Mercialys Maintains Its CDP Climate A List Ranking for the Fifth Consecutive Year

13 Dec 2022 17:55 CET

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Mercialys (Paris:MERY) has been recognized once again for its commitment to the fight against climate change. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)*, a leading international organization for assessing companies’ climate policies, has maintained Mercialys’ A List status, the highest level in its benchmark.

Mercialys has been recognized as one of the 283 top companies globally, out of nearly 15,000 companies scored this year.

Each year, the CDP assesses the exhaustiveness and quality of companies’ climate reporting, their increased awareness and management of climate risks, their application of best practices, such as setting ambitious and significant goals, as well as their performance in the fight against climate change.

Mercialys’ continued presence in the Climate A List reflects its ongoing commitments to reduce its carbon footprint. They are illustrated in particular by the scientific approval of its carbon roadmap, issued by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)** since 2019, with its commitments including a -47% reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions per square meter between 2017 and 2030. Thanks to the various actions rolled out, Mercialys has already reduced these emissions by -26% in four years and is on track to achieve its carbon roadmap.

By taking part in this questionnaire – whose answers are made public - for the past five years, Mercialys is also setting out its commitment to transparency and access to reliable and comparable environmental data, benefiting the 680 investors that use the CDP and, more widely, all of its stakeholders.

* Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP): international not-for-profit organization that assesses, based on environmental data collected each year, how businesses, territories and organizations impact climate change, water and forests.

** The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): international non-profit organization that assesses, based on criteria defined by scientific experts, the alignment between the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets set by companies and the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to ensure that these targets effectively limit the increase in global temperatures to 2°C by 2050 compared with 1990.

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This press release is available on www.mercialys.com.

About Mercialys
Mercialys is one of France’s leading real estate companies. It is specialized in the holding, management and transformation of retail spaces, anticipating consumer trends, on its own behalf and for third parties. At June 30, 2022, Mercialys had a real estate portfolio valued at Euro 3.1 billion (including transfer taxes). Its portfolio of 2,130 leases represents an annualized rental base of Euro 168.8 million. Mercialys has been listed on the stock market since October 12, 2005 (ticker: MERY) and has “SIIC” real estate investment trust (REIT) tax status. Part of the SBF 120 and Euronext Paris Compartment B, it had 93,886,501 shares outstanding at June 30, 2022.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements regarding future events, trends, projects or targets. These forward-looking statements are subject to identified and unidentified risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to Mercialys’ Universal Registration Document available at www.mercialys.com for the year ended December 31, 2021 for more details regarding certain factors, risks and uncertainties that could affect Mercialys’ business. Mercialys makes no undertaking in any form to publish updates or adjustments to these forward-looking statements, nor to report new information, new future events or any other circumstances that might cause these statements to be revised.

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