SUMMARY
Born in 2021 at the initiative of Virginie RAISSON-VICTOR and Jérôme COHEN, Le Grand Défi des entreprises pour la planète brought together over two years more than 100 partners, 65,000 contributions and a college of 100 delegates representative of the French economy (SMEs, ETIs, large corporations). Objective: to formulate 100 proposals to accelerate the ecological transition of the economy and redefine a model of prosperity that is "economic, humanistic and regenerative".
The project is based on a participatory democracy method applied to the economic world (companies selected by lot, collaborative work, national consultation, collective deliberation and consultative vote by local authorities, NGOs and trade unions). This approach, inspired by citizen conventions, was designed to guarantee the diversity of viewpoints and the democratic legitimacy of proposals.
The approach identified the main levers of transition: governance, commitment, financing, production tools, production, logistics, packaging, distribution, communication, accounting, remuneration.
- Key proposals include
- include the environmental and social raison d'être in governance ;
- train all employees in ecological issues;
- create an internal and externalstakeholder committee;
- measure the ecological footprint of products and services;
- promote the circular economy and the sustainability of goods ;
- make biodiversity a "major national cause".
The report underlines the need for cultural and systemic change, based on cooperation between businesses, territories, civil society and public authorities. Le Grand Défi shows that the ecological transition cannot be decreed from on high: it must be co-constructed, anchored in the reality of companies and supported by tools for measurement, training and shared governance. The authors call for a phase of dissemination and appropriation of the 100 proposals by economic and public decision-makers.
Keywords: biodiversity, multi-stakeholder cooperation, participatory democracy, sustainability, regenerative economy, training, collective intelligence, governance, corporate responsibility, CSR, ecological transition, France.
