Taking Action on Climate Challenges
Certain that we are facing a climate emergency and fully aware of the importance of the role that we play, our Group has set itself the goal of contributing to a transition to a carbon-neutral world by considering the control of its greenhouse gas emissions as a major challenge. Since 2015, we have been firmly committed to aligning ourselves with the Paris Agreement1. We are drastically reducing emissions related to our industrial activities by aligning ourselves with science-based GHG emission reduction targets that are compatible with a 1.5°C or well-below 2°C trajectory, according to assessments.
Overview of a utility’s strategic roadmap to 2030, combining quantified energy targets with an integrated model structured around four complementary business activities.
ENGIE, a world leader in energy transition
ENGIE is a global energy player, focused on renewable energies and decentralized low-carbon energy infrastructures, supporting the decarbonization of its customers. Thanks to our industrial approach and guided by our raison d’être, we are uniquely positioned to build tomorrow’s low-carbon energy system and meet the challenges of climate change.
ENGIE’s business model is based on 4 core businesses to build tomorrow’s low-carbon energy system and achieve the Net Zero Carbon target by 2045 for the Group and its customers.
Thanks to an action plan, supplemented by objectives, operational KPIs and international commitments, which are the subject of detailed reporting, we have significantly reduced our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: in 2025, compared to 2017, our greenhouse gas emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3) fell by 45%.
We have also accelerated our strategic repositioning, focusing on our low-carbon business and helping our customers to use less and greener energy.
Distribution of a company’s greenhouse gas emissions according to the GHG Protocol scopes, highlighting the dominant share of Scope 3 emissions across the value chain.
Our carbon footprint for 2025
ENGIE’s carbon footprint on its 3 scopes (1,2 and 3) amounts to 145 Mt CO₂ eq. in 2025. This represents a reduction of 120 Mt CO₂ eq. since 2017, i.e. a 45% reduction.
Overview of a company’s decarbonization strategy, showing progress achieved by 2025 against medium- and long-term targets across key energy transition levers.
Our objectives for reducing our carbon footprint
The Group has set itself ambitious objectives for 2030, in order to materialize its ESG commitments by that date.
ENGIE becomes more ambitious and renews its objectives through the update of its climate strategy: “Say on Climate”.
The update of the Group’s climate strategy:
- Confirms ENGIE’s Net Zero 2045 objective for all its emissions (scope 1, scope 2, scope 3)
- Reinforces ENGIE’s 2030 targets, with new milestones 2035 and 2040
Here is a summary of the operational levers for action to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2045:
Overview of ENGIE’s climate strategy combining emission reduction, carbon removal, and customer support to achieve net zero by 2045.
Reducing and sequestering our greenhouse gas emissions to achieve carbon neutrality
ENGIE is aiming for carbon neutrality for all its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions . In addition, the Group has set a target for avoided or reduced emissions from its customers.
Breakdown of avoided CO₂ emissions by activity
Decarbonizing customers through ENGIE services
Regarding its customers, the Group is committed to a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a 2030 target of 65 to 85 Mt of CO2 eq. avoided each year.
To reach this target, the Group is aiming to support its customers through offers based on energy efficiency, energy sobriety, and energy demand flexibility.
The 2025 results for this objective are presented here:
OGMP 2.0 methane emission reduction targets by gas companies
Reducing our methane emissions
Methane emissions from gas networks account for less than 1% of the carbon footprint (4% of Scope 1) in 2025 and are therefore considered non-material. They relate to gas networks controlled or operated by the Group and are mainly due to venting safety procedures.
2025 marked a turning point as all of the gas infrastructure controlled or operated by the Group is now part of the OGMP 2.0 (Oil & Gas Methane Partnership), a United Nations Environment Programme initiative that aims to minimize methane emissions and establish an internationally recognized reporting framework.
In Europe, Depomures’ gas storage activity joined the OGMP 2.0 initiative this year. In Latin America, Gasoducto Norandino and ENGIE Stream Chile also joined. These activities join our entities in France (GRDF, NaTran, Elengy and Storengy), Romania (Distrigaz Sud Retele) and Latin America (Mejillones in Chile, TAG in Brazil and the DSOs and TSOs in Mexico), which were already committed to this initiative.
In addition to the commitments made by these entities, ENGIE has set itself the overall target of reducing methane emissions from its consolidated global gas networks (transport, distribution, LNG terminals and storage) by 50% between 2017 and 2030.
Mitigating our emissions through effective management tools
In order to achieve its CO₂ emissions reduction targets, the Group has developed dual capital financial and carbon accounting and begun a transformation that has enabled it to shift from a reporting approach to a performance management approach, thus carrying out large-scale operational change. To this end, ENGIE has developed management tools for both long-term strategic projections (CO₂ targets and CO₂ Medium-Term Plan (MTP)) and investment decisions, and for infra-annual operational management (CO₂ Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR)).
See the Group’s climate change mitigation actions
Finally, ENGIE’s efforts to combat climate change also involve responsible lobbying.
Adapting to the consequences of climate change and preserving nature and biodiversity
ENGIE’s adaptation plan aims to reduce the exposure of the Group’s assets and activities to the physical risks associated with climate change.
Adaptation: prepare resilience by mobilizing all existing processes
Climate change is already having numerous impacts on the energy sector, particularly with regard to asset integrity, the changing energy supply-demand balance and employees health. Alongside climate change mitigation efforts, ENGIE is therefore rolling out a process of climate change adaptation, in order to increase the resilience of its assets and operations. Analyses are carried out based on several medium- and long-term climate change scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 for 2030, 2050 and 2070).
- Model climate change: To reach a better understanding of climate change and its impacts on ENGIE, a partnership with the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace has been signed. The goal is to model, as precisely as possible, future trends in energy generation as a function of the IPCC climate change scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) as well as the impact of extreme events on all the Group’s technologies in the different regions of the world.
- Ensure the resilience of the Strategy: The impact of climate change on the Group’s strategy is also studied as part of a country-by-country approach or through an analysis of the major climate regions that are of interest to ENGIE. The Group examines this impact according to four main factors: country risk, the value of existing assets, the strategic objectives for 2030 and strategic challenges specific to the countries studied in the context of the broad spectrum of IPCC climate scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5).
- Ensure the resilience of our sites: Physical risks linked to climate change are now part of the Group’s ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) process. Various risks are studied:
– changes in production / energy demand;
– the integrity of assets and local supply chains in relation with the evolution of extreme events ;
– the health of employees, particularly because of changes in thermal stresses.
– the global portfolio of the supply chain for fuel, products and services. Ensure the resilience of our new projects
- Ensure the resilience of our new projects: Adaptation to the physical risks of climate change is embedded in the Group’s investment process. Before any new investment, a sensitivity analysis has to be carried out on changes in energy generation or demand, as well as the evolution of extreme events, as part of the new project development process.
Overview of ENGIE’s biodiversity strategy, highlighting four complementary action areas across operations, climate, value chain, and employee engagement.
Furthermore, as the preservation of biodiversity and the fight against climate change are intrinsically linked, and as its activities interact permanently with natural ecosystems, ENGIE is pursuing a proactive policy to reduce and control its footprint on biodiversity. Since 2012, the Group’s strategy has been based on a cross-cutting approach – avoid, reduce, compensate.
Climate rating and certification
- The objectives of ENGIE’s transition plan have been certified “well-below 2°C” since 2023 by SBTi2.
- The Group is also 1.5°C-aligned by 2030 by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).
- ENGIE is rated NZ-2 by Moody’s, corresponding to an ambition aligned with a 1.5°C trajectory and a solid level on target implementation.
- ENGIE received an A- rating on the latest CDP Climate questionnaire.
1. Paris Agreement or COP21: in 2015, the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris concluded with an initial agreement to limit the temperature increase to 2° C and, wherever possible, to move towards the objective of 1.5° C compared to the pre-industrial era. The text considers the needs and means of the signatory countries. It is sustainable over time with ambitions that can be revised upwards from time to time.
2. SBT or SBTi:the Science Based Targets initiative is a set of methodologies which make it possible to confirm on a scientific basis that the GHG emissions trajectory of a given organization is compatible with the objective of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2° C or 1.5° C. Some of these methods make use of the notion of a carbon budget divided between different economic sectors. SBTi is particularly interested in the energy sector, which accounts for a significant share of global greenhouse gas emissions and is closely linked to other industrial sectors.
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