GDF Suez Sustainability Case Study

Introduction

This report analyzes GDF SUEZ's strengths and weaknesses, and considers the opportunities and threats it faces with regards to sustainable development in its operations. This case study highlights how GDF SUEZ can improve its sustainability performance, and in doing so, gain a competitive advantage over its competitors.

Features and benefits

* An overview of GDF SUEZ's history and organizational structures, including the way sustainability is integrated across the different business lines.
* A solid assessment of GDF SUEZ's current sustainability challenges the way the group addresses those challenges.
* Analysis of GDF SUEZ's strenghths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with regards to its specific set of sustainability challenges.
* With a set of specific, actionable recommendations of how GDF SUEZ ought to improve its sustainability performance.

Highlights

GDF SUEZ’s sustainability efforts are impressive. Not only is sustainable development integrated at board level, but environmental and social criteria are part of the group’s purchasing criteria, and a crucial element in creating a sustainable supply chain.
GDF SUEZ's energy portfolio is varied, and geared towards a low-carbon economy. Its R&D activities will enable the group to take advantage of rapid urbanization in emerging markets by providing integrated sustainability services ranging from energy planning to the provision of drinking water and sanitation services.
While employees benefit from extensive career and training programs, the group is subject to high absenteeism rates across all business lines, which indicates underlying problems that need to be addressed urgently. Even more worrying are the fatality rates, and it is imperative that GDF SUEZ learns from its two business lines without fatalaties.

Your key questions answered

* Attain thorough understanding of sustainability issues in energy and water utilities, and for GDF SUEZ in particular.
* Benchmark your utility's sustainability efforts and performance to that of GDF SUEZ.
* Determine business opportunities arising from GDF SUEZ's strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and the set of recommendations provided.
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OVERVIEW
Catalyst
Key findings
RECOMMENDATIONS
Continue integrated sustainability reporting
Address underlying issues in working conditions
Use water footprinting as a means of brand differentiation
Make demand side management a business case
INTRODUCTION
Overview of GDF SUEZ
Brief history
Organizational profile – business lines
Subsidiaries
ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS
Company vision and mission
Presence in sustainability indices
Governance
Integration of sustainability in GDF SUEZ
Ability to communicate strong commitment to sustainability
Alignment of incentives with values
Supply chain management
Economic sustainability
Energy portfolio
Demand side management
Research and development
Legal proceedings
Environmental sustainability
Environmental management systems
Climate change
Water management
Waste management including the storage of nuclear waste
Biodiversity
Social sustainability
Workforce
Occupational health and safety
Access of the poor to power, water, and sanitation facilities
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
Integration of sustainable development in GDF SUEZ
Diversified business lines
Research and development innovation
Weaknesses
Focus on France in sustainability reporting
Water management
Demand-side reduction policies
Opportunities
Stricter global environmental legislation
Energy and environmental services
City of tomorrow
Threats
High number of fatalities and absenteeism
Legal proceedings
New market entrants/business consolidations
CONCLUSION
GDF SUEZ’s sustainability efforts are impressive
APPENDIX
GDF SUEZ history
Carbon Disclosure Project
Carbon disclosure score
Scoring methodology
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
Definitions
Further reading
Ask the analyst
Datamonitor consulting
Disclaimer
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