Clariane supports its low-carbon transition: a new European charter to mobilise all the Group’s stakeholders
On 20 November 2025, the management team and the European Company Works Council (ECWC), a transnational employee representative body, adopted an ambitious charter featuring recommendations to support the carbon emissions reduction plan set out by the Group. The document identifies principles for action based on providing information and training, transforming practices and protecting employees, residents and patients against climate change.
Since 2023, Clariane – as a purpose-driven company – has been committed to a carbon footprint reduction pathway, joining the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi), which has approved the Group’s reduction targets and confirmed their alignment with the Paris Agreement. The charter was developed as part of a constructive dialogue between the ECWC and the management team and aims to build on existing momentum by involving all levels of the company and its social partners in decarbonisation efforts.
Pulling together around three major focuses
The charter reaffirms the essential role everyone plays in the low-carbon transition, through three central areas of action accompanied by operational recommendations.
1. Inform, raise awareness and train employees
- Managers: share details of the low-carbon strategy, promote awareness-raising measures (such as European Sustainable Development Week, webinars and e-learning modules) and strengthen training for key professions.
- Teams: take training, play an active role in events and share and promote local initiatives.
- Staff representatives: include environmental issues in industrial relations, especially during key events such as Sustainable Development Week.
2. Implement practices to reduce our carbon footprint
- Managers: promote responsible purchasing, implement action plans (such as renewable energy and energy audits), adapt transport policies and adjust initiatives to the realities of each site.
- Teams: adopt the same environmentally friendly everyday actions at work that they practise at home (reducing waste, saving energy, sorting waste for recycling, etc.).
- Staff representatives: monitor carbon indicators, support energy efficiency initiatives and promote service providers and solutions with a lower carbon impact when organising discussions.
3. Protect employees and residents from climate impacts
- Managers: map and monitor climate exposure risks, incorporate climate adaptation into property projects and adjust working conditions to reflect the situation.
- Teams: be vigilant during extreme weather events, follow risk management instructions and escalate alerts.
- Staff representatives: analyse vulnerabilities and propose adaptation measures (schedules, equipment and arrangements).
This charter reflects the shared desire of the management team and the members of the European Company Works Council to take practical action together to slow and adapt to climate change, rallying employees around sustainable and responsible measures. We’re convinced that everyone’s commitment, across all levels of the company and every role and function, is the key to accelerating the low-carbon transition and maintaining a high quality of life for our employees and residents.
A shared ambition for a sustainable future
This charter strengthens Clariane’s collective commitment to reducing its carbon impact and to adapting its facilities. It is a key step to sustainably reduce our carbon footprint and protect employees and residents from climate challenges.