1. Climate and Energy: Carbon Neutrality of Ski Areas by 2037

• Hydrogen snow groomer project
  • Support the emergence of the hydrogen snow groomer and promote the deployment of decarbonized hydrogen sources in mountain areas
• Deployment of the carbon footprint in all ski areas
  • Within 3 years, all ski areas will have carried out their carbon footprint
• Eco-driving of snow grooming equipment
  • Within 5 years, all snow grooming machine drivers will have been trained in eco-driving
• Eco-driving of teleported ski lifts
  • Within 2 years, all chairlift, cable car and cable car drivers will have been trained in eco-driving (the implementation of an automatic eco-driving system also addresses this issue)
• Reasonable use of ski lifts
  • Outside of peak periods, closure of redundant ski lifts as long as this does not impact the number of open slopes

2. Water and agriculture

• Water storage
  • Objective: to smooth out the withdrawal over time by storing water as soon as the annual snow production requires more than 100,000 m3 of water
• Water savings
  • Operators whose fleet of snow groomers exceeds 6 snow groomers undertake to measure the snow depth at different points on the slopes in order to optimise the volumes produced throughout the season.
• Support for pastoralism and water sharing
  • In drought situations, ski areas with a water supply share the resource with the farmers in their territories, and for fire reserve or drinking water needs where appropriate.

3. Biodiversity

• Ecological inventory
  • Each operator will have within 5 years an inventory of environmental knowledge of the natural areas concerned (fauna, flora, wetlands, wintering areas, breeding areas, etc.). This inventory is updated in the sectors where work is taking place.
• Protection of mountain galliformes
  • Within 5 years, 100% of sections of ski lift cables likely to be an obstacle to the flight of large birds, particularly Black Grouse (Alps) and Capercaillie (Pyrenees) will be marked.

4. Landscapes

• Vegetation after work
  • Commitment to 100% revegetation after earthworks in grassy/alpine areas
• Use of endemic seeds
  • Commitment to use endemic seeds for revegetation work
• Dismantling of obsolete installations
  • Deployment of a strategy to eliminate abandoned ski lifts from summer 2021, to achieve a target of eliminating three obsolete installations each year in 2023

5. Waste

• Waste collection in natural areas
  • Organization of at least one collection operation each year at each station/site
• Customer awareness
  • Raising awareness among skiers and hikers about waste reduction in 100% of resorts/sites, in partnership with associations

These eco-commitments constitute a foundation on which we wish to co-construct a sustainable development strategy with all the other stakeholders in our territories: local elected officials, ski schools, hoteliers and accommodation providers and all socio-professionals, transporters, environmental protection associations and citizens, whether residents or holidaymakers, because we all have a role to play.

Our objective is ambitious: to successfully achieve the ecological transition of our territories, by consolidating our links with living things, by developing our economic models, by contributing to improving the quality of life of residents and the experience offered to our customers.