Background
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, present in 26 countries, with revenues of 40.3 billion euros in 2024. It has 124,600 employees worldwide, of which 68,700 are based in France. The Group has a total customer base of 300 million customers worldwide, including 262 million mobile customers and 22 million fixed broadband customers.
Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business. In February 2023, the Group presented its strategic plan “Lead the Future”, built on a new business model and guided by responsibility and efficiency. “Lead the Future” capitalizes on network excellence to reinforce Orange’s leadership in service quality.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA).
Challenge
Orange has placed its corporate social and environmental responsibility policy at the heart of its business model. The Group has gained a clear insight into its carbon footprint, making substantial commitments within and outside France to reduce its emissions and combat climate change.
The Group’s headline goal is to achieve net zero by 2040, ten years before the industry’s recommendations, with intermediate milestones:
- Reducing its scope 1 & 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared to 2015 – already achieved 2 years ahead of schedule
- Reducing its emissions by 45% across scopes 1, 2 & 3 by 2030 compared to 2021.
As a digital company, Orange sees itself as having an important role to play in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of digital technology. The Group recognizes its two-fold responsibility to minimize its carbon footprint, while also building and maintaining resilient infrastructure to guarantee business and service continuity.
With operations – and therefore emissions – spread across 26 countries and multiple different activities, the data challenge was significant.
Orange Group needed to centralise all of its extra-financial data in one place in order to effectively track its progress and empower decision-makers to take the most effective courses of action.
Solution
Orange chose Sweep from a large field of global software vendors following a rigorous evaluation process. The Group highlights Sweep’s significant experience in working with large enterprises, as well as its status as a significant player in the French Tech ecosystem.
The Group will consolidate all of its non-financial data on the Sweep platform, establishing it as the single source of truth for carbon and ESG information across the entire organization.
To achieve its 2040 net zero goal, Orange will leverage Sweep’s Carbon and Supply Chain modules, featuring collaborative functionalities including customisable surveys, to engage with its suppliers, and help them in turn to reduce their own carbon emissions.
Sweep’s software will also serve as the Group’s main interface for regulatory reporting.
