By 2050, Europe will become the first climate neutral continent. This is the goal of the European Green Deal, enshrined in the European Climate Law. To achieve this ambitious objective, not only civil society and governments will need to make an effort but also our economy needs to be transformed.

For this purpose, the European Commission has adopted several laws resulting in mandatory sustainability requirements for businesses. Particularly the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the EU-Taxonomy oblige large companies to publish comprehensive sustainability information.

This represents a major challenge for many of our clients and will therefore be a very important topic for us as well. Since the legislation is new, consulting companies have only positioned themselves recently. Nevertheless, many of them have already published different materials on those topics.

Therefore, it would be very interesting for us to analyse the market and identify best practice cases concerning different aspects, such as marketing, service depth, etc. That way, we could develop an action plan to improve our own sustainability regulation services and to find the best way to successfully support our clients and meet their needs.

EcoAct is a sustainability consulting company with more than 15 years of experience in this field. Two years ago, EcoAct was acquired by Atos. The focus of our work is on carbon-related consulting projects, such as the calculation of carbon footprints or climate risk analyses. However, our portfolio is not only limited to those specific topics but rather covers the entire journey from the initial understanding of the impact of climate change on businesses to the achievement of Net Zero. Where further emission reductions are not possible, this also includes offsetting measures. Thanks to the digital expertise of Atos, we can combine IT and sustainability, which enables us to base our projects on robust and efficient tools.