Veolia’s ambition is to become the best-of-class company in ecological transformation, and has made this its purpose. The Group designs and deploys useful and concrete solutions for water, waste and energy management. Since 2020, as part of its commitment to societal performance, Veolia has entrusted UTOPIES with the task of assessing its socio-economic footprint worldwide. For the Group, this means reporting on the extent to which it has achieved its objective of sustaining jobs and wealth in its territories.
Each year, UTOPIES has processed Veolia’s data in over fifty countries where the group operates, in order to model the indirect and induced impacts associated with its activities in these territories. In addition to the extended geographical coverage, the calculations were detailed for France at business unit level.
The 2024 study covers 98% of Veolia’s sales. It presents the total number of jobs supported by Veolia worldwide, distinguishing for each country between direct, indirect and induced jobs. Overall, Veolia’s activities in 2023 supported more than 1.2 million jobs (full-time equivalent).
This support for employment goes hand in hand with a contribution to wealth creation of €85 billion in GDP worldwide (28% of Veolia’s direct added value, 29% of indirect GDP, 43% of induced GDP).
UTOPIES has worked with data visualization specialist WeDoData to design an online dashboard, interactively displaying the results of the socio-economic footprints carried out each year in the various countries where Veolia operates, which can be found here.
