CSR & Carbon Glossary

ADEME (French Agency for Ecological Transition) is a French public agency that supports businesses and local authorities in their ecological transitio...

The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted in 2015 at COP21, committing 196 countries to limit global warming to below 2°C above pre-indus...

A carbon footprint assessment is a method for accounting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by an organization's activities. Developed by ADEME,...

BEGES (Bilan d'Émissions de Gaz à Effet de Serre) is a mandatory regulatory assessment in France for certain organizations. Version 5, effective since...

Base Carbone is ADEME's public database containing reference emission factors for France. It includes thousands of factors covering energy, transport,...

The Dekko CSR Badge is automatically awarded to companies based on their per-employee carbon performance. Based on the BEGES V5 method, it comes in fo...

CO2 equivalent (CO2e) is a unit of measurement that compares the warming potential of different greenhouse gases. CO2 serves as the reference (GWP = 1...

The CSRD is a European directive expanding corporate sustainability reporting obligations. Phased in from 2024, it first applies to large companies th...

Carbon offsetting involves funding projects that reduce or sequester CO2 emissions (reforestation, renewable energy) to compensate for one's own emiss...

The DPEF is a mandatory report in France for large companies and certain mid-sized enterprises, detailing their social, environmental, and societal im...

The carbon footprint measures total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly or indirectly by a person, organization, or product. It is expressed in t...

An emission factor is a coefficient that converts activity data (liters of fuel, kWh of electricity, km traveled) into CO2 equivalent. For example, th...

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are atmospheric gases that absorb and re-emit infrared radiation, contributing to global warming. The main GHGs are carbon dio...

Greenwashing is a misleading marketing practice of projecting an eco-friendly image without proportionate concrete actions. In France, the 2021 Climat...

The IPCC is an intergovernmental body created in 1988, tasked with assessing scientific knowledge on climate change. Its reports are authoritative and...

ISO 14064 is a three-part international standard for quantifying, monitoring, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas emissions. Part 1 covers organiz...

Carbon neutrality is the balance between CO2 emissions and their absorption by carbon sinks (forests, oceans, capture technologies). For a business, a...

OCR is a technology that automatically extracts text and data from images or scanned documents. Dekko uses OCR via Google Document AI to analyze energ...

An SME employs between 10 and 249 people with annual revenue under 50 million euros. SMEs are increasingly asked by clients to provide carbon footprin...

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is the contribution of businesses to sustainable development. It encompasses environmental, social, and governan...

Scope 1 covers direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources owned or controlled by the organization. This includes fuel combustion in company vehicles...

Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from the production of purchased energy consumed by the organization. This mainly includes electricity, but also pur...

Scope 3 covers all other indirect emissions in the organization's value chain: purchased goods and services, upstream/downstream transport, employee c...

SBTi is an initiative that helps companies set emission reduction targets aligned with climate science and the Paris Agreement. SBTi-validated targets...

The EU Taxonomy is a classification system for economic activities based on their contribution to EU environmental objectives. It defines technical cr...

A micro-enterprise has fewer than 10 employees and annual revenue under 2 million euros. In France, they represent 96% of businesses. While not requir...