Using generally accepted indicators, such as those from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), recommendations that emerged from the NRE Act in France and the expertise of its own environmental engineers, AXA devised these quantitative measurements to take into account data as diverse as volumes of different types of energy consumed by heated or air-conditioned spaces, the volume of non-sorted waste from company restaurants versus the number of meals served, and the quantity of different types of paper used per employee (recycled paper, printouts, non-chlorine bleached paper, etc.).