CSR Strategy

Faced with the far-reaching changes to people’s ways of living and working and the urgent need to reduce its environmental impact, the real estate sector is in the midst of a transformation. Icade is mobilising on all fronts to meet social, societal and environmental expectations. To offer relevant and creative solutions, we have chosen to work with our stakeholders to co-construct our property products and services. Together, we create value at every level and by doing so, we help to build cities that are more sustainable, more inclusive and more resilient and that bring real comfort and well-being to their users.

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What is Icade doing to address the environmental, social and societal challenges of tomorrow?

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Daphné Millet

CSR Director

« Icade’s CSR goals are a central part of its strategy. We have made ambitious commitments to reduce our carbon footprint and bring our two divisions in line with a 1.5°C pathway. Icade has set two environmental priorities—namely to facilitate low-carbon transition and to preserve biodiversity. As Icade is also attentive to its stakeholders’ needs, our objective is to enable our customers to benefit from places where it is good to live and work. To accomplish this, we co-develop innovative and sustainable real estate solutions and services. In addition, we contribute to local social and economic growth through offers of affordable and inclusive housing, initiatives promoting professional integration and diversity, local partnerships, community initiatives and patronage. Lastly, our HR policy aims to attract the best talent by providing a collaborative and stimulating work environment, developing expertise, ensuring a healthy work-life balance and stepping up measures promoting diversity. »

A dynamic CSR policy

Icade’s CSR policy is built around three areas:

Environmental: Accelerating the low-carbon transition and preserving resources
Societal: Supporting new uses and promoting inclusion
Social: Developing employees' skills, fostering well-being in the workplace and promoting diversity.

Five priority issues have been identified by our internal and external stakeholders. Particular attention is paid to these issues in the CSR commitments set out in the strategic plan:

One of the ways the CSR issues were prioritised was by analysing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Icade has defined seven priority goals for which it wants to position itself as a leader and six significant goals to which it is strongly committed

A strong governance structure

To implement its CSR policy, Icade's governance bodies ensure, each at their own level and according to their roles and responsibilities, that the company's activities take into account social, environmental and business conduct issues.

The Board of Directors endeavours to promote the creation of value by the company over the long term by considering the social, environmental and business conduct challenges of its activities. At least once a year, in line with the strategy it has defined, it examines the impacts, opportunities and risks, including social, environmental and business conduct risks, and the measures taken as a result.

It validates the work of the committees described below.

The main role of the Innovation and CSR Committee is to share the strategic CSR guidelines proposed by the Executive Board, to support and relay the Executive Board's action in this area to the Board of Directors, and to prioritise areas of action in the field of CSR, ensuring that objectives are consistent with strategy; in the field of innovation, the Committee contributes to discussions and determines the strategic guidelines for the Executive Board.
The Audit and Risk Committee is responsible for assessing significant risks, including social, environmental and business conduct risks. It assesses the effectiveness and quality of internal control systems and procedures, and examines significant risks and off-balance sheet commitments.
The Joint Committee, made up of the Innovation and CSR Committee and the Audit and Risks Committee, oversees certain tasks relating to sustainability reporting. Its remit includes reviewing sustainability reporting, monitoring the implementation of policies and the achievement of related objectives, and examining issues relating to the sustainability auditor.
The Executive Committee is made up of ten members, including the CSR and Innovation Director. It implements the CSR and Innovation strategy and monitors the actions taken on a weekly basis.