What was your CSR strategy before contacting Sami?

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The CSR approach of the company is like the company itself: still young.

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The social and societal aspects of CSR are the most structured, with particular attention paid to achieving parity within the team, which is already showing its first results.

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Things are progressing step by step.

No secret, it is the people on the team who are sensitive to these issues and willing to work on them that make things progress.

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And we don't lack these people at our place!

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Had you already conducted a carbon footprint?

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We had already calculated our own carbon footprint for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.

We self-trained in the calculation methodology to carry out this calculation internally based on the documentation available online.

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The goal was to be able to measure the impact of our activities, first in absolute terms to get an idea of the orders of magnitude.

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Then also in relative terms, to really understand which parts of our business are most dependent on fossil energies and linked to the most greenhouse gas emissions.

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Before communicating about our results, particularly in the context of tenders, we wanted them to be verified or audited by a specialized company.

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Why did you choose Sami?

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We chose to work with Sami simply because we follow them on LinkedIn.

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We appreciate their work of monitoring and explaining regulatory developments that affect companies around carbon.

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At the beginning, we did not fully understand the interest of choosing a service provider equipped with an online platform to measure the carbon footprint.

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Now that we have gone through the entire process, this would clearly be one of our selection criteria if we had to do it again! The time saved is considerable.

Until you do it once, you don't realize the importance of equipping yourself with an online tool, which is even more collaborative.

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What did you think of Sami?

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We are very satisfied with the work done with Sami.

All our initial objectives are met, and even others that we had not identified beforehand.

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What impressed us the most, I think, is the adaptability of the Sami platform, allowing for a custom calculation based on our specificities and the data we had or did not have available.

Thus, we were able to value our water-cooled air conditioning, an uncommon model although more virtuous than a conventional air conditioning system.

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When making a few corrections following the presentation of the results, we also felt the power of the platform, allowing us to modify certain data in a flash.

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Finally, our dedicated expert Pauline was always very available and pedagogical, we learned a lot about climate and carbon accounting.

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What are the main lessons from your carbon footprint?

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The carbon footprint recalculated by Sami is double what we had calculated ourselves.

This is the main surprise of this work.

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Our calculations were not wrong, on the contrary they were even very close to Sami's.

But we did not take into account all aspects of our activities, forgetting some of our main emission items such as our purchases or our service providers.

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This is where the expertise of a specialized company has been very useful, ensuring that certain aspects of our emissions are not forgotten in the calculation and being able to certify the results.

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We also note that the results of a company's carbon footprint are not intuitive, and it is difficult to estimate them without going through this measurement step.

This further reinforces the importance in our eyes of doing our carbon footprint, to understand our impact

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What are the next steps before next year?

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We are currently in full reflection on our action plan, pushed by our expert Pauline who is also accompanying us on this part.

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The catalog of ideas proposed by Sami to complement their action plan proposal is vast, allowing us to find actions that fit our activity and our possibilities.

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The detailed action sheets and service provider recommendations are very practical for taking action easily, all the preparatory work has been done in advance by Sami!

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We have already opted for a supplier of refurbished computer equipment, and are considering the next things to implement.

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