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Coline Jacobs
Head of Sustainable Development
Veolia
Private Sector & Development author
Coline Jacobs has been spearheading the Sustainable Development division’s commitment to protecting ecosystems and biodiversity at Veolia’s Head Office since 2014. Coline chairs the “Enterprise and Biodiversity” working group set up by the French Committee of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and she has helped develop various innovative solutions in liaison with nature conservation organisations such as Noé and IUCN. Examples include eco-logical.fr and an application for measuring local biodiversity footprints.
Veolia
Veolia is a French company that employs 178,000 people in over 40 countries. The Group is present on five continents where it deploys water (i.e., potable water production and sanitation), waste (collection, processing and recycling of non-hazardous and hazardous waste) and energy management solutions (energy production and heating and cooling networks, etc.). Veolia’s businesses give it a strong connection to the local community and its customers are drawn from both the public sector (i.e., local authorities and local government bodies) and private sector (manufacturing and service companies, etc.).