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Ecological Transition
The Low Carbon Strategy provides guidelines for transforming the School's entire business model to transition to a low carbon, circular and sustainable economy. It aims to define a trajectory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement, and sets short to medium-term targets: carbon budgets. This goal will require major efforts and a deep transformation of business models. It's also an opportunity for Audencia to regain control of the school's various streams and provide a systemic vision of its relationships and various impacts (GHG and others) with its environment.
Low Carbon Strategy
The Low Carbon Strategy has been developed using the results of the "Climate Change" component of Audencia's Multicapital Accounting (LIFTS® methodology), whose methodology aims to implement on a corporate scale the vision of the "donut theory" developed by Kate Raworth. The Donut Theory proposes an economy that is "just and safe for humanity," which is what people need to meet the great challenges they face. As such, it provides a compass for the economy to enable human needs to be met within the limits of what the planet can provide.
For the carbon component, the multi-capital methodology involved attaching carbon impacts to each accounting entry, allowing the analysis of the school's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be refined to ensure that the action cursor is placed in the right place.
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reduction of GHG emissions by 2030
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purchases of goods and services affected by an internal carbon price
Roadmap
The Roadmap is the pre-implementation document for Audencia's Low Carbon Strategy. It aims to provide a framework for the various commitments associated with the strategy (target year, time horizon, etc.).
Action plan and implementation
Also known as a "low carbon strategy," the action plan outlines the school's strategy for achieving its reduction goals.
This plan is organized around 5 themes (Organizational, Awareness, Procurement, Real Estate, Mobility and Digital) and includes 10 actions divided into 42 goals (about five goals per action), covering topics related to carbon impacting the school, such as procurement management, events and responsible food, but also around the themes of mobility, digital.
The goal of the low-carbon strategy is to engage the various departments and services in a positive dynamic.
Tracking of goal achievement can be analyzed in a single summary table:
In addition, monitoring of the implementation of this action plan will be recorded in a document that will be regularly updated in line with the school's progress on the low carbon strategy:
Consult the implementation (forthcoming publication)
- Create a Low Carbon Community
- Prepare a GHG inventory each year
- Commit to SBTI (trajectory consistent with Paris Agreements)
- Evaluation of the low-carbon strategy using ADEME's ACT methodology
- Develop an internal school carbon price
- Make data collection more reliable, improve collection processes
- Meet with the different departments (ERC: avoid, reduce, compensate)
- Identify problems that cannot be reduced
- Identify local compensation projects
- Create a community to share information and best practice internally
- Determine awareness raising methods by stakeholder
- Development of a carbon calculator for service providers
- Disseminate best practice and strive for transparency in the process
- Centralize and reference suppliers
- Define responsible purchasing criteria for PDOs
- Define responsible sourcing criteria outside of PDOs
- Systematization of actors in the field of re-employment (neutral carbon footprint)
- Organize waste management
- Improve Costing of Company Restaurant and Cafeteria (Feedback)
- Reduce the food footprint (fighting food waste and container waste, promoting short-circuiting, introducing more vegetarian meals, etc.).
- Raise awareness of the food footprint
- Awareness and training for the advisor community
- Select environmentally responsible suppliers/providers
- Creation and distribution of an Audencia Eco-Event Charter
- Break major topics into themes/levels
- Involve and train student organizations in organizing events
- Labeling/Certification of our events
- Join a collective dynamic, network
- Optimize and strengthen the management of our raw materials
- Optimize print resources
- Analyze and define print rules
- Reduce consumption by 10% between 2019 and 2023 (sobriety plan)
- Reduce consumption by 40% by 2030 (tertiary sector decree)
- Consider an environmental reporting system for buildings
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- Mobility Plan Development
- Update of the travel policy
- Integrate CO2 impact into the booking software validation process
- Improve data collection
- Influence reduction by suggesting alternative modes of transportation
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- Design and implement a carbon calculator
- Conduct a We'NR Audit
- Implementation of the first actions resulting from the We'NR audit
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Sobriety plan
The energy crisis requires an accelerated change in the way we operate towards a more sustainable society. In this context, Audencia has decided to do its part by voluntarily publishing a sobriety plan.
The MESRI recommends that grandes écoles set a target to reduce consumption by 10% in 2023 compared to 2019. Audencia's strategy is therefore based on this objective.
The sobriety plan becomes a complementary roadmap to the school's low-carbon strategy.
Methodology
To operationalize these reduction targets, Audencia has begun experimenting with a multi-capital accounting system based on the LIFTS® Accounting Model (Limits and Foundations Towards Sustainability Accounting Model) methodology.
This allows the company to integrate its GHG performance into its management control system, so that the various departments can be held accountable for GHG emission reduction targets specific to their activities.
This tool allows the company to distribute the reduction target among the various stakeholders and to monitor performance in meeting the target. It also allows the analysis of the school's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be refined to ensure that the action cursor is in the right place.
Consult the methodology (forthcoming publication)