A word from our Managing Director, Julien Marigot :
“Can we continue to develop our businesses without integrating, as coherently as possible, a sustainable development or more generally “ecological” strategy? Personally, I don’t think so, or should I say I don’t think so any more (and thanks to my comrades at the CJD (Centre des Jeunes Dirigeant-e-s d’entreprise) for this realization).
There are many reasons to make this shift, but one of them is the meaning you give to your actions, and how they align with your own values. How can you combine making an effort every day at home and not integrating this approach into your business? With the impact this can have? For our teams, our customers, our suppliers?
Without judging or lecturing, we at SEFMAT have chosen to work via different channels. Each action makes the next coherent, starting internally, with small steps, without falling into systematic communication, without going for greenwashing, which is rather “tempting”. Our teams expect realistic actions that are also in line with their own values.
Secondly, we rethink our development model, and that’s when everything makes sense. Don’t shy away from this responsibility, and take the plunge by including the variable “environmental impact” in your list as the starting point for every product or service development. A kind of green veto, to put it nicely…
If, in addition to this, we could use today’s gains, without hiding the fact that these gains sometimes depend on “polluting” solutions to accompany responsible projects.
In this respect, after careful consideration, we have decided to invest in “Team for the Planet”*. Not to hide behind this, but to remain consistent with our global approach.
* a not-for-profit company that creates and finances companies fighting climate change on a global scale
