GreenFlex Sustainable development strategy and roadmap Implementation of the ACT approach Develop a strategy to reduce your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using the ACT® step-by-step method Today, in all sectors of activity, integrating the challenges of fighting climate change into your activities is a key expectation of your customers, consumers, public authorities, banks and financing institutions. To help you develop a strategy for reducing your direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions that is in line with your company’s strategy, ambitious and pragmatic, we can help you with the ACT® step-by-step method. Defining a decarbonization strategy: an essential part of the fight against climate change Becoming carbon neutral cannot be improvised. It is a real company project, requiring a precise overview of its emissions and the full integration of an objective to reduce its direct and indirect emissions at the heart of its global strategy. A decarbonization strategy can gradually provide answers to the following questions: What is my company’s current climate action situation? How mature is my organisation’s GHG emissions reduction strategy? What are the issues and challenges for my company in the context of a world committed to the transition to a low-carbon world? What is my company’s ideal positioning in the context of a world committed to a low-carbon transition? How can I define a short-, medium- and long-term roadmap to achieve this ideal? How can I transform my decarbonization transition roadmap into a 3 to 5 year strategic plan in line with my company’s strategic plan? How can this strategic plan be translated into a concrete, actionable and bankable action plan? To achieve this, we need to act methodically and within a recognised framework: that’s what the ACT® Step by Step initiative is all about. The ACT® (Assessing Low-carbon Transition) initiative: the official framework for defining and assessing companies’ low-carbon strategies The ACT® initiative was launched at COP21 in 2015 by ADEME, the French Agency for Ecological Transition, and CDP, the global climate information system, to steer companies’ climate actions, culminating in the approach. ACT is supported by the French government as one of the flagship initiatives and is part of the Global Climate Agenda of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) secretariat with a view to international deployment. The ACT® step-by-step method: the official reference framework for defining GHG emission reduction strategies Developing an emissions reduction strategy using the ACT® step-by-step method ensures that it is based on an official, recognised and verifiable methodology. The method aims to ensure that the strategy for reducing carbon impacts is consistent with the company’s strategy and that it is taken on board at the highest decision-making level, that the reduction ambition is in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and that the strategy is implemented on an operational level. Prerequisites If you would like to embark on a step-by-step ACT® approach, there are several prerequisites to be met: Appoint a member of the Board of Directors as “Project Sponsor”. Appoint a team member as Project Coordinator, who must complete the ACT® “step-by-step” training course. To have carried out a carbon assessment within the last 2 years. It is strongly recommended that this GHG balance sheet covers scopes 1, 2 and 3 and complies with the ISO 14064 standard, ideally using the ABC Bilan Carbone® method. Report to ADEME on the progress of the approach at 3 checkpoints involving the company’s management The benefits When you commit to the ACT® step-by-step approach, you can then communicate on the compliance of your approach with this official methodology. It also receives financial support from the public authorities, who subsidise the cost of certified consultants to support the process. The subsidy rates for these support costs are: 70% for small enterprises 60% for medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 50% for large companies (ETIs and major groups) GreenFlex: your ideal partner for developing your ACT® step-by-step reduction strategy To support companies in their approach, GreenFlex consultants are ACT® certified “step-by-step”. GreenFlex draws on recognised technical expertise in measuring GHG emissions, defining science-based targets, qualifying and quantifying reduction actions, and developing low-carbon trajectories, all of which provide you with the relevant insight into your specific characteristics for a low-carbon transition. This technical expertise is coupled with solid skills in supporting the development of extra-financial strategies and their integration into your corporate strategy. Tools such as sector trend analysis, internal and external stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation help to harness the collective intelligence of your employees and partners to help you define your positioning and strategic roadmap. Finally, GreenFlex has the capacity and experience to implement reduction actions, whether they require material investment, so that strategies can be effectively translated into concrete action plans that can be implemented and financed. 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