The Group

"We see the environment as a value. We operate throughout the world with this awareness, using our expertise, technology, innovation and experience with the constant aim of reconciling our activities with our commitment to safeguarding natural resources."

Protection of the environment is one of the main pillars of the idea of sustainability. For some time now Finmeccanica has been working to integrate management of environmental aspects with its own business objectives. This commitment has become even more visible from 2005 onwards, when the first Group Environmental Report was drawn up.

This is a certified report that is now being integrated in the Finmeccanica Sustainability Report for the first time in 2009.

Ours has been a journey of accounting and transparency towards stakeholders that continues through the years and is gradually perfected in line with the many needs of the market and the community, using continual research and the best technology to create value and safeguard the environment.

Our efforts are centred around the increasingly efficientuse of natural resources and a reduction in the impact of our activities, together with promotion of virtuous behaviour.

Environmental sustainability: our goals

• Continuous improvement of environmental performance

• Identification of areas for environmental improvement

• Control and reduction of the use of hazardous substances

• Energy saving

• Minimisation of waste production

Finmeccanica looks to the future, strong in its expertise and aware of its economic and social role on the global market, and with the understanding the excellence is synonymous with sustainability.

To find out more about how Finmeccanica manages the environmental side of sustainability, we suggest you read the chapter “Environmental dimension of sustainability” in the 2009 Sustainability Report.