Companies

Make your positive contribution to global decarbonisation one of your main assets.

Turn your removed or avoided emissions into a valuable asset. Never be judged only on your carbon footprint anymore!

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Be Energy
IDM France
RADIANCE Energy
Decathlon
Vestiaire collective
Acorus
Geev
Léon Grosse
Accenta
Cool Roof
Okamac
Changeons Notre Vision de l'Energie (CVE)
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Baptiste Perrissin Fabert, Deputy CEO at ADEME
“Climate Dividends is an innovative mechanism to robustly trace companies' role in global decarbonisation when they remove or avoid emissions"

If you enable your customers to reduce their own CO2e emissions, you’re actively contributing to global decarbonisation as you remove or avoid emissions of CO2e.

 

Why should you only be assessed on your negative carbon footprint?

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It’s essential to measure this positive impact in a standardised, transparent and robust way! 

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NB - the focus is only on CO2e emissions avoided (not on other critical ESG topics like social, biodiversity...etc).

How Climate Dividends work?

A simple 5-step process with continuous support from the Climate Dividends team.

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1. Assess your Eligibility

  • At company level: you must have disclosed your carbon footprint (for SMEs) and a credible transition plan validated by science (for larger companies)
  • At Solution level, you must prove: 
    • 1.5°C trajectory alignment - eligibility to the EU taxonomy or mention in the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (Working Group III)
    • Do No Significant Harm - no significant negative impact on other environmental objectives (e.g biodiversity preservation). 
    • No direct link to fossil fuels exploration, extraction, mining and/or production, distribution or sales
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2. Assess your removed or avoided emissions

In compliance with the Climate Dividends Protocol you’ll have to:

  • Define the relevant methodology
  • Collect the data
  • Compute removed or avoided emissions

You will have to formalize your methodological choices and underlying assumptions in a standard document called the “SDD” (Solution Detailed Declaration). It will constitute your Climate Dividends “claim”.

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3. Get audited by an independent third-party

An independent third-party comes in to:

  • Validate the compliance of the methodology with the Climate Dividends Protocol 
  • Verify the data and your removed or avoided emissions calculations

The 3rd-party is called a “VV” (Validator & Verificator) and is accredited by the Climate Dividends Association. 

If everything’s in order, the VV will deliver a positive assurance statement. The Validation is given for 5 years and the Verification takes place every year.

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4. Issue your Climate Dividends

After you receive the auditor’s positive statement:

  • We’ll log your claim into the Association’s public registry
  • The removed or avoided emissions are officially “converted” in Climate Dividends (1 tCO2e avoided/removed = 1 Climate Dividend)

Now, your company has officially issued its Climate Dividends for this year! 🎉

With the help of our dedicated resources and communication kits, you can communicate Climate Dividends:

  • In your official reporting (DPEF, CSRD, impact report…)
  • To the public, your employees and your stakeholders as robust proof of your contribution to global decarbonisation

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5. Distribute your Climate Dividends

Finally, we edit “Distribution certificates”, splitting the total amount of Climate Dividends, to distribute it between your shareholders, up to their % of capital ownership. Learn more on the allocation rule in our Protocol. 

See more on how investors can use and value Climate Dividends in the dedicated page

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Why use Climate Dividends?

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Standardised measure

Don’t be "reduced" to your sole carbon footprint anymore. Prove your climate contribution through a standardized Protocol and a transparent and audited process.

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Methodological support

Our experienced team supports you through the removed or avoided emissions assessment and we provide dedicated resources and tools - sectoral methodologies, use cases, Excel templates…

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Serene communication

Communicate and report your positive contribution to global decarbonisation to external and internal stakeholders without the risk of being accused of greenwashing. Strengthen your brand image with a strong communication asset.

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Attract investors

Use Climate Dividends as solid proof of your climate performance to attract impact investors more easily (easier environmental due diligence) and to lower your cost of capital (green bonds, lower banking fees).

A fast-paced market adoption

In less than 2 years of pilot phase (see timeline), the initiative gained a lot of momentum, at an international scale.

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+30

user companies

+100

user investors

+2.4m

Climate Dividends issued

+6

auditors onboarded

They issued Climate Dividends

Companies from in key industries from all over the world have already joined the initiative.

Pilot Phase

"The Climate Dividends initiative is the perfect way for Naïo to show the benefit of our robots for climate and to share this value with our different stakeholders."

Pilot Phase

"Climate Dividends are an excellent way to demonstrate our positive impact and share our environmental performance with our shareholders. We believe that it will also be a strong lever to attract future investors concerned by extra-financial issues."

Pilot Phase

"Climate Dividends make a lot of sense for Fifteen and it was a no-brainer for us to join the initiative to have our avoided emissions audited by an independent third-party. It's an asset for our investors but also for our clients."

Pilot Phase

"This indicator enables us to highlight our products and services that actively contribute to the decarbonisation of society as a whole, without diverting from our responsibility to reduce our overall carbon footprint."

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Get in touch to start issuing and distributing Climate Dividends now to measure and value your positive impact!

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