GHG Emissions by Sector

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Establishing a low-carbon pathway is a fundamental challenge for businesses today. Here's how to do it 👉

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

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

Should these tasks be handled in-house, or should we hire an outside vendor—which is simpler in the short term but also more expensive?

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

Simple eco-friendly practices for organizing and hosting a sustainable event as part of the fight against climate change

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

Simple eco-friendly practices to improve your economic and environmental performance across your entire transportation chain

You can also take action to protect the climate at work: here are a few simple eco-friendly tips to reduce your ecological footprint.

The low-carbon transition in the construction industry involves much more than just an emissions assessment. It requires a structured approach capable of integrating analysis, operational priorities, and long-term management, in line with regulatory requirements and on-the-ground realities.

Driven by European requirements, the DPEF is becoming a key tool for carbon-intensive companies, linking non-financial reporting with strategic management.

Why the Greenfin Label has become a key tool for demonstrating the credibility and actual performance of projects with an environmental impact.

Why a clear and measurable low-carbon strategy has become essential for effectively managing corporate emissions reductions.

The BDESE is a structuring tool that centralizes social, economic, and environmental data and supports sustainability management and dialogue with the CSE.

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.

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.

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.

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 toward carbon neutrality by establishing clear guidelines for reducing their 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.

ESG criteria assess the sustainability of companies and guide investments toward responsible and 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 DPEF requires certain companies to disclose their ESG impacts. It enhances 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Establishing a low-carbon pathway is a fundamental challenge for businesses today. Here's how to do it 👉

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

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 this? Here are some concrete steps to help your company.

Transportation-related emissions are very significant and require the implementation of concrete measures to reduce them.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.