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Onet joins sailor Fabrice Amedeo in protecting the environment

The Onet Group has just signed a 3-year partnership agreement to support the project of Fabrice Amedeo, a yachtsman committed to biodiversity through the preservation of the oceans and the planet. In particular, the Group is financing the sensor on board the famous sailor's racing boat.

With the IPCC warning last September of a warmer, saltier and less oxygen-rich marine world, the Onet Group has decided to enter into a partnership with Fabrice Amedeo, sailor and journalist, participant in the Vendée Globe; to combat these phenomena and play an active part in the fight against global warming.

In fact, Onet is financing a sensor on board the yachtsman's boat, made up of various modules that can collect data on water salinity, Co2 levels and phytoplankton content. The module dedicated to measuring the presence of micro-plastics will be integrated for the next Vendée Globe in 2020. This unprecedented amount of data - collected offshore, in places where scientific boats pass by only once every 10 years - will be made available to scientific institutes such as Ifremer. They will then be able to use them in their climate research. These scientific analyses will be an invaluable aid in modelling climate change and studying the level of pollution in the oceans, thus preserving biodiversity and combating the decline of our ecosystem.

Friday, October 18, 2019
- Onet Group

This partnership is part of Onet's ongoing Responsible Development approach.

The Group has three main commitments:

give priority to all techniques, methods and equipment that save natural resources and respect biodiversity;
produce services by promoting the circular economy;
develop activities that contribute to the use of low-carbon energy.

"The Onet Group has been committed to responsible development for many years. "declares Émilie de Lombarès, Chairman of the Board Onet. " Onet launched its CSR policy, "Un Présent pour un Futur", back in 2002. Today, we are working on various projects based on the circular economy and preserving the health of our stakeholders. For Onet, this means replacing conventional cleaning products with eco-labelled and biotechnological products, and reusing plastic containers. This helps to reduce the amount of waste discharged into the environment, particularly the oceans. We were immediately enthusiastic about Fabrice's scientific project, which is fully in line with our objective of reducing our impact on mankind and the environment. ".

" Fabrice's project is fully in line with our Group's values: listening, respect and boldness, which underpin every one of our actions and are carried forward by all our employees. "adds Élisabeth Coquet Reinier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Onet SA and Chairwoman of the Responsible Development Committee. " In all our sectors, we play a part in preserving resources. We are convinced that each and every one of us, at our own level, must provide innovative and responsible responses to the major challenges of today and tomorrow. That's why we are so keen to support this project, which is part of our commitment to preserving biodiversity. ".

Find out more about Fabrice Amedeo :

Journalist-navigator? Sailor-journalist? Fabrice Amedeo has chosen not to choose between these two paths, which he has been following with passion for a long time. But the call of the open sea has taken over in recent years, leading him to spend more time on the pontoons of Trinité than in the newsroom of Le Figaro. From the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe to the Transat Jacques Vabre, first in a Class40 and then in an Imoca, Fabrice has worked his way up to his personal Everest last winter. 11th in the Vendée Globe 2016-17, he entered the closed circle of circumnavigators, commanding respect and drawing many, many people into his childhood dream. In 2019, he's back, double-handed, with Eric Peron, aboard Newrest - Art & Fenêtres for a fourth Transat Jacques Vabre and always the same desire to progress.