Decarbonization: LACROIX validates its low-carbon objectives with SBTi
Industry
CSR
While around sixty researchers and scientists from around the world confirmed in June 2025 that surpassing the +1.5°C threshold compared to pre-industrial levels is now inevitable, it is more crucial than ever for companies to step up their efforts to decarbonize their activities.
As a committed industrial player, LACROIX today announces the official validation of its “near-term” emissions reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global benchmark ensuring the scientific credibility of organizations’ carbon reduction pathways.
A low-carbon pathway to address climate challenges
Reducing carbon emissions is now a necessity to contain the impacts of climate change.
The Paris Agreement aims to bring together governments and economic actors to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C—and ideally to 1.5°C. These targets respond to the environmental emergency, stricter regulations, and the need to ensure long-term economic resilience. More and more companies are making ambitious commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
LACROIX’s greenhouse gas reduction pathway (low-carbon trajectory) is fully aligned with the collective momentum initiated by the Paris Agreement.
A clear and structured strategy to permanently reduce our carbon footprint
At the heart of our positive impact strategy, LACROIX embeds this low-carbon pathway into a broader approach to run sustainable operations by minimizing the environmental footprint of its sites, operations, and procurement activities.
In 2024, LACROIX assessed its total carbon footprint at 2.8 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (MtCO₂e), including scopes 1, 2, and 3—that is, all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain.
Carbon Neutrality: a clear-sighted and responsible vision
Recognizing that carbon neutrality only makes sense on a global scale, LACROIX adopts a transparent, science-based approach:
LACROIX will never be entirely carbon neutral; however, we can reduce our footprint as much as possible. This is the spirit of our commitment to the SBTi: to align our greenhouse gas emissions reduction trajectory with the Paris Agreement.»
Louis Prat
VP Impact & Sustainability
LACROIX
A robust roadmap, built step by step
To structure this low-carbon trajectory, LACROIX took part in the ACT Step by Step program in 2024, developed by ADEME. This initiative made it possible to define clear targets and an operational roadmap for each of its business activities: Environmentand Electronics.
After a year of workshops involving all departments across the Group, we defined ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. To achieve these goals, we developed an operational and budgeted roadmap through to 2033.»
Vincent Bedouin
CEO
LACROIX
Official validation by the Science Based Targets initiative
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) supports and assesses companies in defining carbon reduction pathways aligned with the latest climate science.
This strong commitment confirms LACROIX’s determination to actively contribute to limiting global warming as much as possible.
This validation is a major milestone, but what matters most is the real impact of our actions on the FIELD. Our mission is to bring this trajectory to life and demonstrate that a more resource-efficient and responsible industry is possible.»
Laure Le Saux
CSR Project Manager
LACROIX
Our 2033 targets, validated by the SBTi
Concrete actions are already being implemented to reduce our environmental impacts related to water, energy, and waste, as well as through the rollout of a responsible purchasing policy aimed at lowering the carbon footprint of our supply chain.
Faced with the incontrovertible scientific evidence, inaction is no longer an option. As France’s Minister for Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, recently reminded us: “Climate inaction is a weapon of mass destruction.”
Decarbonizing industry is a key lever in limiting global warming. LACROIX is committed to continuing its efforts alongside its entire ecosystem to help achieve this shared goal.
With the validation of its low-carbon trajectory by the SBTi, LACROIX reaffirms its commitment, at its own scale, to the collective effort to limit the effects of climate change.
This scientific recognition crowns a demanding approach: an ambitious pathway aligned with the Paris Agreement, which lies at the heart of our positive impact strategy.
Now more than ever, it is by acting collectively that we can build a more resource-efficient, resilient, and truly sustainable future.
