Natural capital

Promotion of a production and consumption model aimed at extending the life cycle of products and services so as to minimize waste and impact; this involves exploiting waste as a recyclable and reusable resource, making advances in waste sorting and making more efficient use of sludges and wastewater for the production of biogas and biomethane.
This also means minimizing the use of landfills and the use of non-renewable resources in business.

• Increase in the percentage of sorted waste 
• Increase in waste collection
• Acquisition of TecnoA
• Acquisition of Saxa Gres
• New sludge drying plant at Corteolona, near Pavia

• Waste recovery and treatment
• Reduction policies

Improvement in the management of water resources of facilities and commitment to minimizing water losses. Providing an efficient and high-quality service, with particular attention to water treatment and purification. Focus on the management of the resource in areas affected by water stress.

• Continuation of experimental activity on the River Spoel
• Introduction of Water Safety Plans
• New Valtrompia purification facility 
• Aquarius Project

Water

Activities to improve plant efficiency and performance for the purpose of reducing emissions; commitment to advancing development of sustainable technologies and renewable energy sources and thus contribute to the struggle against climate change and promote the energy transition; promotion of energy efficiency initiatives in both Group facilities and with our customers; alignment with international objectives for the reduction of climate-changing emissions (e.g. Paris Agreement).

• Updating of decarbonization target 
• Increase in photovoltaic production capacity
• Support for increased presence of e-mobility
• Investments in electricity network resilience

Energy transitions 

• Emissions
• Sustainable mobility
• Greater energy efficiency in end uses
• Renewables
• mart Grid 

Circular economy 

District heating

Safeguarding the land, flora and fauna heritage in the areas where Group facilities or other Group sites are present, thanks also to constant activities of monitoring and dialogue with stakeholders so as to minimize impacts on biodiversity and on the most important habitats.

• Structural investments in electricity networks to reduce environmental and landscape impacts
• Support for projects for the safeguarding of biodiversity in some parts of Italy

Governance

• Biodiversity
• District heating

Adoption of measures to prevent or eliminate all forms of pollution, to reduce negative impacts on human health and the environment to a minimum. Controlled management of materials and substances in line with EU regulations. Attention and monitoring with respect to the environmental performance of the Group’s infrastructures, facilities and means of transport, including all the activities related to the prevention and reduction of noise produced by Group vehicles for the collection of waste and cleaning of streets, and by all types of industrial facility. Activities for the reduction of light pollution through the introduction of more public LED lighting. Efficient management of the emission into the air of surplus heat.

• Initiation of new NOx reduction system (two SCR catalytic denitrification plants) for the Cassano d’Adda power facility.
• Promotion of e-mobility 
• LombHe@t research project
• A2A-ENI agreement for waste heat recovery at the Bolgiano facility 

Circular economy

• District heating

Energy transition

• Renewables