The development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), offers numerous advantages for your company—economic, social, and environmental. Coupled with financial performance, extra-financial performance enriches your decision-making data, enabling a 360-degree management of your overall performance.
What is ESG?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to a company’s commitment to integrating 3 key issues into its strategy:
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Social concerns
Working conditions, training, diversity, health, and safety…
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Environmental concerns
Greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, natural resources, material and product footprint, reduction pathways to align with ecological transition.
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Governance concerns
Business ethics and transparency, linking compensation to ESG objectives, supplier relations and value chain, professional gender balance.
CSR has become essential in today’s business world. This strategy, which incorporates sustainable development concerns into performance, has a significant impact on SMEs and big corporations companies.
Its voluntary application offers advantages in terms of sustainable development and overall performance. The challenges are important, and implementing a CSR approach requires a well-defined action plan.
Our CSR and Extra-Financial Offer
A global approach combining financial statements and sustainability reports.
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Training & Diagnosis
- Training on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues
- Training on voluntary and regulatory frameworks
- Diagnosis and extra-financial strategy action plan
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Reporting & Compliance
- Carbon footprint assessment
- Extra-financial reporting
- Extra-financial audit
- Sapin II Act (transparency and anti-corruption policies)
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Transformation
- Sustainable finance
- Supplier sourcing and sustainable procurement solutions
- Adaptation plan
- Transformation plan
Why develop a CSR approach in your company?
The environment in which you and your teams operate is evolving rapidly. Extra-financial data provides answers and opens new perspectives for business development.
Environmental, social, and economic responsibility is now a key criterion of trust and commitment—for employees, customers, financial partners, and insurers alike.
This new reality, which profoundly reshapes business paradigms, plays a crucial role in access to financing and participation in tenders. Implementing a CSR policy within your company is a decisive competitive advantage.
How can you boost your competitiveness in the French marketplace?
Adopting a CSR approach—whether voluntary or regulatory, structured and thoughtful—becomes a major asset to enhance your attractiveness and resilience in a shifting market environment.
Want to make a difference? 8 good reasons to integrate CSR now
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Risk reduction
CSR provides knowledge of environmental, social, and governance risks for proactive management. By identifying them, you can define strategies and implement action plans to limit, adapt, and gain a decisive competitive edge.
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Cost reduction
By adopting responsible practices, you reduce costs in the short, medium, and long term. CSR enables sustainable transformations, lowers operating expenses, reduces financing and insurance costs, and ensures compliance.
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Time savings
Within the framework of planetary boundaries, ESG is not optional. Acting now means planning and anticipating rather than merely enduring. Action involves training, building effective datasets, tracking trajectories, securing financing, and connecting with responsible suppliers and service providers. COGEP CSR supports you throughout your transformation, respecting your budgets.
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Positive contribution to society
Adopting CSR allows you to play an active role in addressing social and environmental challenges, creating a tangible positive impact.
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Sustainable innovation
Implementing CSR encourages you to rethink your business model in a virtuous way. It drives innovation and the development of new responsible products and services, more respectful of the planet and life.
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Access to new markets
By meeting stakeholder expectations—clients, suppliers, shareholders, and financiers—CSR opens access to new market segments, especially those favoring environmentally responsible products and services, giving you a decisive competitive edge.
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Employer branding
Employees are increasingly sensitive to values and ethics. A company engaged in CSR strengthens its employer brand, becoming more attractive for recruiting and retaining talent.
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Improved corporate reputation
Responsible practices enhance resilience and reputation among stakeholders (clients, employees, investors). A committed CSR approach is encouraged and supported by your entire ecosystem.
Implementing ESG in your company is both ethical and strategic.
COGEP CSR: your partner for sustainable performance
COGEP CSR relies on trained, dedicated teams to help accelerate your company’s sustainable performance.
COGEP has been committed to CSR development for over 50 years. Our values drive us to amplify our actions and increase our sustainable, positive impact on society.
We believe that the true wealth of our organization lies in the people who make it up. That’s why we place human beings at the center of our decisions and actions. Guided by this purpose, we believe the economy can only remain virtuous if it places people at the heart of sustainable and responsible growth.
Our global advisory approach—combining technical expertise and sector knowledge—translates into a personalized support journey, built on 2 fundamental pillars:
- Tailored guidance, adapted to your maturity and progress stage, provided by our CSR experts for conscious and informed action.
- Innovative and sustainable strategic thinking to secure your business model.
COGEP CSR means:
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A dedicated expert team, complementary to other COGEP services
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A scientific approach based on state-of-the-art practices
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Sector-specific expertise
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The best of technology and human insight
Attentive to your specific needs, our teams commit to structuring and managing an ESG strategy tailored to your environmental, social, and governance challenges.
Together, let’s accelerate your company’s sustainable transformation.
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Contact usFAQ – What are the 7 principles of CSR?
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Accountability
Organizations must report on their impacts on society and the local ecosystem.
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Transparency
Requires clear communication of decisions and activities, notably through accessible CSR reporting.
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Ethical behavior
Involves conduct based on honesty and fairness in professional relationships.
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Recognition of stakeholders
Identifying and considering stakeholder expectations, fostering dialogue and co-construction.
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Respect for the rule of law
Companies must act within applicable laws and regulations, without compromise.
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Respect for international standards
Aligns practices with recognized standards beyond local requirements, such as UN Sustainable Development Goals or OECD guidelines.
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Respect for human rights
Ensures dignity by eliminating discrimination, exploitation, or violations of fundamental freedoms.
As a business leader, am I concerned by ESG?
Whatever the size of your company, ESG is now an essential criterion in B2B relationships. Your clients, investors, and business partners increasingly expect assurances about your non-financial performance.
As a business leader, am I concerned by ESG?
SMEs have access to several mechanisms:
- Traditional bank green loans
- Bpifrance financing dedicated to ecological transition
- ADEME subsidies (covering up to 70% of costs)
- Regional aid for CSR projects
