The responses from the employee survey allow us to quantify the reduction in emissions linked to certain company policies, in particular, the emissions of your employees (linked to their work commute and their lunches).
We have built 5 different scenarios to evaluate these reductions, taking into account the effort that each of your employees is willing to give (commuting by electric bike, eat vegetarian one day, etc.). Among these scenarios, 4 concern home-work journeys, and the last concerns food.
Commute to work
The home-office commute can represent a significant part of your company's emissions. In an attempt to reduce these emissions, we have illustrated the following 4 scenarios:
Carpooling proposal: in this scenario, relevant employees are proposed carpooling to replace part of their solo journeys by car. It is also assumed that the company helps to set up this system. Ultimately the choice is for the company to decide the solution it prefers. (whether via an organization, or the financing of a solution such as Star). The emissions of the employees concerned are then reduced by 30%. Indeed, we consider that it is not always possible for employees to carpool, and that there are sometimes rebound effects with carpooling, such as travelling over longer distances.
Electric bike proposal: in this scenario, the employees concerned are offered the opportunity to participate in the purchase of an electric bike, to replace journeys by car, motorcycle, scooter or electric scooter. Employees then undertake to make all their journeys by electric bike.
Remote working proposal: in this scenario, all employees who have expressed the desire to do more remote work should do 1 additional day of remote work per week, reducing the emissions associated with their home-office commute by the same amount. We do not consider possible rebound effects, such as moving or heating. These rebound effects tend to increase the reduction in CO2e emissions, according to this ADEME study.
All scenarios combined: in this scenario, all the measures proposed in the previous scenarios are combined, which multiplies the reduction of associated emissions tenfold.
Food
Lunchtime also accounts for a significant share of a company's CO2e emissions. Changing up company menu proposals can be an effective way to reduce emissions. What's more, you don't even need to stop eating meat (just a little less of it): a study by ADEME shows that going from an average diet to a "flexitarian" diet (a diet where you consciously reduce your meat consumption, replacing it in part with legumes, vegetables, and fruit) reduces the emissions associated with your meals by more than 35%!
In the scenario we studied, we project that employees eat one more vegetarian meal, but that they keep the same distribution between meals comprising red meat, white meat, and fish for the other meals.
For example: For an employee who eats vegetarian meals 20% of the time, white meat 40% of the time, fish 20% of the time, and red meat 20% of the time; the scenario will suggest that they go for 40 % vegetarian meal, 30% white meat, 15% red meat, and 15% fish.
This scenario saves up to 5kgCO2e per meal and per person.
Recommended Actions
You have a suggestion of reduction actions on the "Recommended actions" tab of the employee page.
