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To ensure the proper deployment of its Climate policy, Accor has a dedicated governance framework. In 2020, the Climate Steering Committee was established by Accor Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sébastien Bazin. The mission of the Steering Committee is to define the climate strategy and the operational implementation of projects to reduce GHG emissions and limit climate risks. It is supervised and steered by the SVP Environment and the carbon project management team in the Sustainability Department. This team is responsible for mobilizing internal stakeholders to implement the carbon strategy. The ESG Committee appointed by the Board of Directors ensures the level of ambition and monitors the execution of the sustainability strategy and especially of the climate roadmap defined by the Executive Committee. The Ethics Committee is also responsible for strategic monitoring. It provides guidance to the Management Board and supervises processes related to ethics, compliance and sustainability. The Risk Department is responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing climate risks, with support from the Group Risk Committee. The Sustainable Performance Department is responsible for managing the energy data consumption collection tool at group level. The Operations (General Managers, VP Operations) and the Design & Technical Services (D&TS) are responsible for collecting energy consumption data at hotel level through the dedicated tool. The diagram below summarizes Accor's climate risk governance, including data flows between the Steering Committee and other stakeholders.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]The person in charge of Accor's responsible lobbying is the Chief Sustainability Officer who is also in charge of the operational monitoring of the sustainability strategy PLANET 21 (including the climate change strategy). The CSO ensures consistency between the external engagement and Accor's strategy. Indeed, the CSO is aware of every activity that might influence public policy on climate change. For direct activities, tools and processes are designed at global headquarters and then deployed in the hotels to ensure that every action, at the Group and hotel level, is consistent with Accor's global strategy.

In terms of governance and CSR, it is the Appointments, Compensation and CSR Committee's responsibility to make sure that the corporate governance principles in place are properly applied and to prepare the decisions by the Board of Directors relating to social and environmental responsibility. In this capacity, it reviews the CSR policy guidelines and reviews the results thereof.

In 2021, the Ethics and CSR Committee, which has existed since 2014, was repurposed and renamed the Ethics, Compliance and Sustainable Development Committee. The Committee is responsible for guiding the Accor Group through the delivery of its ethics and compliance commitments and in upholding its social, societal and environmental responsibility. A special focus is on ensuring compliance with the principles and practices set out in the Ethics and CSR Charter and all resulting commitments and procedures.

Additionally, the Carbon Steering Committee is responsible for the implementation of the carbon strategy which includes representatives from departments across the business. It is supported by the Carbon Project Management Office, which is responsible for mobilising workstream projects across the business to implement the carbon strategy.

Moreover, the objectives of PLANET 21 are validated with every hotel on an annual basis. GAIA, Accor's internal management and reporting tool, allows the Group to oversee the hotel's progress in particular on energy saving or renewable energy action plans and to monitor regularly energy consumption (e.g. use of energy-efficient light bulbs, have a renewable energy generation system, have a cogeneration or energy recovery system, receive power from a «green» energy supply). This tool also allows hotels to implement specific actions plans.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your external engagement activities are consistent with your climate commitments and/or climate transition plan?[…]The person in charge of Accor's responsible lobbying is the Chief Sustainability Officer who is also in charge of the operational monitoring of the Sustainability Strategy (including the climate change strategy). The CSO ensures consistency between the external engagement and Accor's strategy. Indeed, the CSO is aware of every activity that might influence public policy on climate change. For direct activities, tools and processes are designed at global headquarters and then deployed in the hotels to ensure that every action, at the Group and hotel level, is consistent with Accor's global strategy.