How is SOCOTEC reducing its environmental impact ?
Since 2022, SOCOTEC has been implementing an environmental policy dedicated to the operational management of its activities.
Reducing our own environmental impact is at the heart of our action plans.
To reduce its carbon footprint, the Group is working on a number of levers to make its activities more energy-efficient.
Action levers relating to scopes 1 & 2 GHG emissions:
- Sustainable mobility policy: electrification of the vehicle fleet, plan to develop recharging stations at SOCOTEC sites and at employees' homes, optimization of business travel, eco-driving awareness, alternative studies linked to soft mobility, etc.
- A sustainable real estate policy to optimize the energy performance of SOCOTEC's sites: real-time monitoring and control of energy consumption for 100% of our buildings and sites, action plans for under-performing agencies, awareness-raising on eco-actions, electricity contracts based on renewable energies.
Levers for action on scope 3 GHG emissions:
- Sober digital practices: monitoring and optimizing IT consumption, raising awareness of good digital practices in energy management and eco-gestures, eliminating individual printers, reducing the number of printers in open spaces, single device per person policy, putting 100% of obsolete IT and telephone equipment on the re-use circuit each year, re-use and extension of equipment lifespans, etc.
- A responsible purchasing policy: CSR criteria in calls for tender, choice of the “just necessary”, extension of product life, recycling at the end of product life, sourcing of local suppliers, CSR assessment of suppliers.
- A policy of responsible management of operational waste: promoting the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste generated by our operations.
Decarbonization trajectory 2030:
Since December 2024, SOCOTEC has made a commitment to the SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) to set short-term targets for reducing emissions from its value chain in line with the trajectory of warming limited to 1.5°C determined in the Paris Agreements.
Initial work, based on the SBTi methodology, has enabled us to determine a 42% reduction trajectory for scopes 1 and 2 emissions (direct GHG emissions) for the Group between 2023 and 2030.
Work is also underway on scope 3 (indirect GHG emissions) to enable the definition of decarbonization objectives in relation to its supply chain by the end of 2026.
