As long ago as the 1980s, in our “Principles and Objectives of Environmental Protection and Safety,” we committed to promoting occupational health and safety, conserving resources, and reducing emissions. Since then, we have continuously updated these aims at corporate and site level, achieving major improvements: 

In the past ten years alone, we have reduced occupational accidents by 86 percent, water consumption by 48 percent, energy consumption by 40 percent and waste generation by 37 percent. Thanks to the savings in energy consumption, we have also been able to reduce the associated carbon dioxide emissions by 33 percent.
 
On the basis of the progress achieved, we have defined Company-wide targets for the next five years: