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Advancing for a sustainable future

Air Liquide is deeply committed to creating a positive impact on both the environment and society. Our strategy and actions are designed to address crucial challenges the world faces today, where we can make an impact and thus invent a sustainable future. With our strategic plan ADVANCE, we positioned our extra-financial and financial performance as equally important. It is with these convictions that we have made commitments for the environment, for health, and for all.

We address challenges with concrete actions that have a clear end goal: to make an impact.

François Jackow

Chief Executive Officer of Air Liquide

Our sustainability commitments

For the Environment

Contribute to a low-carbon society and the environment as a whole.

Reducing our CO2 emissions

  • by 2035, a -33% reduction in absolute Scopes 1 & 2 emissions, with an inflection point around 2025
  • by 2025, -30% reduction in Carbon Intensity
  • by 2050, reach carbon neutrality across the entire value chain

Water management

  • Implement a water management plan by 2025 for high water use sites in high water stress areas.
  • Define a Group standard for all operations related to the quality of discharged water

Biodiversity preservation

  • Reinforce biodiversity assessment criteria in the investment process in 2024
  • Implement an aggregated biodiversity indicator in 2025

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Our 2023 results

For Health

Improve the quality of life of patients and access to medical oxygen.

  • Improving the quality of life of patients with chronic diseases at home in mature economies
  • Facilitating access to medical oxygen in low- and middle- income countries

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Our 2023 results

For All

Strive to act as a trusted partner with all our stakeholders.

Engaging with our employees: creating a safer, more collaborative and inclusive work environment

  • by 2025, 35% women among Managers and Professional population
  • by 2025, 100% of employees to have common basis of care coverage
  • By 2025, 100% of employees to have access to volunteering opportunities through the Citizen at Work program

Building a best-in-class governance to create close relationships with stakeholders

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Our 2023 results

Air Liquide has always contributed to driving the industry forward. So we will continue to shape the markets of the future where our technologies create intrinsic value for our customers and also for society and the planet.

Diana Schillag

Member of the Executive Committee, overseeing Healthcare, Group Sustainable Development and Procurement.