Company: SNY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001121404-25-000010
Chunk: 29

Company: Sanofi
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 29
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 other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could present both physical and transition risks to our operations. Physical risks include adverse impacts on global temperatures, weather patterns and the frequency and severity of extreme weather and natural disasters. Natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, wildfire, or flooding, may pose physical risks to our facilities and disrupt the operation of our supply chain. The impacts of the changing climate on water resources may result in water scarcity, limiting our ability to access sufficient high-quality water in certain locations, which may increase operational costs. For example, in 2023 and 2024, our sites located in North Africa were exposed to intermittent shortages of drinking water distribution following severe episodes of water scarcity and maintenance issues of municipal utilities systems. Concern over climate change may also result in new or additional legal or regulatory requirements, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and/or mitigate the effects of climate change on the environment. If such laws or regulations were to be more stringent than current legal or regulatory obligations (e.g., increased carbon taxation risk), we may experience disruption in, or an increase in the costs associated with sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of our products, which may adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition. The increasing use of social media platforms and new technologies present risks and challenges for our business and reputation We increasingly rely on social media, new technologies and digital tools to communicate about our products and about diseases or to provide health services. The use of these media requires specific attention, monitoring programs and moderation of comments. Political and market pressures may be generated by social media because of rapid news cycles. This may result in commercial harm, overly restrictive regulatory actions, and erratic share price performance. In addition, unauthorized communications, such as press releases or posts on social media, purported to be issued by Sanofi, may contain information that is false or otherwise damaging and could have an adverse impact on our image and reputation and on our stock price. Negative or inaccurate posts or comments about Sanofi, our business, directors, or officers on any social networking website could seriously damage our reputation. In addition, our employees and partners may use social media and mobile technologies inappropriately, which may give rise to liability for Sanofi, or which could lead to breaches of data security, loss of trade secrets or other intellectual property or public disclosure of sensitive information. Such uses of social media and mobile technologies could have an adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition, and results of operations. Risks relating to Sanofi’s structure and strategy