Aligning companies’ low-carbon strategies with the Paris Agreement is essential if we are to collectively reach our climate change mitigation targets well below 2°C compared with pre-industrial levels, and preferably without exceeding +1.5°C. This is why ADEME (with the help of Ekodev and CITEPA) has launched an initial campaign to assess the climate strategies of organizations in three key sectors: real estate, industry and transport.

Since 2024, ADEME has conducted two climate strategy assessment campaigns to evaluate the credibility of transition plans developed by French and European companies.

These assessments are based on the ACT (Accelerate Climate Transition) methodology developed by ADEME. This approach allows for an in-depth analysis of the coherence and robustness of transition pathways, considering companies’ past, present, and future strategies. The analysis relies on publicly available data (annual reports and other reference documents), which may, however, present certain limitations or areas of uncertainty compared to the internal information held by the companies.

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  1. Prior to the entry into force of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in 2025, which provides a common framework enabling stakeholders to access standardized information, this involves assessing the adequacy of available information to conduct a relevant analysis of companies’ transition plans;
  2. Producing an individual assessment of the strengths and areas for improvement in companies’ climate strategies, as perceived through their publications;
  3. Ensuring the reliability and relevance of ACT methodologies as a tool for evaluating companies’ transition plans.
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They are intended to be supplemented with new evaluation campaigns, particularly following the implementation of the CSRD. For each company, four scores are presented:

  • The performance score measures the degree to which a company is aligned with a low-carbon economy, using all the indicators included in the relevant ACT methodology.
  • The narrative score provides a holistic view of the company, seeking to assess its overall readiness for the transition to a low-carbon economy and to identify any gaps or inconsistencies that were not perceived by the performance score.
  • The trend score aims to predict changes in the company’s alignment with the transition to a low-carbon economy.
  • The transparency score measures the percentage of data available in the company’s publications compared to the indicators required by the ACT methodology used to assess the company.
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COMPANIES EVALUATED PER YEAR
DISTRIBUTION BY SECTOR

No Data Found

MINIMUM PERFORMANCE
= 20
/100
AVERAGE PERFORMANCE
= 44,27
/100
MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE
= 69
/100

By clicking on a company, you can view details of the evaluation, as well as its main strengths and areas for improvement.