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Methods for Defining Climate Change Mitigation Strategies at Organisational Level Review and Outlook

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  • Nicolas Desmoitier
  • Jean Roman
  • Benoit Hilloulin
  • Emmanuel Rozière
  • Alexis Laurent

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The private sector has a pivotal role in contributing to the objective of the Paris Agreement and its 1.5° target. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework to define and implement climate change mitigation strategies in organisations. The current study aims to fill this gap by performing a critical review of existing schemes that can make a partial contribution to the definition of such strategies. We found 25 schemes used by private sector or studied in the literature by international NGOs and academic searcher and evaluated them based on 15 criteria developed for this study in order to cover key components of an effective framework for CCMS in organisations. No scheme fulfils all the criteria, but significant differences are observed between them, ranging from 0% to 80% of the criteria met. Based on this analysis, we propose a first harmonized five‐step iterative framework to define organisational climate change mitigation strategies. Eventually, the results of the schemes review and the framework proposal draw up a research agenda to derive robust, credible and operational climate strategies at organizational levels.

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  • Nicolas Desmoitier & Jean Roman & Benoit Hilloulin & Emmanuel Rozière & Alexis Laurent, 2025. "Methods for Defining Climate Change Mitigation Strategies at Organisational Level Review and Outlook," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(3), pages 2813-2834, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:34:y:2025:i:3:p:2813-2834
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.4130
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