Global Climate Initiatives helps companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint

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The Global Climate Initiatives platform, whose R&D is based in Nice, France, allows any company or community to measure its global carbon footprint and obtain advice on how to reduce it.

Philippe Mangeard is a character with dozens of business creations.

"I certainly have innovative ideas, but the genius is my wife!"

Régine Mangeard, a telecom engineer and math graduate, has the ability and determination to translate her husband's ideas into effective IT solutions for thirty years. After creating - among others - the company TK'Blue in 2011, which calculates the carbon footprint of transport and its CSR impact, they are now extending their services to all types of companies to enable them to establish their GHG balance sheet independently.

Did TK'Blue flop? 

"Oh no! We have convinced several thousand clients in eight years, including Carrefour, Unilever, Amazon and Renault. But as long as it is not mandatory, companies are not in a hurry to measure their transport impact alone. So we've expanded our offering to cover all of their activities." 

Global Climate Initiatives (GCI), a carbon footprint expert founded in June 2020, is giving the platform a new "global and worldwide" commercial scope. With its head office in Paris, administrative center in Strasbourg, and R&D department based in Nice, GCI is aiming for 80% growth in 2021, and 200% in 2022.

DESACRALIZE

Using an online educational questionnaire, each of the company's activities is transformed into a carbon footprint, "in just a few hours" explains the boss. Here's an example of a carbon footprint.

"Big names have already signed up, such as Bouygues, Derichebourg, the Tour de France Cycling, and locally the Mane Group, Ineldea Laboratories... The momentum of the law [the 2020 European Council insisted on the objectives of the Green Pact for Europe including carbon neutrality by 2050, ed. note] will reinforce the success of our solution." 

With the support of some fifty experts, GCI intends to dispel the idea that carrying out a GHG assessment is tedious and costly. On the contrary, Philippe Mangeard assures us: "Carrying out a GHG assessment always allows you to make a financial profit!"

THE FATHER OF THE RAILWAY HIGHWAY

Optimodality. Philippe Mangeard claims to be the author of this word. Because he is the one who set up, with the collaboration of the Lohr group, the transport of trucks on SNCF trains (first line between France and Italy in 2003, 1 ton of CO2 less for each trip).

Since then, the SNCF has taken over and developed this control of railroad highways, which was well included in the Castex government's plan.