They are 84 business leaders to engage in the fight against climate change.

In a column published in the

Journal du Dimanche

, they explain their objective: “Move from emergency sobriety to organized sobriety.

The signatories mostly belong to the social and solidarity economy or associations, but some run large structures, such as Jean-Bernard Lévy from EDF, Hélène Bernicot from Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, and Pascal Demurger from the insurer MAIF. .

"Sustainable sobriety will necessarily pass through fair value sharing and long-term integration within the company, and therefore through changes in governance", states the text.

Go even further

Last Sunday, the bosses of the three French energy companies TotalEnergies, EDF and Engie had called on the French to immediately reduce their consumption of fuel, oil, electricity and gas in the face of the risk of shortage threatening "social cohesion" next winter. .

This call was aimed at individuals and businesses alike, but remained limited to energy consumption.

The call of the 84 leaders goes further, by wanting to integrate at the heart of the strategy of the companies the "approaches of circular economy, economy of use, relocation, regeneration of biodiversity, or alignment of corporate carbon reductions with the Paris Agreement” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“Developing our global competitiveness model”

According to the authors of the forum, “organized economic sobriety is a way of not placing the weight of the transition on the most disadvantaged”.

They hope to "change our global model of competitiveness", in order to "finally get companies out of a perpetual contradictory injunction" between financial objectives on the one hand, climatic and social on the other.

They add that they will propose this “collective choice” on August 30 during “Summer Universities for the economy of tomorrow” in Paris.

This forum will be held separately, but concomitantly, from the summer university of the first French employers' organization, the Medef, renamed Rencontre des entrepreneurs de France (REF).

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