BUSINESS: 327 PRACTICES
OPAP was founded in 1958 and is the leading company of the Greek gaming industry. It is an integral part of the country, showcasing continuous and consistent contribution to the socio-economic development of Greece.
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We recognize that our business sustainability goes side by side with social growth and prosperity, a principle we have followed throughout the 58 years of our operation in Greece. Thus, one of our key objectives is to build and maintain community trust and support, since the contribution to their sustainable development is also an investment in our own future.
All OPAP Group employees.
The application of OPAP strategy on environmental protection is ongoing.
Although OPAP is a labor-intensive services company without being involved in manufacturing activities, it has developed a certified Environmental Management System according to ISO14001:2004, for both OPAP S.A. and OPAP Services S.A., in order to ensure that potential impacts on the environment due to its operations are addressed and reduced in a systematic way. The scope of the system includes all activities: design, development, administration, operation and management of gaming products and services.
As part of this system, OPAP identifies and evaluates the environmental impact of its activities, structured around 5 steps:
1. Identify environmental aspects
2. Determine environmental impacts
3. Evaluate environmental impacts
4. Issue and review environmental aspects evaluation
5. Define measures and monitor actions and performance
In order to identify the sources from which we can reduce our environmental footprint, we quantify direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions sources from our operations, which primarily results from electricity consumption in our buildings and secondarily from fuel consumption. More specifically, in 2015 through a series of quantitative reports of our environmental impact, we proceeded to a series of practices that resulted to decrease of the average electricity consumption per employee to 6,295 KWh, compared to 9,822 KWh in 2014.
Our specific actions that we applied were the following:
The aforementioned practices led to a 21% decrease of the total CO2 (tn) emissions and a 22% decrease of the total electric energy consumption ενέργειας (MWh).
We aim to comply and surpass the current environmental legislation and its relevant provisions and thus we invest in minimizing our environment impact. We continuously redefine our business strategy in a responsible and sustainable way and in this framework we conduct all necessary environmental impact assessments, recognizing that natural resources are not inexhaustible and our key priority is to use them in the most efficient way, in the framework of our operation.
In this framework we implement the following initiatives:
OPAP Group direct (scope 1) and indirect (scope 2) CO2 emissions from energy consumption in 2022 are 15.258 t CO2 eq, decreased by 16% versus 2021.
The total emissions from energy consumption (location-based approach for scope 2) are 2.362,8 t CO2 eq for 2022, which are decreased by 27% vesrus 2021 (3.215 t CO2 eq).
National OPAP activity.
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It affects all our employees.
Our continuous environmental impact study and our objective to undertake inatiatives that improve the efficiency of our operations and protect the environment, ensures that we remain a trusted organization in Greece and creates added value for all of our stakeholders, while reinforces the reputation of our company as a responsible corporate citizen.
