Environmental responsibility

Due to the fact that its business involves the assembly and sale of environmentally hazardous products, UPERGY has an environmental responsibility that the company cannot ignore. In order to implement actions to reduce the pressure exerted by the company on the environment, it is first necessary to measure the Group’s impact, an exercise accomplished through the annual calculation of the Carbon Footprint. UPERGY also wants to take into account the pressure exerted by the environment on its business through its sourcing strategy and the optimisation of resources used.

Since August 2023, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 has established a new framework for the marketing, management, and recycling of batteries and accumulators within the European Union. (The new Regulation replaces Directive 2006/66/EC.) Its objective is clear: to reduce the environmental impact of batteries while ensuring their performance, traceability, and recyclability.

These Regulations define five new categories of batteries: Portable, Industrial, Light Transportation (LTL), Starter-Lighting (SLI), and Electric Vehicles (EV).

It introduces several new requirements, including:

  • Enhanced sustainability and safety standards;
  • More transparent labeling on composition and performance;
  • The obligation to incorporate more recycled raw materials into manufacturing;
  • Better collection and recovery at the end of life.

This Regulation marks an important step in supporting the ecological transition and strengthening the circular economy in Europe.

Discover our comprehensive FAQ dedicated to the new EU Regulation 2023/1542 on batteries and battery waste.

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UPERGY is committed to calculating its Carbon Footprint every year and to including Scope 3 in the calculation perimeter in order to have the most complete representation of the Group’s carbon emissions possible. In 2023, an action plan has been drawn up with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint through concrete actions, in particular for the two most polluting areas of emissions to date: Transport and Procurement.

Find out more about UPERGY’s approach to reducing its carbon footprint in the Extra-Financial Performance Statement.

UPERGY is aware that preserving life and ecosystems is as important as climate change and is a pillar of the ecological transition. That is why the Group is committed to training in order to improve its maturity on this subject, raising awareness among its stakeholders and taking into account its impact on biodiversity in the performance of its business.

To anticipate as far as possible the risk of resource shortages created by these conditions, UPERGY intends to rethink its sourcing strategy, particularly regarding the products purchased to maintain and develop the Group’s business, and to develop its Responsible Sourcing approach via the ISO 20 400 standard. To carry out this project, UPERGY needs to work with its suppliers and value chain.

The Group’s business requires the use of a variety of resources (assembly products, packaging, gas, water and electricity for buildings, paper, etc.). UPERGY is committed to optimizing and even reducing the consumption of these various resources and to taking environmental criteria into account in its purchasing choices. The goal here is to have a more responsible production method overall.