Why Companies Have a Role to Play in the Fight Against Climate Change?
Environment

Laura Beaulier

CEODividendes Climat

Why Companies Have a Role to Play in the Fight Against Climate Change?

9:36·20 February 2024

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Rethinking production, investment, and consumption is essential for most companies. Laura Beaulier is the CEO of Dividendes Climat, an association dedicated to accelerating funding for the ecological transition.

It is possible to highlight the positive environmental impact of your company. This is precisely what Dividendes Climat offers. This association, co-founded by ADEME, Mirova, and Team for the planet in 2022, aims to encourage companies to reduce their carbon emissions and to value this through a dividend system based on environmental performance, the Climate Dividends.

Laura Beaulier explains this in the interview: “The primary goal is to encourage capital investment in activities that contribute to carbon neutrality”, by measuring the “climate dividend”, which is  “the mirror of a financial dividend for the climate.” These dividends act as a measurement tool, through incentivizing non-financial information to encourage environmentally friendly behaviors by measuring sequestered or avoided emissions, rewarding efforts to reduce emissions.

Each company thus has the opportunity to measure its positive environmental impact and issue climate dividends. The CEO is convinced that companies have a real role in the fight against climate change.

In summary, Dividendes Climat aims to promote an economic and incentivizing solution to limit climate change by transforming carbon taxation into an opportunity for climate dividends for organizations.

If you want to deepen your knowledge on this topic: https://www.airzen.fr/environnement-la-balance-carbone-un-jeu-a-impact-positif/

Juliette Boulegon
impact.info journalist
Published on 20 February 2024