Publication of the 2024 Sustainability Report: EPSA anchors sustainability at the heart of its growth strategy

The European group EPSA, an expert in the operational, financial and environmental performance of organisations, has published its 2024 sustainability report. The group presents concrete results and a long-term roadmap based on dual materiality, financial and impact. With a 52% reduction in carbon emissions and the rollout of ESG management tools across the group, EPSA has formalised an ambitious and operational long-term vision designed to create value for its clients, employees and all its stakeholders.

Entirely designed in-house, drawing on the expertise of the Sustainability Business Line, this report demonstrates the group’s ability to structure an integrated strategic vision of sustainability, inspired by the requirements of the CSRD directive. Three commitments structure its sustainability roadmap: reducing the group’s carbon intensity by 52% (scopes 1, 2 and 3), achieving 30% women in management positions, and ensuring a 100% CSR approach among its strategic suppliers.

The 2024 sustainability report also highlights the group’s concrete progress: 37% of energy consumed is carbon-free, more than €12 million in revenue generated by impact missions, and more than 1,000 hours of volunteer work carried out by EPSA employees.

“In an economic context marked by rapid change and growing societal expectations, we firmly believe that non-financial performance can no longer be separated from economic performance. The 2024 Sustainability Report embodies this strategic commitment: to embed CSR in the long term, at all levels of the organisation, and to make it a lever for creating sustainable value for EPSA, its customers and its stakeholders,” explains Godefroy de Colombe, CEO of the EPSA Group.

The report highlights a series of concrete actions taken by EPSA across all of its operational, social and environmental dimensions:

• Climate and energy: completion of an annual carbon footprint assessment, 37% of energy consumption from decarbonised sources, and a target to reduce carbon emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 52% by 2030. A dedicated tool has been made available to EPSA MarketPlace suppliers to assess their environmental impact.
• Social commitment: an average of 13 hours of training per employee, implementation of a Diversity & Inclusion programme (EPSA Equality), and roll-out of an EPSA digital campus to promote skills development. The group aims to have 30% of women in management positions by 2030.
• Responsible governance: establishment of an ESG committee bringing together strategic and business functions, integration of CSR issues into the group’s steering bodies, and launch of a digital platform (Zei) to ensure data reliability and monitor progress in real time.
• Regional and societal impact: €200,000 in annual donations via the EPSA Foundation endowment fund, 14 jobs created in the regions as part of the inclusive economy, and more than 11,000 beneficiaries supported. EPSA is also involved in an Employment-Focused Enterprise as part of the Zero Unemployment Territories initiative.

“This report marks a milestone in our commitment to corporate responsibility. It illustrates the maturity achieved by EPSA in terms of CSR governance and the group’s ability to transform its commitments into concrete, measurable and cross-functional actions. Our long-term vision is based on a strategy centred on dual materiality, with specific targets for 2030: a 52% reduction in carbon emissions, a transition to 100% carbon-free energy, gender parity in management bodies, and the roll-out of CSR initiatives to all our strategic suppliers,” comments Cédric Laroyenne, EPSA’s Director of Engagement.

“The publication of this CSR report fully illustrates EPSA Sustainability’s ambition: to put our expertise at the service of a profound and coherent transformation of organisations. Our ekodev and Sidièse teams are particularly proud to have contributed to this collective effort, which highlights the complementary nature of the expertise within the group. This document embodies our ability to translate commitments into concrete, measurable actions that benefit all the economic players we support,” adds Nicolas Perdrix, Managing Director of Sidièse and EPSA Sustainability.