GreenFlex Expertise Decarbonization

Decarbonization

Why and how to decarbonize? Discover the benefits of the approach and how GreenFlex can help you

Why decarbonize?

To limit global warming to 1.5°C, as well as environmental and social crises, organisations and businesses are getting organised. Companies, for their part, are changing their business model and rethinking their activities and value chains by putting carbon at the heart of their strategy.

Results of our customer assignments

300,000

T of CO₂ avoided each year

Decarbonization: which actions, which objectives?

The decarbonization process involves several different stages: measuring and understanding emissions, defining a roadmap, reducing emissions and finally having a positive impact by contributing to carbon sequestration or emissions reduction projects.

Aerial view of a road in the middle of a forest

A low-carbon path is based on 4 pillars:

MEASURE

Quantify and understand your emissions sources
Defining your decarbonization objectives
Drawing up an operational and financial roadmap
Managing the deployment of your action plan and the evolution of your carbon performance with GreenFlexIQ

REDUCE EMISSIONS…

Reducing and optimising energy consumption
Implementing more sustainable logistics: deploying soft mobility and carbon-free mobility systems and associated infrastructure (charging points for electric vehicles).
Designing and implementing low-carbon facilities
Maximise the site’s potential by recovering and reusing waste heat, installing renewable energy production systems for self-consumption and optimising with storage/flexibility solutions.
Decarbonizing residual energy needs
Sourcing low-carbon materials, reducing wastage of resources and recovering residual waste as part of a circular economy approach (reduction, repair, reuse, recycling, recovery).

… AND THOSE OF OTHERS

Eco-designing products and services to reduce their environmental impact throughout their lifecycle, from upstream to downstream
Joining or setting up local energy loops

STORE

Create or support products and services that sequester carbon
Financing emission reduction projects

These decarbonization strategies enable organisations and companies to seize opportunities to:

Be more competitive: anticipate increases in energy costs and CO2 prices, benefit from subsidies to implement projects (premiums White Certificates, industrial subsidies) or have access to more favourable financing conditions.
Differentiate yourself and see your products or services preferred by customers or users because of their low-carbon nature
Demonstrate its commitment and responsibility in meeting the expectations of its various stakeholders (suppliers, investors, employees, NGOs, etc.).
Comply with current regulations (carbon accounting, EU taxonomy, etc.).

How we support you

With its 90 sustainable development and decarbonization consultants and 220 energy efficiency engineers, GreenFlex can help you build your strategy, implement, and finance your action plan and manage your environmental performance to help you achieve your decarbonization objectives.

We provide training to all engineering and consultancy firms to help them support their customers.

Moreover, you’ll benefit from a platform ensuring a high-quality response to your regulatory challenges (CSRD, GHG Protocol).

Our expertise

Development of low-carbon products and services: impact assessment and eco-design of products and services to improve their impact, particularly their carbon footprint, over their entire life cycle.
Energy efficiency: reduce and optimise energy consumption and bills by analysing, controlling and renovating buildings, processes and equipment
Renewable energy: identify local resource opportunities (sunshine, waste heat that can be recovered, waste that can be recycled), size the installation, implement, and finance the project.
Electric vehicle charging points: support and finance their installation to promote less carbon-intensive mobility and meet stakeholders’ expectations
Local energy loops: identify renewable and recovered energies (heat, cooling, electricity, hydrogen) and mobilise a range of public and private stakeholders to build a loop tailored to the region’s needs.