Sustainability Committee

Saipem has a Sustainability Committee composed of members of the Board and Top Executives that defines and steers Saipem Sustainability Strategy and activities, and the fundamental priorities of its sustainability programs.
The Sustainability Committee represents the entire Saipem top management:

ROUND-TABLE WITH SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

Committee’s point of view on Sustainability in today’s business
	“Saipem has always had a peculiar focus on sustainability, even when this word was not fully accepted in the international agenda. People are a core value in Saipem. The respect for the individual, for his or her culture and local entities has always generated value to Saipem's business. The work we are doing now on sustainability aims at refining, formalizing, and finally making even more concrete these intrinsic characteristics of Saipem” (Sabatino De Sanctis, QHSE Senior Vice President)
	“Local Content development remains a key aspect of our business, especially when operating in frontier areas. Saipem must constantly operate with the awareness that we may change people lives. In this respect our culture has always been based on the ability to operate together with the local people respecting their culture, creating a  social network to develop local infrastructures, and generally contributing to social development” (Pietro Galizzi, Senior Vice President Legal Affairs)
Future sustainability challenges in Committee’s view
	“Our future main challenge will be to keep on improving the quality of the local content we are able to develop and the level of interaction with communities. We have been pioneers in local content development but now we need to ensure that we will foster local suppliers and increase the presence of local employees in managerial positions” (Hugh O’Donnell, Deputy Chief Executive Officer)
	“The real challenge is being able to see sustainability as a strategic lever for business decisions and not as a short term set of actions to control stakeholders. We should be able to assess opportunities and risks with a global approach that enables us to avoid decisions which sound appealing from a pure short term focus but in the long run would damage our reputation or affect the relationship with stakeholders” (Aldo Gebbia, Risk and Opportunity and Knowledge Management Vice President)
	“The market will require shifting the focus on business performance more and more towards aspects such as technology innovation for environmental management and better working conditions. In this respect the main challenge, especially on board vessels, is to develop ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce our impact on the environment and communities” (Marco Toninelli, Assets Senior Vice President)
How the Committee sees itself
	“The sustainability Committee is important to communicate Saipem’s commitment and ensure the right alignment between sustainability and business. This is the only way to make sustainability part of everyday business” (Giulio Bozzini, Chief Financial Officer)
Opportunities and Threats in implementing Sustainability
	“Being sustainable is a real opportunity to ensure our growth and that one of our stakeholders, ensure our presence where the business is. The main threat is the lack of a long term strategic approach towards all stakeholders, such as contractors and suppliers, ensuring that they operate according to our standards and culture” (Paolo Daleffe, Procurement Senior Vice President)
	“I see our approach to Sustainability as an opportunity for Saipem to distinguish ourselves from our competitors, not only in ‘what we are able to do’ but also considering ‘the way we do it’. Nowadays, it is not anymore an option but something we need to do. The big threat would be not to do anything” (Jacques Léost, CEO Saipem SA)