More and more of us want to decarbonise and to reduce “carbon”, i.e. the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere each year (measured in CO2 equivalents). Decarbonisation brings us together, even if we each have our own reasons: to be less dependent on the rising cost of carbon, to limit climate, water and biodiversity imbalances, to reduce the burden on future generations.

A fair environmental competition between products and between investments, based on reliable environmental performance, would continuously improve this performance while leaving everyone free to make their own choices.

This is made possible by the environmental accounting measure described on the carbones-factures.org website. It gives a company its essential environmental performance: the carbon footprint of the company and its products and its annual contribution to collective decarbonisation. The company passes this information on to its partners on its invoices and accounts, to help them manage their own performance. The accountant of an SME can do this easily with a short tutorial and a calculator fed with a dozen simple questions each year.

Environmental competition helps us to reconcile money, a purely human value, and environmental balance, a value shared by all living things.

It is now up to each and every one of us to ensure that as many companies, banks and public authorities as possible experiment with and share environmental accounting measure.

As customers, savers/investors or voters, we can ask our partners, “When will you tell me about your essential environmental performance?” This triggers environmental competition and also encourages us to revisit our consumption and savings habits.

As an employee, consultant, manager or shareholder of an organisation, we can help our organisation to manage and communicate its essential environmental performance to its partners. In doing so, it gains in competitiveness and reputation.

We are particularly appealing to elected representatives of all parties : environmental competition will save public money by monitoring both money efficiency and carbon efficiency; public debates will be clarified by the consequences of decisions in these two dimensions. Elected representatives and their departments have an essential role to play in facilitating the deployment of environmental accounting measure; in helping small businesses to manage their essential environmental performance; in building up the associated statistics; in monitoring imports of sensitive products, particularly fossil fuels: checking that their accounting measures is appropriate or imposing the display of a conservative performance.

The first scientific signatories

Jean-Marc Béguin, former Director of Business Statistics at INSEE ;

Nicolas Berland, University Professor – Université Paris Dauphine-PSL ;

Didier Blanchet, Economics Measurement Chair, Paris School of Economics ;

Alain Burlaud, Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers ;

Clément Carn, Senior Lecturer at Université Paris Dauphine – PSL ;

Claire Cazes, mathematician, former student at the ENS ;

Paul Champsaur, former Director General of INSEE ;

Francis Charpentier, Associate researcher at CITEPA ;

Gabriel Colletis, Professor of Economics Université Toulouse Capitole ;

Boris GERMES, teacher ;

Olivier Haag, economic statistician ;

Yaelle Hauseux, economic statistician ;

Eric Jondeau, Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne ;

Hugues de Jouvenel, Honorary Chairman, Futuribles International ;

Jean Jouzel, climatologist, Chairman of Météo et Climat ;

Jean-Pierre Koutchouk, physicist, deputy mayor;

Elisabeth Lagadec, Retired teacher ;

Sylvain Larrieu, economist ;

Sandra Lavorel, ecologist, CNRS research director;

Frédéric Lefebvre-Naré, data lecturer, Université Paris-Cité;

Dominique Marbouty, Vice-President of the European Meteorological Society ;

Joël MAURICE, IGPC,Honorary Professor at the ENPC ;

François Meunier, economist ;

Stéphanie Nassif Veillon, teacher / writer ;

Katheline Schubert, teacher ;

Hélène Soual, Statistician and economist ;

Bridget Taxy, Neuroscience MA UCL ;

Joelle Toledano, economist ;

Michel Volle, Chairman of the Institut de l’iconomie ;

Henri Zimnovitch, Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.

The first signatories producers

Vincent Aussilloux, Special Adviser to the Commissioner-General of France Stratégie and General Rapporteur of the National Productivity Council ;

Antoine Aventur, CFO;

Bruno Aventur, Fluid design office ;

Gilles Babinet, entrepreneur ;

Caroline Bailly, Director of CSR Consulting ;

Pascal Ballayer, Business Development Consultant ;

Anne Berger, Production Director ;

Renaud Bettin, Vice President, Climate Action, Sweep ;

Fouad Bitar, Consultant ;

Flavien Brail, Entrepreneur ;

Victoria Cazes, Mental health trainer ;

Yannick Chammings, entrepreneur ;

Sébastien Connesson, entrepreneur ;

Pierre-Yves Cossé, former French Planning Commissioner ;

Tiphaine Coudret, CSR Officer ;

Guillaume Desrocques, founder of Tickarbone ;

Jérôme Dumont, certified public accountant, statutory auditor ;

Jacques-André Eberhard, Creator of Open Net, forerunner in the automation of CO2 assessments ;

Sylvie EHRET, CFO Time-sharing ;

Pascal Fonteneau, Chairman and founder of Green Connected ;

Sylvain de Forges, former Director General of Agence France Trésor ;

Cyrielle Francais, Operations Director ;

Julien Gueguen, Entrepreneur ;

Vincent Hennebelle, Chartered Accountant;

Matthieu Hug, Company director ;

Sylvain Humilière, founder, La Société Nouvelle ;

Jean-Louis Lacoste, chartered accountant;

José-Luc Leban, former Chief Financial Officer of the Renault Group;

Côme Lefranc, Financial/CSR Auditor ;

Pierre-René Lemas, former Chief Executive Officer of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations ;

Aurélien Lossouarn, eXcent eco-innovation manager ;

Alexis Loubère, Managing Partner, Sora Finance ;

Bertrand Macabéo, entrepreneur coach ;

Emile Meunier, Paris councillor ;

Emmanuel Millard, Chairman of the Association of Financial Directors and Management Controllers ;

Alain Minczeles, former head of financial management at Caisse des Dépôts ;

Laurent de Minvielle, entrepreneur and director of France’s second-largest chauffeur-driven car company ;

Daniel-Francis Morin, retired, former senior executive of foreign subsidiaries of an insurance group;

Olivier Motte, Retired banker ;

Olivier Novasque, Chairman of SideTrade ;

Gilles Olyslager, Director of Management Control ;

Antoine Paille, consultant ;

Michèle Pappalardo, former Director General of ADEME ;

François Paret, entrepreneur ;

Joël Prohin, Director of Investment Management – Caisse des Dépots ;

Jean-François STOLL, Advisor to the Chairman of the SGP Management Board ;

Sophie Sluszarek, Administrative and Financial Manager ;

Marc Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Honorary Director General, Banque de France ;

John Tanguy, Executive Director in charge of Strategy, Environment and Innovation at SGP ;

Arnaud Taverne,Real estate ;

The first citizen signatories

Christine Altuzarra, co-creator of Réconcilions-nous!

Elisabeth Basbois, retired ;

Geneviève Barrat, citizen

Lauriane Bassot, Management Controller ;

Anne Beaufumé, President of the Club des vigilants ;

Charles Bedoucha ;

Vincent Bonneau, executive ;

Damien Bourgeois, volunteer, member of the Shifters ;

Thierry Bouroulet, Chairman of Allocation climat ;

Claire Boussac, Doctor (retired) ;

Leda Caracosta, retired ;

Paraskevas Caracostas, retired ;

Jérôme Cazes, co-founder of Carbon on Invoices ;

Djemil Chafaï, Leader of the Charter for Responsible Territorial Decision Making ;

Benoît Chambourdon, local councillor and designer of MyCityCO2 ;

Gilles Cormary, craftsman;

Vincent Delègue, citizen ;

Xavier Denecker, prison visitor;

Jean-Pierre Déranlot ;

Marie-Laure Fleury, retired ;

Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld, co-founder of the Civic Pact ;

Petra Friedmann, retired ;

Pauline Gallou ;

Victor Geai, retail consultant ;

Marie Gibard, retired ;

Philippe Gillet, Retired ;

Christophe Goguelat, decarbonation facilitator ;

Thibaut Grenier ;

Stéphane Guillemot, shifter, head of accounts for a medium-sized business ;

James Haenlin, retired ;

Lydie Haenlin, retired ;

Olivier Haertig, Don en confiance ;

Jean-Claude Hazera, retired ;

Philippe Hocquet, retired ;

Francis Hourquebie, retired ;

Jeanne Hourquebie, independent ;

Sylvain Hourquebie, sales director ;

Emmanuelle Housard de la Potterie, lawyer ;

Elisabeth Humbert-Dorfmüller, Co-Chair of the SPD International ;

Laurent Kermel, engineer ;

Vianney Languille, engineer and vice-president of Allocation Climat ;

Claude Lecat ;

Pierre Le Douaron, retired ;

Grégory Leduc, engineer specialising in data analysis ;

Irina Lepetit, student ;

Pierre Lépinoy, retired ;

Baptiste Mallinjoud, climate strategy consultant ;

Camille Minczeles ;

Jincheng Ni, economist ;

Jean-Yves Oliot ;

Pascal Ordonneau, General Secretary of the Institut de l’Iconomie ;

Cédric Paitreault, executive ;

Julien Philippe ;

Patrick Poivre, student ;

Charlotte Pouget, shifteuse ;

Xavier Preel, citizen ;

Armel Prieur, spokesman for the Carbon Account Allies;

Isabelle Rabarron, co-creator of Réconcilions-nous!

Jean-Jacques Raoul, retired ;

Gilbert Reveillon, Web 3 Tokenisation & Technologies Quantiques ;

Judith Ricard, educator ;

Francoise Saunier, retired ;

Jean-François Soupizet, scientific advisor to Futuribles ;

Guy Stouls, retired, former executive ;

Marianne Stouls, translator-interpreter ;

Aurore Thomas, educator ;

Chantal Thomas, set designer ;

Alix Vanwormhoudt, student ;

Apolline Vanwormhoudt, student ;

Damien Vanwormhoudt, International Key Account Director ;

Valérie Vanwormhoudt, co-creator of Réconcilions-nous!

Nathalie Vicq, retired ;

Patrick de Verdière, shifteur ;

Alexandra Verrière, micro-business ;

Bruno Vidal, Sales Director ;

Gilles Wallis, coordinator of the Shifters Carbon Accounting Circle ;

Pierre Wekstein, Musician ;

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