AREVA's challenges

AREVA offers its customers high-tech solutions for carbon-free power generation: nuclear, wind energy, solar, biomass and fuel cells. The products and the processes that the group is implementing include risks that need to be brought under control. Its employees are therefore committed to sustainable development for the effective management of economic, environmental and social challenges confronting their businesses.
To do this, the group is following the AREVA Way, structured around three aspects:
- COMMITMENT: defining its sustainable development commitments, translating them into policies and objectives,
- ACTION: establishing a management system for sustainable development performance to drive progressive actions,
- BEING: developing a sense of responsibility among all employees by promoting sustainable development values, awareness and know-how.
Continuous improvement
The group's sustainable development policy is served by a commitment to ongoing improvement. It is implemented through a continuous improvement procedure based around 10 commitments. It is underpinned by specific management criteria that enable each entity to assess its own performance and define performance improvement plans that are consistent with the overall objectives. This process has led to the establishment of social and environmental performance indicators.
Dialog: listening and accountability
AREVA assumes its responsibilities as a corporate member of society. Because its operations may prompt questions, the group is dedicated to getting to know its stakeholders, to keeping them informed, to understanding what they want, and to building open and constructive dialog. Similarly, the group also reports publicly on developments in its programs and commitments through objective, controlled data.
Sustainable development is everyone's business
All of the company's businesses and departments are relevant to sustainable development. For day-to-day success, everyone in the organization is made to understand the challenges and to propose areas for improvement.

"AREVA at a glance" brochure
"2010 figures" economic, social, societal and environmental data
Health and Safety Policy 2011-2013
"Chalon/Saint-Marcel : rapport environnemental, social et sociétal 2009" [FR]
"AREVA in 2010" Report on responsible growth
AREVA's response to the Carbon Disclosure Projetc 2010
AREVA and the Global Compact 2010
AREVA WAY, a continuous improvement process
Values charter
Le poids socio-économique de l'électronucléaire en France (french only)
