The Climate Fresk: An Innovative Initiative to Act and Adapt to Climate Change
What is a Climate Fresco?
The Climate Fresco is an interactive educational method designed to raise awareness among individuals and businesses about the stakes of climate change. It allows for visualizing the different interactions between the causes and consequences of climate change. By using this approach, which complements the carbon footprint assessment we conducted, we were able to understand how it is possible to evaluate our carbon footprint and we imagined concrete actions to reduce our impact on the environment. We created three frescos in small groups of 7 with the help of Jeanne Guillaume, who explained to us the risks and consequences of human actions on the environment. The activity that encompasses the fresco is a good tool for raising awareness about climate change, and everyone leaves with a comprehensive view of climate change.
Evaluation of Actions: Ease of Implementation and Added Value:
Our company used a two-axis matrix to evaluate the proposed actions. The first axis was the ease of implementation, which measures the feasibility and resources needed to carry out each action. The second axis was the added value, which assesses the potential effect of each action on reducing our GHG emissions.
Internal Actions:
Among the reflections we have raised, some focus on recycling, adopting more energy-efficient technologies, promoting carpooling and electric vehicles, and telecommuting to reduce certain trips.
External actions:
In addition to internal actions, we have also identified opportunities to have a positive impact outside of our company. This includes raising customer awareness of climate issues by encouraging them to direct their projects towards resilience, promoting low carbon footprint materials or services.
To ensure the effectiveness of our actions, we will repeat this reflection period next year.
We have set objectives for each action that will allow us, and you too, to track our efforts in ecological transformation/transition.
Finally, the Climate Fresk has been a valuable experience for our company, allowing each of us to become aware of our impact on the company's carbon footprint and to develop concrete actions to reduce that impact. We are determined to implement these major daily actions to play our part in the transition to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly world. We strongly encourage you to join this initiative of actions against climate change.
