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What was your CSR strategy before contacting Sami?
The Sipa Ouest-France group has an engaged CSR strategy on the different social, economic and environmental aspects.
This strategy is framed by the principles that govern us such as Humanism and Responsible Journalism.
You can find our different sustainable development and transparency commitments within our 2021 CSR report.
At the environmental level, being an ETI, we report our CO2 emissions.
However, by contacting Sami we wanted to move to the next level to the next level to know the biggest sources of emissions and thus prioritize our actions.
Had you already done a carbon footprint?
We have been carrying out carbon footprints since 2014. However, these carbon footprints were not carried out for the entire group.
Our ambition is to carry out our first consolidated carbon footprint at group level by the horizon 2023.
Why did you choose Sami?
Following a call for tenders, we chose Sami for its support. We were convinced by the dedicated carbon expert very clear and ... really expert.
The platform is intuitive and understandable, while allowing us to calculate our emissions over a wider perimeter, but also in a more precise way than before.
Moreover, Sami is flexible and adaptable. They adapted to our requests and in particular to that of carrying out carbon footprints of specific projects.
What did you think of Sami?
We recommend Sami within a working group of the press sector.
Thanks to its pedagogical support, our carbon expert Alexis, allowed us to improve our skills and to move from a regulatory carbon footprint and to an actionable carbon footprint. The very understandable restitution allowed us to engage all the services of the company so that everyone can act at their level.
Sami has a real credibility internally!
What are the main lessons from your carbon footprint?
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Carrying out this carbon footprint and an action plan with Sami has allowed us to prioritize our roadmap for our environmental approach.
We know which are the most important emission items, namely inputs and freight.
Today, we are intensifying our efforts with the services concerned, so that everyone can implement the reduction levers at their level.
More broadly, this has allowed an awareness internally and to bring together the teams around this subject.
What are the next steps before next year?
Sami has accompanied us in the implementation of a reduction trajectory and an action plan.
This allowed us to confirm the relevance of the actions we were taking and identify those that needed to be accentuated.
Thus, some actions have been undertaken or accentuated to reduce CO2 emissions:
- Continue the energy renovation of our premises through effective insulation and renewable energy sources (installation of photovoltaic panels and valorization of 14 hectares of parking).
- Reduce emissions related to upstream freight by getting closer to other companies in the region to complete a train together, in order to limit road transport and valorize the railway line unused since 2016 that goes all the way to our factories.
- Continue to enter into a circular approach by valorizing end-of-life newspapers. And this, by taking advantage of our home newspaper delivery network (the largest in France) so that the press carriers recover the used newspapers when they deliver new ones. This allows the trucks not to return empty after delivery and to revalorize the paper. This pilot project has a significant capacity for replication throughout the sector.
