The Company’s strategy incorporates the absolute need to reduce the overall environmental impacts, whether in terms of the Company’s internal operations, the services offered to clients and the work carried out for them, or the products and services purchased. [ESRS 2 SBM-1, SBM-3 AR 6, E4-1-12, E4-1-13]
Publicis Groupe recognizes that climate change represents a major challenge for companies on a global scale. In order to guarantee the sustainability of our business model, we have undertaken a process of assessing our strategic and operational resilience to climate impacts, with an approach that allows us to structure our analysis of physical risks and transition risks in order to identify the levers of action to strengthen our adaptation. [ESRS 2 SBM-3-19 (b) & (c), AR 7b & 8b]
1. Current resilience analysis
We identified the most important processes for the operation of our Groupe, considering the three scopes:
We analyzed the sensitivity of our key processes to various climatic hazards (extreme temperatures, intense rainfall, drought, etc.). For example, our data centers are particularly sensitive to heat waves.
The assessment of current capacity to deal with the identified hazards was carried out by considering different aspects:
2. Climate scenarios
In 2025, Climate risks were re-assessed on the basis of the same two scenarios as in 2022, adapted to the current situation:
