Universal Registration Document 2024

Glossary

    1. energy audits: pursuant to European directive 2012/27/EU, some agencies in Europe carried out energy audits, enabling progress plans to be drafted for the coming years (for example, improvements to systems or the strengthening of individual and collective eco-friendly practices),
    2. energy efficiency: during the winter of 2023-2024, in a context of global tension on energy, the watchword of reducing energy consumption continued, thanks to new best practices implemented and maintained since then.
Scope 3

With the entry into force of French Decree No. 2022-982 revising several articles of the French Environmental Code on the calculation scope of Scope 3, and with the coming into force of the European CSRD, which also requires companies to take into account a wider scope, Publicis Groupe worked on the integration of new categories (e.g. social benefits and other services).

Upstream
  1. Products and services purchased, which represent the largest part of Scope 3, for an estimated total of 111,474 TeqCO2. The following categories are taken into account in the calculation (included in the targets validated by SBTi):
    1. information & Technology (IT): data centers & cloud services software licenses, development and consulting,
    2. telecommunications and networks,
    3. research and development, studies,
    4. recruitment costs and external training costs,
    5. insurance, banking and legal fees.

Work undertaken on the measurement of supplier emissions in Scope 3 [E1-6-44 (c), E1-6-51]

In 2024, for the second consecutive year, the Groupe compared the publicly reported emissions in three categories with the actual greenhouse gas emissions for 2023, declared by suppliers themselves in their management report and verified by external auditors with emissions based on the sole monetary factor. This comparative analysis shows a difference of 48.4% on average. However, the gap between the companies – even with an identical scope (Scopes 1+2+3) – does not yet allow the use of these data.

This analysis shows that supplier reduction efforts can directly benefit Publicis Groupe. However, the significant differences in maturity between suppliers within the same category, on the measurement of their emissions and the comparability of the data used and published (for example, the different scopes taken into consideration and the exclusions), do not yet allow this data to be included in the calculation of Publicis Groupe’s emissions. In 2024, the Company stuck to using generic factors based on an updated monetary factor. These calculations are carried out with the assistance of Bureau Veritas and verified by Grant Thornton, the external auditors.

Purchase category examined information & Technology (IT): data centers & cloud services, software licenses, development and consulting With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint) With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023) Gaps observed between the two approaches
Supplier 1

Supplier 1

With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint)

11,976

Supplier 1

With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023)

5,520

Supplier 1

Gaps observed between the two approaches

(53.9%)
Supplier 2

Supplier 2

With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint)

1,906

Supplier 2

With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023)

159

Supplier 2

Gaps observed between the two approaches

(91.6%)
Supplier 3

Supplier 3

With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint)

1,347

Supplier 3

With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023)

1,234

Supplier 3

Gaps observed between the two approaches

(8.4%)
Supplier 4

Supplier 4

With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint)

4,238

Supplier 4

With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023)

737

Supplier 4

Gaps observed between the two approaches

(82.6%)
Supplier 5

Supplier 5

With generic emissions factors (integrated into the 2024 Carbon Footprint)

755

Supplier 5

With the supplier’s public emissions factors (source 2023)

713

Supplier 5

Gaps observed between the two approaches

(5.6%)

Current limits to the emissions inventory linked to the total volume of purchases: historically, the volume considered relates to the Groupe’s strategic purchases benefiting all subsidiaries. Local purchases are taken into account above 100,000 euros. Below this amount, and due to discrepancies in the nomenclatures and with the ongoing migration to ARIBA (the supplier management platform), these purchases are not yet included. Indirect purchases, made on behalf of clients and in their name (such as purchases of media space, for example), are included directly in clients’ Scope 3. [E1-4-34 (b)] 

  1. Capital goods, for an estimated total of 5,515 TeqCO2 and including:
    1. IT: for an estimated total of 5,353 TeqCO2. IT equipment (servers, workstations and laptops, screens, cellular phones, tablets, printers, etc.) are taken into account in the form of an exhaustive inventory of all office equipment and connectivity used by employees for their daily activities, in the workplace or at home. The Groupe seeks to use Green IT solutions wherever possible in order to be able to work on more energy-saving computers and use more virtuous software packages and programs;
    2. paper: 140 metric tons were consumed, of which 70% were certified or standard-compliant paper (FSC, PEFC or other certifications), as were consumables (ink cartridges, office supplies, etc.), i.e. an impact of 162 TeqCO2. For several years now, the “zero paper” policy has been encouraged everywhere. The roll-out of applications such as “Follow Me” makes it possible to select printers based on the type of document to be printed and to use a pass to activate printing.