Mobilize your employees to reduce your carbon footprint and build a resilient future

💚 Environmental transition at the heart of employee concerns

For companies, raising awareness of climate issues is the primary lever for transformation. A well-informed team actively participates in achieving environmental objectives to reduce GHG emissions and carbon footprint management.

According to a study by the CSA Institute for LinkedIn and ADEME, 71% of employees say they are taking action to promote the environmental transition within their company, reflecting a growing interest in green initiatives.

Involving employees in this way is essential to consolidating the organization's corporate social responsibility (CSR) culture. More than one in two employees would like to be better informed about their company's climate issues, motivated by a desire to contribute to sustainability projects such as carbon audits and the implementation of concrete measures to reduce their company's environmental impact.

Soliciting the views of your employees can prove beneficial, especially as their participation in the implementation ofa climate strategy will enable them to contribute to highlighting the company's values. Internal communication by the company's management is therefore a viable option.

🤝Management support: an essential lever

Management commitment is crucial to the success of awareness-raising initiatives. Setting up sustainability governance, supported by committed leaders, reinforces this transition, especially when GHG and carbon footprint management are priorities.

A Deloitte study shows that sustainability programs are key drivers of loyalty and engagement for retail companies. In fact, 72% of employees in sustainable companies rarely consider changing jobs, compared with just 40% in companies lagging behind on this subject. What's more, 85% of employees in these leading companies find real fulfillment in their work, a key value in a context of fierce competition for talent.

In addition to meeting new regulations, such as the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), this awareness-raising helps companies to understand the costs associated with environmental risks, and to strengthen their resilience in a demanding market on sustainability issues.

🙋‍♀️ Participatory methods for raising environmental awareness

Companies now have interactive methods and tools for raising employee awareness of decarbonization objectives and carbon footprints. These methods make the issues tangible and understandable, positively influencing day-to-day behavior.

 

📄 Internal communication channel (newsletters on environmental issues, bulletin board dedicated to the company's environmental initiatives)

• Companies can send out regular newsletters to inform on updates and progress on environmental initiatives, as well as offering advice on how to further reduce their GHG emissions.
• What's more, a notice board in the common areas, displaying concrete results and targets to be achieved, enhances the visibility of these practices and encourages collective commitment to a sustainable ecological impact.

 

♻️ Responsible and committed consumption

• Sustainable mobility
  Encouraging the use of public transport, bicycles, car-pooling or electric vehicles helps reduce the carbon footprint associated with daily travel.
• Internal campaigns
  Raising awareness through campaigns to optimize energy consumption (turning off lights, unplugging unused equipment) and manage waste sustainably (recycling, reducing plastics). These daily actions encourage employees to adopt eco-responsible practices.
• Collective commitment
  → These gestures foster a culture of environmental responsibility, reinforcing the ecological impact and commitment of teams.
  → Promoting more sustainable waste management and sensible energy consumption within teams is essential to achieving the company's environmental objectives.

By promoting these simple but effective practices, the company enables its employees to become aware of their environmental footprint and adopt eco-responsible behavior on a daily basis. This collective dynamic helps to reduce our ecological impact, while reinforcing our teams' commitment to a shared goal of sustainability.

 

💡 Collaborative brainstorming sessions

Set up workshops where employees can put forward ideas for improving sustainability within the company, whether in waste management, reducing energy consumption or promoting greener mobility.

 

🍃Environmental theme days

Dedicate certain days to specific themes, such as "zero waste day", "sustainable mobility week" or "energy saving day". This raises employee awareness of the impact of their actions on the environment on a daily basis, and promotes a collective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

 

♾️ Training in sustainable practices

Engage your employees in environmental issues through interactive workshops such as La Fresque du Climat, while offering targeted training in sustainable practices.

Global Climate Initiatives (GCI) is aware of the importance of raising employee awareness of environmental issues, and offers customized training and support to help companies make sustainability a core part of their strategy.

GCI offers tailor-made training and tools to help each organization track its greenhouse gas emissions, establish a solid carbon footprint and develop actions to reduce their carbon footprint.

The aim is to support companies in their ecological transition, while improving their long-term competitiveness.

The tools available on the GCI platform enable companies to structure a sustainable development approach, taking into account sector-specific features and environmental objectives. By adopting a rigorous approach, companies can better meet regulatory requirements while strengthening their ecological commitment.

To support companies in this transition, GCI's carbon engineers, experts in the Bilan Carbone® method (level 2, ABC) and in methodologies such as ADEME's "Act Pas à Pas", put their know-how at the service of each organization, guiding them step by step towards concrete, adapted sustainability.

➡️ Support modules

🍃 Bilan GES: Complete support for carrying out the GHG assessment, including project scoping, data collection and assessment, enabling the company to become aware of its environmental impacts and take concrete action to reduce its emissions.

📊 Action plan: Support in interpreting the results of the assessment, co-constructing an action plan, and steering the company towards a more sustainable model.

📦 PCF and LCA: Assistance in producing Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) and single-carbon life cycle analyses (LCAs), with a rigorous, tailored and auditable methodological approach.

🧑‍🏭 Supplier enrolment: Support for supplier enrolment via Supplier'Connect® as part of a strong strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

➡️ Training to raise awareness of energy and climate issues

This training program, made up of several modules, helps to integrate sustainable practices into the corporate culture, while educating employees about the effects of climate change and the sustainable development strategies to adopt.

• Module 1 - Climate and energy fundamentals
• Module 2 - Methodological approach to GHG assessment
• Module 3 - Preparing your GHG report with GCI
• Module 4 - Drawing up a GHG balance sheet and reducing GHG emissions.

➡️La Fresque du Climat by GCI: Understanding the challenges and global impacts of global warming

The Climate Fresco is a workshop that enables employees to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. By making scientific knowledge accessible and encouraging dialogue, this workshop stimulates collective environmental awareness. 💡This collective intelligence workshop enables participants to reconstruct the cause-and-effect links of these changes, and explore actions to be taken on both a personal and professional level. → Our carbon engineers, trained and experienced in the running of the Fresque du Climat, are available to organize these workshops directly within companies.This makes it easier for teams to commit to a concrete environmental transition.

➡️L GCI Academy

The GCI Academy is an essential service for companies wishing to train independently on the GCI platform. It explains the platform's various functions in three structured series. Ultimately, companies will be able to assess the carbon footprint of their activities or goods and services, and reduce their GHG emissions more effectively. ▶️ Three self-training courses with video tutorials, to make learning accessible and practical. 📄 A document area rich in methodological support, to help companies draw up a GHG balance sheet accompanied by a reduction action plan. ❓ FAQ and compartmentalized according to the platform's different menus and functionalities. By adopting these solutions, companies can accelerate their commitment to a more sustainable business model, while meeting today's environmental and economic challenges. For companies, raising awareness and providing training on environmental issues is a crucial step, even before carrying out a carbon assessment. By integrating a collective understanding of energy and climate issues, employees are better prepared to take concrete action and sustainably reduce their company's impact.. By embedding this approach in the corporate culture, we strengthen organizational resilience while meeting stakeholder expectations for a more sustainable, low-carbon future.