Nos Gestes Climat for businesses, schools, municipalities and organisations.
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|Published on : 25/02/2025
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For the past few months, our team has been working on a long-awaited feature: a dedicated section for organizations. This week, we’re thrilled (and a bit nervous) to finally launch it!
What is Nos Gestes Climat for organizations?
A new tool to enhance engagement
The idea is to provide any type of organization, whether a company, local government, association or informal organization, the ability to create its own Nos Gestes Climat group. This includes a specific URL, a dashboard to track statistics (such as the number of participants and average footprint) as well as insights about the strengths and weaknesses of the group members as of their individual carbon footprint.
Each participant in the group can complete the Nos Gestes Climat test and compare their results with other members of the organization.
Statistics to compare and motivate
On the dashboard, the group administrator can enable two additional questions: location and age of respondents, allowing to compare across such demographics.
Comparing oneself to "peers" (colleagues in the same company, residents of the same city or members of the same association) is a strong motivational tool. Understanding your footprint is the first step toward reducing it.
Commitment to data privacy
Nos Gestes Climat is strictly committed to respecting user anonymity. It is not possible to view individual scores of organization members, each respondent only has access to their own results and can compare them with group averages.
Additionally, dashboards only are visible once a sufficient number of completed simulations are recorded, ensuring privacy protection.
Why use the organization journey?
Grasping the big picture
Climate issues are at the forefront of global discussions and many organizations are eager to take action in two ways:
- Reducing their own environmental impact
- Helping employees, citizens, or members take action at their own level
Alongside internal workshops and training programs (such as climate awareness workshops), setting up a Nos Gestes Climat campaign allows organizations to quickly engage a large audience while providing key insights of individual carbon footprints and actionable steps for improvement.
What comes next?
Understanding your carbon footprint is the first step to reducing it. On a national (or even global) scale, we face an urgent challenge: cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Our emissions remain among the highest worldwide.
At the end of the simulation, participants receive action recommendations to quantify the impact of behavioral changes. The choice is then theirs!
Setting up a Nos Gestes Climat campaign within an organization also leverages the power of collective action in two key ways:
Some actions are only effective at a collective scale:
- In a company, analyzing commuting habits may reveal the need for an internal carpooling platform or funding for employee bicycles.
- In an apartment complex or shared housing, reducing heating energy use may highlight the importance of insulation improvements.
Group dynamics are a powerful motivator:
- After Dry January, how about a "Veggie March"?
- What about an internal "Nothing New" challenge?
The best part? These collective efforts lead to measurable and real results!
“This is perfect for us! How do we get started?”
Getting started is easy:
- Set up your organization’s journey on Nos Gestes Climat
- Share the link and launch a structured awareness and action campaign using our outreach kit.
- Track progress in real time using your online dashboard.
Julie,
For the past ten years Julie has been committed to the transition of our society. She joined the Nos Gestes Climat team in 2023 as a carbon specialist and is responsible for the clarity of the calculator and published content.
