With the ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, the EU is imposing on companies a real contract with the planet. This decarbonization is largely in the hands of purchasing departments, and offers many advantages in terms of securing and sustaining supply chains. It remains to choose the right tools to project and manage this low-carbon trajectory, and to convince its suppliers to commit to sharing its benefits, particularly in terms of reducing future taxation.
Philippe Mangeard, head of the Global Climate Initiatives platform, an intelligent reference platform for establishing carbon and GHG assessments, supports entrepreneurs in their environmental transitions. Because deciding to do a carbon footprint is deciding to engage in a low-carbon strategy that will require the good ideas and efforts of everyone.
Global Climate Initiatives has been in existence for more than ten years and has all the tools necessary to identify, calculate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 10 years of experience allow us to provide our clients with a carbon forecasting account, a certified carbon balance sheet that can be used against third parties, and consolidation and analysis that allow us to establish ways to improve.
The main mission of the GCI Authorized Expert is to present GCI services, to convince his interlocutors of their autonomy to use them, and to spread this good practice to all their subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers.
Louis Gac, Junior CTO of GCI, demonstrates the technological specificities of the GCI platform, as well as its added value.
Currently, the set of technologies used to develop the GCI platform can be adapted to the constraints of all types of companies, whether they are small or large and in any country. The GCI application relies heavily on crowdsourcing.
Becoming a GCI Authorized Expert provides a simple platform that complies with the regulations for carrying out a complete carbon assessment
A 100% digital calculator, its proven ergonomics and pedagogy allow users with no particular knowledge of carbon accounting to be autonomous in a few hours and to use it 24/7. The platform also provides tools to develop and implement action plans to reduce emissions, as well as contribution/offset programs.
Philippe Mangeard, President of GCI, presents the Global Climate Initiatives platform. Today, half a dozen start-ups have launched, which shows that the market has evolved and that today we need to move in this digital direction.
We started ten years ago. Until three years ago, we were the only digital platform to make this kind of proposal.
Understand in 4 minutes, in all simplicity, the Carbon Footprint and the interest to involve your suppliers.
Global Climate Initiatives was created in 2012 to allow everyone, whether a company or a community, to simply and autonomously carry out their own carbon footprint, and thus detect ways to reduce their emissions.
The Circular Economy is part of these good solutions, and also brings a number of very appreciable societal benefits.
Taking into account the GHG emissions performance of its suppliers is one of the essential measures to reduce its own GHG emissions.
Building tomorrow's world requires the mobilization and commitment of companies and their ecosystems to sustainable development, particularly through projects with a positive impact on society and the environment.
72 employees | Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis)
The French Badminton Federation (FFBaD) has chosen GCI to assess the carbon footprint of its activities, as part of its commitment to social performance.
This dynamic partnership continues with the GHG assessment of 20 affiliated clubs, marking a significant step in the transition to a sustainable approach within the federation.
700 employees | Saint-Emilion (Gironde)
“The solution developed by Global Climate Initiative answers perfectly to one of our major challenges of the moment: “to make accessible to all the GHG assessment”. As part of our progress approach, we have to make precise GHG emissions assessments for our own entities, and for more and more events and campaigns delivered by Hopscotch.
The classic calculators provided free of charge do not allow us to make accurate assessments, nor to draw progress trajectories and we do not have the time and money to rely on experts.
GCI’s digital platform, coupled with its consultants who can be called upon when necessary, is extremely simple and effective.”
47 employees | Carros (Alpes-Maritimes)
“As part of our CSR approach, we have voluntarily committed to the realization of the Carbon Footprint of INELDEA Laboratories. To help us, we have chosen the GCI platform (Global Climate Initiative) allowing us to centralize all the data necessary for the realization of our assessment.
The realization of a Carbon Footprint is a complex and time-consuming process, and this tool allows us to simplify its deployment by providing forms adapted to different activities, automatic converters of data into GHG emissions, online support and assistance, as well as a complete report allowing us to identify avenues for reduction.
It is a complete tool, easy to use (the data is well structured by theme) and easy to understand thanks to the numerous descriptions of each theme that guide us step by step through the data to be collected.”
Senior Consultant | Bordeaux Office
“I am a consultant and I support positive impact innovation projects. I adopted the GCI tool to carry out my greenhouse gas emissions assessments for its user-friendliness, simplicity and cost. Indeed, in order to guide the decisions of entrepreneurs towards a low-carbon operational trajectory, it is essential to be able to determine and update simply and quickly the orders of magnitude of the emissions generated not only by their own activities, but also by those of their suppliers, partners, service providers and even their customers!
These scope 3 emissions, too often ignored, represent a significant part of a company’s overall impact. To work on offers, on the choice of stakeholders, on processes, a simple and inexpensive measurement tool is needed, which can become a steering tool. The GCI calculator perfectly meets this objective, which is why I have adopted it and I take advantage of my consulting missions to have it adopted by as many people as possible.
Carbon neutrality only makes sense in a global sense. It does not stop at the limits of the company. The philosophy of the GCI tool is in total adequacy with this vision, allowing everyone, for a derisory amount, to participate in this vital objective.”
5 employees | Lescheraines (Savoie)
“Managing a small business with 5 employees and 4.2 million euros in sales in the distribution of energy, animal feed, fertilizers and beverages, I wanted to determine our carbon impact and implement corrective and reduction measures, as well as measures to offset the GHGs emitted by our activities.
In half a day, I was able to complete the GCI calculation spreadsheet. Then, having received the missing information through GCI’s online support, I was able to complete my carbon footprint the next day!
With this first step, we were able to implement the ACT step by step approach developed by ADEME with the help of certified consultants.
Thus, although we work mainly with fossil fuels, the carbon assessment carried out by GCI and the ACT step-by-step approach developed by ADEME, allows us to consider a diversification towards renewable energies with more serenity.”
20 employees | Paris (Ile-de-France)
“Recy’stem-Pro is an operator that assists manufacturers and importers, marketers, in fulfilling their obligations in terms of Extended Producer Responsibility for the management of their end-of-life products (batteries, WEEE, professional furniture waste…)
In order to complete its offer of assistance to its customers, it was natural to offer them a tool for calculating and reducing their CO2 emissions that is both complete and easy to use.
With this objective in mind, Recy’stem-Pro has entered into a partnership with Global Climate Initiatives in order to carry out its GHG assessment independently and to offer this complete service to its customers.
The tool is very practical and should be used by all companies that want to act for the climate!”
180 employees | Gujan-Mestras (Gironde)
“There are many reasons why Chantier Naval Couach chose to do its carbon assessment with GCI.
First of all, the simplicity and ergonomics of the digital platform allow for a quick grasp and understanding of scopes 1 and 2, and therefore a quick data entry.
The digital nature of the calculator will also enable a better understanding of scope 3 issues and thus build a more virtuous ecosystem with our upstream and downstream partners.
Finally, and this is not insignificant for SMEs/SMIs coming out of containment, the very competitive cost of GCI reinforced our choice.”
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