In March 2021, Air Liquide announced the reinforcement of all its sustainable development objectives, which are based on three pillars.
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In line with the Paris Agreement, the Group’s goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, with two major intermediate steps:
by 2025: begin to reduce CO2 emissions in absolute value;
by 2035:
-33%(1)
decrease in CO2 emissions from scopes 1 and 2, compared to 2020.
Additionally, Air Liquide maintains its objective of reducing the Group’s carbon intensity by 30% by 2025(2) compared to 2015.
by improving the quality of life of patients with chronic diseases in advanced economies, and by facilitating access to medical oxygen in low- and middle-income countries.
1,8M
patients were cared for at home by Air Liquide in 2021, including
38%
who are following a personalized care pathway, which amounts to 671,000 patients.
1M
people in low- and middle-income countries had access to medical oxygen.
by engaging with employees and building best-in-class governance practices.
31%
of engineers and professionals in 2021 were women. Air Liquide is aiming for 35% of engineers and professionals to be women by 2025.
34%
of employees benefited from the common basis of care coverage in 2021, with a target of 100% coverage by 2025.
1,1
Accident frequency rate(3). Slight increase compared with 2020 (0.9), which was the lowest rate in 20 years, in line with the strong business recovery in 2021.
