Threat administration companies supplier Apave Group introduced the acquisition of French carbon accounting agency Aktio, in a transfer aimed toward serving to Apave to strengthen its experience in sustainability and decarbonization.
Based in 2020, Paris-based Aktio offers local weather consulting companies and greenhouse gasoline accounting and administration software program options aimed toward supporting corporations of their low-carbon transition. The corporate’s platform helps corporations in measuring their carbon footprint, setting local weather targets and defining a low-carbon trajectory, implementing decarbonization plans, complying with laws resembling CSRD, and speaking and coaching on the low-carbon transition method.
Since launching, Aktio has grown to roughly 40 consultants, local weather consultants and net builders, and has supported 500 organizations in addressing their decarbonization challenges.
Aktio co-founders Laurent Barbezieux, Alex Huyn and Thibault Faninger stated:
“At a time when the dangers and penalties of local weather change are intensifying, it’s extra important than ever to democratize the low-carbon transition as shortly as doable. Becoming a member of the Apave Group, a number one participant in environmental consulting and auditing, is an distinctive acceleration alternative for Aktio, to equip, practice and assist the carbon accountants of tomorrow.”
In response to Apave, the acquisition will assist strengthen its ‘Inexperienced & Social’ vary of companies, which aimsto assist the success of their purchasers’ transition plans throughout areas together with vitality transition, local weather transition, and social and societal transition. Apave’s benchmark entity by way of sustainability would be the newly shaped Aktio-Apave, shaped by combining Aktio’s consultants and consultants and the consultants and consultants from Apave’s ‘Local weather and Sustainability’ division.
Philippe Maillard, CEO of the Apave Group, stated:
“In the present day, we’re taking a brand new step with the acquisition of Aktio, absolutely in step with our company goal: ‘To behave as a trusted associate to make the world safer, extra sustainable and a supply of shared progress.’ We’re thus accelerating our want to have the ability to assist our purchasers much more and higher of their sustainable efficiency goals, whether or not these relate to technical, human, environmental, digital or local weather points.”
