To meet societal challenges, companies need to innovate on multiple dimensions. This revolution requires an overhaul of their decision-making, production, and consumption methods.

This trend towards extended producer responsibility, both upstream and downstream, illustrates a growing awareness among all players: from institutions to suppliers, including head contracting entities.

With 92% of principals demanding ESG performance from their suppliers by 2024, the time has come for companies to adopt a global vision based on the life-cycle approach in their roadmap to reducing their environmental footprint.

In the current context, marked by societal, environmental, and social justice challenges, companies are under pressure to implement profound changes at various levels.

However, the transition to a more sustainable, circular economy is still in its infancy. Our global economy is only 9% circular, and this unbridled consumption is contributing to the overstepping of several planetary limits, threatening the resilience and stability of our system.

Faced with these alarming figures, companies are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of their decisions, and recognize the importance of addressing environmental issues at every link in their value chain.

We are currently faced with exceeding several of the nine planetary limits defined by scientists, a clear indicator that the road to a sustainable economy is still a long one.

In this context, it has become imperative for companies to understand the impact of their decisions on these planetary limits, and to act accordingly. Companies have the opportunity and responsibility to implement sustainable strategies, by analyzing the life cycle of their products, adopting eco-design principles, and setting up an effective environmental management system.

They play an essential role in reversing the trend and helping to restore the natural systems on which our society depends.