Orano - Annual Activity Report 2024 145 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT 4 Environmental information MATERIAL IMPACTS, RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Type Impacts, Risks and Opportunities Localization in the value chain CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION [E1] FUTURE RISK PHYSICAL RISKS TO ORANO’S ACTIVITIES AND ITS VALUE CHAIN CAUSED BY CLIMATE HAZARDS OWN OPERATIONS, UPSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM IRO Climate change (high heat, water stress, heavy rainfall, etc.) could slow down or stop Orano’s activities (industrial operations, transport of materials, etc.). Description Orano is already seeing an increase in climate hazards. The worsening of these hazards and the non-management of vulnerabilities could hamper Orano’s production capacities and ultimately the group’s revenue. The group has structured an approach to adapting to climate change based on the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios by 2050 and 2100 (where relevant to the lifetime of the operations). The teams are working on quantifying the investments to be made over the next 10 years. FUTURE RISK RISK FOR ORANO OF A UPSTREAM VALUE CHAIN NOT ADAPTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE UPSTREAM IRO Climate change could generate tensions on the supply of raw materials, materials and equipment necessary for the activity. Description Climate change could impact supply chains as well as access to certain resources. This could impact the group’s production capacities and therefore its revenue or production costs. 4.2.1.3 Business model resilience to climate change Since 2021, Orano has been part of the Task Force on ClimateRelated Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The group has therefore included in its risk analyses a dimension to identify the physical risks related to climate change scenarios. The least ambitious scenarios in terms of the fight against climate change, because they are high emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), are the most likely to generate physical risks and have an impact on the group’s activities. In addition, following this methodology and wishing to improve the quality of its work with regard to the benchmarks studied, the group has identified the impacts related to climate change on the continuity of its activities (transition risk) in the light of different global warming scenarios by 2050. The scenarios taken into account in the analysis are those of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios of the IPCC). Physical risks The physical risks related to climate change were analyzed on the basis of the RCP-4.5 and RCP-8.5 emission scenarios, up to 2050 and beyond, in a manner consistent with the expected life of the activities. The potential impacts on the operating conditions of plants (in France), mines (in operation, in the project phase and for remediated sites), suppliers, and flows of radioactive materials were identified on the basis of work carried out internally and with the support of a consulting firm. Analysis of the physical risks shows that the vulnerability of Orano’s activities is moderate but that the vulnerabilities identified require an adaptation plan to be defined and prepared. The main levers for adapting to climate vulnerabilities, detailed below, were cobuilt with the sites in 2022. They have been appropriated by each entity for planning and implementation. In 2024, all of the group’s industrial entities worked to formalize their adaptation plan.
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