Hardis Group commissioned WeCount to help it complete its first carbon footprint assessment, using 2019 as the baseline year. This assessment was carried out on the basis of internal collaboration and partnership with other companies (as part of the “Climat 2021” initiative). 

For this initial assessment, we looked at scope 1 and 2 emissions (energy use, air conditioning, company vehicle fleet), as well as at scope 3 emissions, both upstream (purchasing, travel, food, supplier freight, furniture and IT equipment, etc.) and downstream (customer freight, waste, uses of our products, etc.). 

We completed our second carbon footprint assessment in 2023, using 2022 as the baseline year.  

After conducting our first carbon footprint assessment, we committed to an emissions-reduction trajectory in line with the Paris Agreement targets. The second assessment found that we had met—and in some cases exceeded—all of our targets for the three-year period. 

The results showed that we had reduced our carbon footprint by 10%—from 7,613 tons of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂e) in 2019, to 6,849 tCO₂e in 2022—even though our workforce had grown by 10%, and our revenue by 19%, over the same period. 

Our carbon footprint per employee fell from 7 tCO₂e to 5.8 tCO₂e between 2019 and 2022. 

There were several contributing factors to this reduction: 

• The Temps de Trajet Responsable (TTR) program, under which employees receive extra leave for choosing low-carbon travel methods, resulted in a 10% reduction in travel. 
• Building- and vehicle-related energy use was down by 20% (under the energy sufficiency plan). 
• Business travel volumes were down by 19% in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. 
• All of our internal IT waste is now refurbished or recycled under a partnership with AfB and BackMarket, resulting in a 40 tCO²e reduction in related emissions. 

Actions

Raising employee awareness of environmental issues, eco-friendly practices, etc.

Energy sufficiency and environmental protection:

• Developing a voluntary, flexible work-from-home policy to reduce commuting trips.
• Fine-tuning our travel policies and how we manage our company vehicle fleet, including developing a new “green mobility” policy in order to reduce travel-related carbon emissions.
• Ensuring our facilities management policy incorporates environmental concerns (waste management, reduced paper use, etc.) and complies with regulatory requirements (including the French decree on reducing energy use in the tertiary sector), and incorporating solar panels, electric charging stations, bike parking facilities, and other, similar measures at our new sites.
• Reviewing our IT policy and datacenter management practices to ensure that environmental concerns are given maximum consideration. Recycling waste equipment, and rolling out IT hardware sorting and recycling solutions.
• Incorporating environmental impacts into our purchasing strategy.

Digital responsibility:

• Providing digital responsibility training to our employees (consultants, architects, developers, etc.).
• Certifying in-house ambassadors.
• Providing digital responsibility support and consulting services to our customers (covering eco-design, accessibility, and more).

Our Partners

Our Commitment

We will conduct our next carbon footprint assessment, which will include our subsidiaries, in 2025. 
For this assessment, we have once again set ambitious targets: total emissions of 6,540 tCO²e, and emissions per employee of 5.4 tCO²e.