After the carbon footprint assessment

Decarbo'Solution® transforms purchases, transition plans, and calls for tenders into measurable levers for low-carbon performance, based on reliable data and supplier commitment.

Sustainable development offers a vision of progress that meets current needs while preserving those of future generations. Born out of the Brundtland Report, it now guides public policy and corporate initiatives.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, more than 80 times more potent than CO₂ over a 20-year period. Understanding its origins and effects helps identify the most effective ways to slow global warming.

CSR labels are establishing themselves as powerful drivers of sustainable transformation. With requirements covering transparency, carbon reduction, and supplier involvement, they support companies in their credible and structured transition to a more responsible model.

The LUCIE label, based on the ISO 26000 standard, guides companies in implementing a credible and measurable CSR approach. It promotes concrete actions in favor of sustainable development based on transparency, progress, and positive impact.

Adopting an ESG approach means committing your company to a sustainable governance model where performance, transparency, and positive impact go hand in hand.

Low-carbon construction: the new standards of sustainability Faced with the climate emergency, the building sector is adopting low-carbon standards and labels that are redefining sustainable construction. With tools such as Global Climate Initiatives' Decarbo'Solution®, measuring, reducing, and recovering carbon are becoming levers for environmental performance and traceability.

The Climate and Resilience Act sets a clear course for ecological transition in France. It commits citizens, businesses, and local authorities to building a more sober, fairer, and sustainable economy through concrete and measurable actions.

Societal impact is redefining corporate performance: beyond financial results, it assesses companies' real contribution to the common good. By linking social, environmental, and economic responsibility, organizations are building a more sustainable and humane model.

Data centers, the pillars of the digital world, consume enormous amounts of energy and account for a growing share of global emissions. Discover how to measure, understand, and reduce their carbon footprint to build a more sustainable digital world.

The real estate sector accounts for a significant portion of GHG emissions. Discover how to measure and reduce them with GCI's Decarbo'Solution®.

The ESRS standards define a common framework for non-financial reporting in Europe. They aim to enhance the transparency, comparability, and reliability of ESG data, helping companies to better measure and communicate their sustainability impacts.

Assessing suppliers on CSR is not limited to a simple questionnaire. Discover how to avoid the pitfalls of declarative statements and transform extra-financial analysis into a lever for performance and decarbonization.

A carbon footprint assessment only makes sense if it leads to a concrete action plan. Discover how to transform your emissions data into strategic levers with a clear roadmap that is monitored and aligned with your low-carbon transition goals.

Building a sustainable supply chain enables SMEs to combine economic performance, environmental responsibility, and resilience. By incorporating CSR and carbon criteria into their purchasing, they reduce their ecological footprint while strengthening the trust of their partners and customers.

The SRI label certifies investment funds that incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. It guarantees more ethical and transparent management, while directing capital towards companies committed to sustainable development.

The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) is a European method that measures the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle. It helps companies assess, compare, and improve the sustainability of their products according to reliable and harmonized criteria.

The QSE (Quality, Safety, Environment) approach helps companies improve their performance, enhance workplace safety, and reduce their environmental impact, while promoting customer satisfaction and sustainable development.

The low-carbon transition is no longer the sole preserve of large corporations. For SMEs and microbusinesses, it is a lever for competitiveness, resilience, and attractiveness, thanks to simple and progressive solutions such as Decarbo'Solution®.

The materiality matrix is not just a CSR tool: when well constructed, it guides climate strategy, mobilizes stakeholders, and transforms challenges into concrete actions.

ISO 14001 provides companies with a recognized framework for analyzing, reducing, and managing their environmental impacts, while strengthening competitiveness and credibility.

Between carbon taxation, energy transition, and logistics efficiency, transportation is at the heart of climate strategy. This article explores concrete levers: optimizing flows, choosing appropriate energy sources, mobilizing suppliers, and carbon management tools. The goal: to reduce emissions without sacrificing competitiveness.

Organic products, sustainable packaging... but are your suppliers truly eco-friendly? This article provides you with the right criteria to check and take action.

Finding the right emission factors for scope 3 is essential for a reliable carbon footprint: public databases (ADEME, Defra, EcoInvent), sector-specific data and supplier information must all be cross-referenced, while adapting choices to the sector, level of detail and reality of the company in order to effectively manage its low-carbon transition.

Successful carbon reporting requires more than just a GHG balance sheet, it must involve all teams and link the measurement of emissions to concrete actions for an effective ecological transition.

The Decarbon'Action ® Diagnostic transforms the carbon footprint into a concrete action plan, enabling companies to anchor the ecological transition and sustainable performance at the heart of their strategy.

Structuring a low-carbon trajectory is now essential to remain competitive: thanks to expert support, tailored tools and the involvement of the entire value chain, companies can transform their carbon footprint into a genuine lever for performance, attractiveness and sustainable differentiation.

Faced with the urgency of climate change, companies need to prove their commitment with credible, measurable objectives. Out with greenwashing: in with GHG assessments, rigorous transition plans, and actions in line with ADEME requirements and French environmental standards.

Your suppliers play a key role in the success of your low-carbon transition. Involve them to maximize emissions reductions, meet regulatory requirements and accelerate your company's sustainable transformation.

Email-related digital pollution is a major environmental issue for companies, impacting both their carbon footprint and their CSR policy. Controlling the impact of email and adopting responsible digital practices can significantly reduce an organization's ecological footprint.

Find out what you need to know about environmental labelling: an essential tool for assessing the environmental impact of products and guiding consumers towards more responsible choices, supported by the French Climate Law and European initiatives.

Becoming an eco-responsible company means taking concrete action: eco-designing products, reducing energy and waste, involving teams and choosing responsible partners. Discover 8 key actions to start this sustainable transition.

Organizational Social Responsibility (OSR) refers to the voluntary commitments made by any structure - company, association or administration - to integrate environmental, social and governance issues into its activities.

Carbon footprinting is becoming a strategic lever for managing the low-carbon transition and meeting new regulatory and market requirements.

Carbon debt measures the extent to which our greenhouse gas emissions exceed climate targets, making transition efforts more costly and urgent. For companies, this indicator is becoming an essential strategic lever for steering low-carbon transformation, limiting risks and creating sustainable value.

In 2025, the AGEC law takes a new step forward by imposing reinforced obligations in terms of waste reduction, reuse and repair, with a major impact on businesses and local authorities. These regulatory changes also offer concrete opportunities to innovate, adapt business models and accelerate the transition to a circular, low-carbon economy.

Ecowatt is the weather forecast for electricity: a simple tool for avoiding blackouts and consuming at the right time. Thanks to clear signals, everyone can take action to ensure a more stable network. Businesses and citizens, adopt the right gestures with GCI.

Sustainability means living and producing without compromising tomorrow. A balance between environment, economy and society, for a viable future.

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) provides a robust, recognized and transparent framework for companies to set emissions reduction targets aligned with scientific data.

Carbon neutrality balances CO2 emissions and absorptions. It combines reduction and compensation to limit global warming.

Sustainable finance in Europe guides investments towards responsible projects. With the green taxonomy and the SFDR, it supports the ecological transition.

The CO2 calculator lets you estimate the carbon footprint of an activity or product. It's a key tool for taking action to reduce your environmental impact.

CSR communications highlight a company's sustainable commitments. It builds trust and must remain clear and sincere.

The Greenfin label certifies responsible investments that promote ecological transition. It guarantees a positive impact on the environment.

By 2025, green electricity offers will include guarantees of origin, ensuring traceability of renewable sources and transparency for consumers.

The Net Zero Initiative guides companies towards carbon neutrality by setting out clear rules for reducing emissions and taking concrete action.

The transition from the NFRD to the CSRD strengthens ESG reporting requirements. The CSRD expands the number of companies concerned and imposes greater transparency and precision.

The CSR materiality matrix identifies priority issues for a company and its stakeholders. It guides sustainable and strategic actions.

CSR labels certify a company's commitment to sustainable development and social responsibility.

The GLEC Framework, aligned with international standards such as the GHG Protocol and ISO 14083, provides a structured reference framework for measuring, reporting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the often fragmented and complex logistics sector.

ESG criteria assess the sustainability of companies and guide investments towards responsible, sustainable choices.

The European Green Deal aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 by promoting a sustainable economy, renewable energies and the protection of biodiversity.

The Energy Sobriety Plan aims to reduce energy consumption through simple gestures and sustainable measures, as part of the ecological transition.

Eco-design integrates the environment right from the product design stage. It reduces impacts over the entire life cycle and encourages sustainable innovation.

The EPFD requires certain companies to publish their ESG impacts. It reinforces transparency and the integration of CSR issues.

CSR encourages companies to integrate social, environmental and ethical actions. It aims to reconcile economic performance, positive impact and image enhancement.

The BDESE centralizes essential data for consultation by the CSE. It promotes more transparent and structured social dialogue.

The B Corp label recognizes companies that combine economic performance with positive impact. It recognizes responsible governance, environmental and social practices.

Good news: the Diag Décarbon'Action is back! Co-funded by Bpifrance and ADEME, this scheme enables SMEs and ETIs to structure their low-carbon strategy thanks to expert support and a subsidy of up to 60%.

The ISO 26000 standard guides organizations towards ethical, transparent and sustainable development. It is indicative and not certifiable.

Calculating your tons of CO ₂e is much more than a regulatory obligation: it's a strategic lever for boosting performance, anticipating risks and strengthening your credibility.

The IPCC 2024 warns of +3°C warming by 2100 without action. It calls for immediate emission reductions, a just transition and global action.

ISO 14001 is an international benchmark for environmental management. It helps companies to identify, control and reduce the impact of their activities on the environment.

Carbon offsetting finances sequestration projects to neutralize unavoidable emissions, provided they meet strict criteria and are part of an overall low-carbon strategy.

To avoid falling into the greenwashing trap, this comprehensive guide will help you understand the mechanisms of greenwashing and make more informed choices.

Road transport accounts for almost a third of CO ₂ emissions in France. Faced with the climate emergency, concrete levers exist to rethink logistics and reduce carbon impact.

Maritime transport and the climate challenge: technologies, regulations and strategies to reduce emissions without sacrificing competitiveness. An overview of the keys to sailing towards a sustainable future.

Maritime transport and the climate challenge: technologies, regulations and strategies to reduce emissions without sacrificing competitiveness. An overview of the keys to sailing towards a sustainable future.

Understanding scopes 2 and 3 widens the scope for action to truly reduce a company's carbon footprint.

Awareness-raising, education and customized support enable companies to mobilize their employees, strengthen their CSR culture and make the environmental transition a shared, meaningful project.

Achieving carbon neutrality - the Net Zero Initiative - is an unavoidable goal for preserving our climate, as the experts on the European Union's climate council emphasize.

Transport is a major source of CO2e emissions: optimizing it means taking effective action for a more sustainable model.

Calculating your carbon footprint means understanding the impact of your activities on the environment. It is also a lever for action to reduce emissions and innovate sustainably.

Find out why controlling the carbon footprint of your products has become a strategic issue, and how ISO 14067 provides a reliable framework for meeting this challenge.

The expression "CO ₂ release" is commonly used, but scientifically inaccurate. Yet the term remains an effective benchmark for raising widespread awareness of climate issues.

What if we produced our food without oil and gas? This article explores concrete solutions for transforming the food system and making it a powerful lever in the low-carbon transition.

Optimize your transport carbon footprint with TK'Blue! This reporting tool helps you measure, analyze and reduce GHG emissions. Integrated with GCI, it facilitates compliance and enhances your CSR commitment.

Faced with new climate obligations, companies need to structure their low-carbon plan. Discover the key stages and GCI's solutions for a successful transition.

Carrying out a GHG assessment is a key step for any company wishing to understand and reduce its environmental impact. But once the calculation is complete, the key question is: what next?

An effective CSR approach improves performance and enhances attractiveness to consumers, suppliers and investors.

The latest IPCC report highlights the sectors most affected and the importance of rapid transformation.

By 2020, 75% of companies had already integrated eco-design into their strategy, according to the ADEME barometer. Are you ready to take the plunge?

Comparing GHG balances between companies can be hazardous and counter-productive.

Did you know that 53% of corporate environmental claims are vague, misleading or unfounded, and that 40% have no supporting evidence?

Reducing our carbon footprint is an urgent necessity, and although French emissions have fallen, a profound societal transformation is essential to achieve a low-carbon future by 2050.

Organizations must now publish detailed information on their sustainability and integrate carbon footprint calculations as a key tool for meeting these new requirements.

Corporate GHG assessments are essential to achieving carbon neutrality, but their reliability is often called into question. Between incomplete data, dependence on external databases and the risk of greenwashing, guaranteeing accurate figures remains a major challenge.

Organizing a sporting event, whether it's the Olympic Games, national competitions or a simple local tournament, raises major challenges in terms of environmental impact.

Focus on scopes 1 and 2: These categories cover direct emissions from the company's activities (scope 1) and indirect emissions linked to energy consumption (scope 2).

Organizing an eco-responsible festival requires a precise GHG balance sheet. Reducing carbon emissions from travel, optimizing energy use and better managing waste: concrete solutions for a reduced impact and a committed audience.

Digital technology already accounts for almost 4% of global CO ₂ emissions. This reality, often underestimated, is growing with the multiplication of digital sites and uses.

Transport accounts for a quarter of global emissions. To reduce their carbon footprint, companies can give preference to rail or adopt electric fleets.

Organizing a business event generates a carbon footprint. Measuring these emissions is key to acting responsibly and aligning your CSR commitments.

Adopt a low-carbon strategy combining concrete and ambitious measures.

The carbon tax, a key tool in the energy transition, aims to reduce CO ₂ emissions by taxing polluting activities. While it represents a challenge for businesses, it also offers opportunities for innovation and the transition to sustainable models.

The Net Zero Initiative (NZI) aims to structure and harmonize companies' moves towards carbon neutrality.

Why is a GHG assessment essential for public-sector companies? Find out how this strategic tool can transform your ecological commitments into concrete action.

Carbon footprinting is a key, but insufficient, step towards sustainable transition. The ACT methodology transforms these assessments into actions in line with the Paris Agreement.

Today, integrating sustainability into purchasing decisions is much more than an eco-responsible gesture; it has become an essential CSR strategy.

By educating and training their employees in environmental issues, companies create a major strategic lever.

Reducing their carbon footprint is essential for companies faced with the climate emergency. By adopting energy transition solutions and sustainable practices, they can both comply with regulations and improve their economic performance.

Carbon offsetting players have come in for a great deal of criticism, particularly regarding the use of carbon credits and the methodologies employed. This encourages companies to be cautious.

Emission factors play a key role in producing a GHG balance. It is important to choose them carefully and to know where to find them.

This article explores the concept of carbon neutrality, discussing its importance, and examining the criticisms and challenges associated with its implementation.

This article explores the mechanisms for pricing carbon credits on regulated and voluntary markets.

What is a certified carbon offset project? How is it certified? What types of certification exist? Find out the answers to these questions in this article.

Explore the crucial link between reducing companies' carbon footprints and preserving biodiversity.

Discover the advantages of online tools for carrying out greenhouse gas emissions assessments!

The carbon footprint is a major issue for companies, while at the same time meeting consumer expectations. Discover three concrete tips for reducing your company's carbon footprint.

Some companies opt for carbon offsetting to balance their greenhouse gas emissions. Find out about the advantages, the criticisms and how to optimize this strategy.

Setting up a low-carbon trajectory is a fundamental issue for companies today. Here's how to get started 👉

Here's a detailed guide to help companies make their own contribution to the global goal of carbon neutrality.

It is essential that companies have a reliable solution for calculating their carbon footprint in order to play a key role in reducing GHG emissions.

Innovating without negatively impacting the planet is a major challenge. Here are a few perspectives to help companies meet this challenge.

Decarbonizing the digital sector is a major challenge. But how can we achieve it? Here are a few concrete measures to help your company.

Emissions linked to transport are very significant and require concrete action to reduce them.

LCA is an essential asset for companies wishing to reduce their carbon footprint and remain competitive in the marketplace.

Should you carry out these actions in-house, or use an external service provider, which is simpler in the short term, but also more expensive?

There is an essential lever for decarbonizing its activity: the involvement of suppliers, who represent 50 to 90% of Scope 3 emissions.

The carbon footprint is becoming the mandatory indicator for the ecological transition and the sustainability of all companies.

Every day, it becomes more and more imperative for every organization to embark on a Low-Carbon trajectory to guarantee its Carbon Competitiveness ®, the key to its long-term survival.

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.

Since July 1, 2022, the government's "transition plan" has been stricter. Companies are obliged to calculate their carbon footprint and establish a low-carbon trajectory by considering the *global* volume of their GHG emissions. Companies must also demonstrate the coherence of their long-term low-carbon trajectory.

Corporate Social Responsibility: CSR and Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs - two acronyms to know

Since the Paris Agreement, countries and companies have agreed on the importance of acting against global warming, i.e. acting on their carbon footprint by limiting their GHG emissions. Solutions have been developed to help companies commit and accelerate their ecological transition. To facilitate the implementation of these reduction solutions, the realization of a GHG assessment is the ideal solution.

The new decree of July 1, 2022, which imposes scope 3 and a reduction action plan, and the 2022 Finance Act, which requires most companies with more than 50 employees to also carry out a GHG assessment, albeit initially in a simplified form, confirm the growing regulatory pressure.

A complete balance sheet is the inventory of GHG emissions through three categories, also called scopes. The objective is to categorize greenhouse gas emissions by item or by type of activity of a company. The integration of all these emissions in a GHG assessment allows a complete review and then, to engage solutions to reduce them.

To improve the energy performance of existing buildings, the law goes further with the "tertiary decree", which is much more restrictive and monitored. The latter aims to accelerate the reduction of energy consumption in public and private buildings. Several solutions are outlined in the existing regulations.

Since the beginning of July 2022, new regulatory constraints on reporting, defining and demonstrating the low-carbon pathway of companies have been imposed by a new decree with immediate application. These new obligations considerably expand the scope of emissions to be taken into account.

A carbon credit is a unit equivalent to one tonne of CO2 avoided or sequestered. How is it calculated? What is its role and how does it work?

Scope 3 covers all indirect greenhouse gas emissions associated with an organization's activity. It therefore represents many more GHG emissions than Scopes 1 and 2, which only account for direct and indirect energy-related emissions.

GCI offers on its website a free downloadable guide "How to perpetuate and strengthen your company through a successful low-carbon trajectory", this guide has 3 objectives: to explain simply what a low-carbon assessment and strategy consists of, to demonstrate the opportunities for developing its performance, to present concrete examples

The Purchasing function is at the heart of the company's operations. The implementation of responsible purchasing is an effective lever for implementing sustainable development and a policy of social responsibility (CSR) within the organization.

Calculating your carbon footprint, a process for all companies? Philippe Mangeard, director of the Global Climate Initiatives platform, presents the course of his digital calculation platform and gives you his advice to help companies and entrepreneurs improve their energy performance.

Carbon neutrality by 2050 requires immediate action. Find out how you can take action to reduce residual emissions with reduction actions and carbon offsetting.

The carbon footprint calculates a company's total greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide... emissions of several types of gas are reviewed. The aim of this approach is to give a company a precise idea of its carbon footprint.

Explore the essentials of corporate decarbonization, highlighting the importance of carbon footprint. Discover the French Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC), and ADEME's key milestones, and benefit from enlightening testimonials from Pierre Montagne, President of Terneo, and Cécile Suquet, CSR Manager at LCL.

There are two types of carbon market: the regulated market, also called the compliance market, which depends on the regulatory obligations arising from the Kyoto Protocol; and the voluntary market, which allows people to voluntarily offset their GHG emissions.

Doing a carbon footprint report gives an account of the carbon footprint of an organization. It allows for the quantification of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions directly or indirectly generated by an organization.

The tertiary sector covers a wide range of activities. It ranges from trade to administration, including transport, financial and real estate activities, business and personal services, education, health and social work. Because of its different sectors of activity, the possibilities for reducing emissions are many and varied.

The secondary sector includes all activities consisting of a more or less elaborate transformation of raw materials (manufacturing industry, construction). Industrial actors and their financiers are directly concerned by the anticipation of climate change and the construction of a low-carbon economy

The primary sector includes all activities whose purpose is to exploit natural resources: agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining, deposits. This sector is the first to be affected by global warming and could therefore benefit from the reduction of emissions, including its own. Agriculture and the agri-food industry are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The GHG assessment is the identification and the precise quantification, complete and following the regulations, of the greenhouse gas emissions of a company or an organization, in order to find ways to reduce them. To be effective, the carbon footprint must take into account the company's sector of activity.

According to Philippe Mangeard, the carbon footprint can be the starting point for a new organization of the company decided collectively and baptized with a nice word: low carbon strategy. What we also need to understand is that we cannot reduce our carbon footprint alone within the company, we need to involve our ecosystem.

Any company that is interested in carrying out a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment will have heard two terms: Carbon Footprint and GHG Footprint. Although they have a similar approach, i.e. the accounting of greenhouse gases emitted by an entity or organization for its activities, some particularities differentiate them, such as the definition of the scope of accounting of emissions.

Calculating one's carbon impact on our environment starts with an intention to work in an eco-responsible way. However, the ecogesture aspect may not echo your aspirations and priorities as a business leader, however, the realization of a carbon footprint allows much more than that! It can be done for economic reasons or used as a commercial argument.

The law requires companies with more than 50 employees to simply make their scope 1 report, i.e. the most uninteresting part of the report, which only concerns direct energy consumption: diesel, gasoline, wood, coal. What is most interesting in a carbon footprint is scope 2, the energy that we buy: electricity, heat, cold, but especially scope 3, as Philippe Mangeard explains.

Understand in 4 minutes, in all simplicity, the Carbon Footprint and the interest to involve your suppliers.

Global Climate Initiatives was set up in 2012 to enable anyone, whether a company or a local authority, to carry out a simple, independent carbon audit, and thus identify ways of reducing emissions. The Circular Economy is one 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.

Adaptation to climate change is necessary, but mitigation is essential to limit the costs of adaptation.

The carbon footprint is a diagnosis of the direct and indirect emissions of an organization in order to identify reduction actions.

Simple eco-gestures to organize and maintain a responsible event in the fight for the climate

Useful, practical and free eco-gestures to improve economic and environmental performance in the industry.

Simple green habits to improve your economic and environmental performance throughout your transport chain

At work it is also possible to act for the climate: here are some simple green habits to reduce your ecological footprint.

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.