_218 2023 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT_MICHELIN 4 NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT Sustainable Development Report In the case of noise pollution, manufacturing operations whose noise levels are not particularly significant consistently comply with local legislation in every host community. When designing new facilities or extensions, guidelines are followed to ensure that noise-generating equipment, such as fans and other auxiliary systems, are installed far from the property boundaries. More generally, the on-site teams work with Group experts to abate the odors, noise and other potential environmental nuisances that manufacturing operations may cause local residents. 4.1.1.5 Measuring and reducing the environmental impact of digital technology An integral part of the Group’s All Sustainable vision, the Digital Sustainability initiative is one of the key levers for attenuating impacts and reaching our decarbonization targets by 2050. It is also helping to build the right balance between People, Planet and Profit from three perspectives: Green IT: minimizing the environmental impact of digital technology The Group’s digital activities represent the equivalent of 2.3% of its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, or 50 ktCO2e per year as of end2023. With half of these emissions coming from user equipment, a plan has been deployed to reduce the impact by recovering unused hardware, with around 9,300 computers and 7,550 fixed-line telephones already collected. On the IT services side, applications and servers have been decommissioned and an annual campaign to replace obsolete network hardware is also underway. IT for Green: leveraging digital technology to meet our Planet ambitions more quickly In 2023, the IT for Green program was structured around a portfolio of more than eighty initiatives, including around 20 with a strong IT contribution. A project to digitalize non-financial reporting has been deployed to prepare Group units to comply more efficiently with the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The Digital Manufacturing transformation project has avoided the release of 11.6 ktCO2e, while saving 27,960 MWh of power and €4,194,000 in costs. 4.1.1.6 Valuing environmental externalities In 2020, Michelin initiated an exercise to place a monetary value on its environmental impacts, starting with the ones addressed by commitments to the planet. Undertaken as part of the All Sustainable strategy, the exercise is designed to facilitate the representation of environmental issues, enhance transparency with stakeholders and provide a valuation method for use in assessing the performance of Group units or during acquisitions. These volumes are as follows: ● total tonnes of Scopes 1 and 2 CO2 emissions, as described in section 4.1.1.4 b) /Summary table of environmental data - Group; ● total tonnes of CO2 emissions in part of Scope 3, covering the upstream and downstream transportation and distribution of natural rubber, semi-finished products and finished products (see section 4.1.1.1 a)); ● total tonnes used of organic solvents generating volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (see section 4.1.1.4 d)); ● total cubic meters of water withdrawn, both used and discharged (see section 4.1.1.4 f)).
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