What was your CSR strategy before contacting Sami?

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We decided quite quickly to implement a CSR approach led by volunteer employees.

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The strong conviction of our employees is the main driver of our CSR approach. To concretize this will, we have carried out the necessary steps to obtain the B Corp label.

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We have also set up the regular financing of reforestation projects in partnership with Reforest’action.

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Our activity as a company contributes to global warming. The carbon footprint allows us to measure the company's climate impact.

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We are convinced that it is very important to do our carbon footprint to understand and minimize our impact.

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Had you already done a carbon footprint?

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We did a first trial with a free tool on the GoodPlanet website. This allowed us to have a first order of magnitude of our impact to guide us in our first financing of reforestation projects.

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We felt the need for a more precise and complete solution, especially on the digital and server part.

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Why did you choose Sami?

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It seemed a bit "heavy" to go through a classic consulting firm. We therefore rather looked for a service provider with a modern and simple offer while being of quality on the calculations.

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Sami offered us a simple and intuitive carbon footprint with a complete brick for measuring our digital impact. The use of a questionnaire for employees was a real asset in our eyes for a more engaging carbon footprint for the teams.

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Sami also offered a detailed action plan to reduce our emissions and our action for the climate as a whole. It seemed reassuring!

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What did you think of Sami?

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Sami offers a simple and educational tool. The restitution meeting of our carbon footprint allowed us to better understand the distribution of our emissions, in particular on the digital aspect. Matthias, our dedicated climate expert, was very responsive throughout the steps of the support!

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Automating part of the calculation thanks to the financial data of the accounting saved us a lot of time and allows us to identify the main suppliers to mobilize to reduce our scope 3.

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What are the main lessons from your carbon footprint?

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A striking piece of data was discovering that our 5% of air travel generates 95% of our carbon emissions related to transportation. Now, we pay attention to the relevance of our choices regarding the mode of transport of our employees.

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We also had a precise measurement of the impact of our digital activities, including things like our posts on social networks and I was surprised by the high carbon content of the video. This confirmed my intuition that the digital part is the majority of our carbon footprint.

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What are the next steps, post carbon footprint?

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We were already aware of the climate issue before the Sami initiative. We had notably opted for a green electricity supplier. Sami allowed us to quantify the CO2 savings generated, in addition to proposing other reduction levers.

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The Sami service offers support even after the carbon assessment presentation, to help us take action:

• We are going to switch part of our IT fleet to refurbished equipment via the partner that Sami proposed to us
• We want to conduct Green IT training for the IT team and implement the solution recommended by Sami to track the cloud impact of the code pushed into production
• We will push some suppliers to share their carbon footprint or to conduct their carbon assessment thanks to the template emails proposed by Sami
• We continue to fund Reforest'action planting projects to contribute to global carbon neutrality

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Above all, we are recruiting a full-time person to take charge of the impact issue at Welcome to the Jungle. Our climate strategy will be at the heart of the mission!

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