“I HAVE PUT ACTING ON CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE HEART OF OUR GROUP PRIORITIES.”
Aiman Ezzat, Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini
Environmental sustainability
We’re taking action to address climate change, one of the biggest societal challenge that we’ve faced in generations.
As a responsible business, we’re determined to play a leadership role in ensuring technology creates a sustainable future. We drive internal change across every aspect of our operations, while helping our clients address their own environmental challenges. We also team up with our partners and suppliers, start-ups, policy-makers, governments and academics, to make sustainable progress together aligned to the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We have been committed to managing our resources effectively and cutting our carbon emissions for many years, and were one of the first companies in our sector to have our carbon reduction targets validated by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). We have a strengthened ambition to achieve a 90% reduction in all carbon emissions across scopes 1,2 and 3 and become a net zero business by 2040. Our new targets have been validated as being in line with the Science Based Target initiative’s (SBTi ) new Corporate Net-Zero Standard. This standard is the world’s first framework for corporate net zero target setting and is in line with the level of reduction needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
In December 2022, our leadership position in tackling climate change was again recognized by global environmental non-profit CDP, who positioned us on their prestigious ‘A list’.
Our objectives
*Our initial objective, as published in our ESG Policy in 2021, was to become net zero well ahead of 2050. Since then, we have refined our net zero targets in line with the Science Based Target initiative’s (SBTi ) new Corporate Net-Zero Standard. Capgemini’s refined net zero targets have been assessed by the SBTi and were approved in July 2022. Our new net zero headline target is to achieve a 90% reduction in carbon emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2040, compared to a baseline of 2019. For more information please refer to Capgemini Environmental Sustainability Report 2021/2022
Progressing on our journey to net zero
The net zero transformation at the scale and pace we have targeted is ambitious. It materially impacts every aspect of the way we operate, from procurement and IT operations to people policies and business models.
We are accelerating our approach to carbon reduction across our key impact areas:
Our impact
A List
recognition from the CDP for leadership in tackling climate change87%
of our electricity now comes from renewable sources93%
Capgemini headcount covered by Global EMS 14001Expert perspectives
Sustainability
How net zero became our new normal – our progress towards ambitious sustainability targets
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Inside stories
Future-shaping projects
Hunting for dragons
Sarah Gonçalves wasn’t always a data engineer. She began her career as an archaeologist, unearthing the secrets of the past in sites across France before retraining as a data engineer. She brings the same curiosity to her new vocation at Capgemini, using artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover what lies beneath the surface.
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Our approach to ESG
Our conviction is that there has never been a better time to leverage technology and human capabilities to tackle environment, social and governance (ESG) challenges.