he explained. He presented territorial cooperation initiatives, particularly around water management in the Pyrénées-Orientales and adaptation of buildings to flooding in northern France.
Jean-François Nogrette, Director of the France and Special Waste Europe zone, emphasized the importance of a "concrete and useful ecology" rooted in territories. He illustrated his point with examples: "In Dombasle, in the Northeast, we are transforming two coal-fired boilers into a boiler using solid recovered fuels, halving CO2 emissions." He also mentioned the issue of copper recycling, emphasizing that "France has many resources at hand, and we must implement a true ecology of territorial solutions."
