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On June 19, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution proclaiming 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives, under the slogan “Cooperatives build a better world”.

   

The French cooperative movement reaffirms its cooperative identity in its Manifesto, which is based on the cooperative principles of economic democracy, value sharing, cooperation, mutual aid and inclusiveness, and corporate social and environmental responsibility.

 

“Cooperatives demonstrate the importance of coming together to find solutions to global challenges... Cooperatives are the driving force behind development, fighting poverty and social exclusion, strengthening food security, supporting local entrepreneurs in markets, and much more... Your joint efforts are essential as our world faces complex challenges”, Antonio Guterres , UN Secretary-General.

 

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June 24, 2024 – Saint Pol sur Ternoise factory

Produce a sustainable energy with ENGIE Solutions !

 

• Be economically stable,

• Create dynamism of local wood sector,

• Minimise environnemental impact.

Designed and built by ENGIE Solutions with the help of local partners, this new largescale biomass boiler will utilize renewable and local energy: biomass. 75% of this biomass will come from within a 100 km area, contributing to the dynamism of the Hauts-de-France sector.

This long-term investment project benefits from ADEME's support fund as part of the France Relance plan and the BCIAT Biomass Heat Industry Agriculture and Tertiary program.

  Key figures: - 85% renewable energy in the long term (compared to 63% currently) - 26,000 tons of CO2 avoided per year (compared to 15,000 currently) - 75% of the wood-energy used sourced within area of less than 100 km.  

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