Environment

We're a software company that’s dedicated to enabling customers from all sectors of the economy to innovate sustainably. But just as importantly, we’re fully committed to applying a science-based approach to minimize our own environmental footprint and maximize our handprint.

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Sustainability is both a responsibility and a driver of transformation. With our new SBTi-validated net-zero target, we are reinforcing the scientific rigor of our climate trajectory while helping customers use virtual twins to better model, understand and improve the impact of their decisions. This dual commitment is at the heart of Dassault Systèmes’ role in the Generative Economy.
Philippine de T’Serclaes
Chief Sustainability Officer

The Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommends a set of information companies should disclose to allow investors, lenders, insurance underwriters and other stakeholders to adequately access and evaluate financial risks and financial impacts related to climate change.

This four-dimensional framework includes climate commitments/strategy, governance, risk management and metrics & targets.

We apply TCFD's recommendations to outline our methodology for managing the critical issue of environmental sustainability.

Each section below shares about our company’s approach to addressing the risks linked to our environmental impact, with a particular emphasis on climate action.

For a summary of the ways in which Dassault Systèmes integrates environmental considerations into our operations, download our Environmental Statement.

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Our Climate Commitments & Strategy

Our Climate Commitments

In 2021, Dassault Systèmes joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and set its first greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, covering Scopes 1 and 2 and selected Scope 3 categories.

Dassault Systèmes has since achieved its first SBTi targets ahead of their 2027 deadline. Building on this progress, the Company strengthened its climate roadmap in 2026 with new near-term and net-zero science-based targets validated by SBTi Services.

Dassault Systèmes now commits to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2050. Its new SBTi-validated targets include reducing absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 65.0% by 2035 from a 2024 base year, reducing Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 66.33% per EUR value added by 2035, and reducing emissions from the use of sold products beyond the minimum boundary by 66.33% per EUR value added within the same timeframe.

In the long term, Dassault Systèmes also commits to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 90.0% by 2050 from a 2024 base year, reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 90.0% within the same timeframe, and reduce absolute emissions from the use of sold products beyond the minimum boundary by 90.0% within the same timeframe.

We firmly believe collaboration is critical to address global climate change, and we continue to work with stakeholders and international initiatives to support the transition to a more sustainable economy.

We’ve both joined and helped found global initiatives to promote sustainable development, such as the European Green Digital Coalition , the Uni ted Nations Global Compact, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) supporters’ network, Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) as well as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Find out more about our sustainability targets.

Our Strategy

Our approach to mitigating climate change takes into account both our environmental footprint (such as our greenhouse gas emissions) and the handprint (such as the avoided emissions) our products and services can allow.

Footprint: we manage our direct footprint in many ways:
- Real Estate and Facilities: Select eco-efficient workplaces, sort ordinary waste and deploy ISO 50 001 certification when relevant,
- Procurement: Purchase low carbon energy, evaluate the sustainability performance of purchased products and initiate dialogue with key suppliers; more detail on our purchasing policies can be found here.
- Mobility: deployment of our Travel Smarter, Travel Greener policy, and of the remote work two days a week;
- Information Technology: challenge data centers’ energy efficiency, extend hardware lifespan and manage e-waste.
- Read Chapter 2 of our 2025 Universal Registration Document for a more complete description of our environmental actions, transition plan, climate-related targets and KPIs.
Handprint: we recognize that climate change and pressures on natural resources require managing risks while also capturing the enormous opportunities related to the sustainable transformation of the economy.
A key tenant of our climate and environmental risks mitigation strategy is the development of solutions that enable our clients to minimize their own environmental footprint, such as virtual prototyping solutions to avoid wasted materials in the product development and testing phase and designing intelligent cities that optimize resource use.

Governance

As social, societal and environmental responsibility is a core element of Dassault Systèmes’ strategy and achievements, we’ve established a governance system to ensure that social and environmental issues are better taken into account within the company and the Board of Directors.

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors considers sustainability when reviewing and setting multi‑year strategic guidelines. We’ve appointed an independent director as Lead Director of Sustainable Development within our Board of Directors to review our ESG targets, action plans and achievements. This role is currently held by Genevieve Berger (Discover her biography)

Additionally, each committee of the Board of Directors has sustainability objectives related to their missions.

For example:

the Scientific Committee reviews the evolution of our sustainability solutions portfolio and analyses the potential technological breakthroughs impacting the market
the Audit Committee reviews new ESG reporting requirements and related matters,
the Compensation and Selection Committee reviews the performance criteria, including the ESG indicator, for the annual variable compensation of the executive officers.

The members of these three Board of Directors committees meet at two annual sessions, one dedicated to sustainability and the other to risk prevention and management within the company, including ESG risks.

Executive Operating Committee

Our Executive Operating Committee includes a dedicated member responsible for our sustainability strategic roadmap in terms of product development to help customers become more sustainable (handprint) and manage our company’s environmental footprint. This role is held by Florence Verzelen, Executive Vice-President, Industry, Marketing & Sustainability.

Operational Actors

The Sustainability Steering Committee brings together the executive managers of Dassault Systèmes’ key functions four times a year to discuss action plans and progress in support of our sustainable development strategy.

Our Chief Sustainability Officer is this committee’s secretary, and is responsible for leading Dassault Systèmes’ sustainable development strategy around three pillars:

Expertise - "supporting exemplary footprint", which commits to the highest standard of Sustainability ambitions, orchestrates environmental reporting operations, the management of extra-financial ratings and the animation of the network of ESG contributors,
Ecosystem - "developing networks", which builds relations/partnerships with internal, institutional, academic, analyst, and integrator partners on sustainable development issues to raise the voice of Dassault Systèmes as an enabler for Sustainability.
Engagement - "enabling customer transitions", which engages with existing and new customers to imagine new solutions and business models to enable and accelerate their sustainable transformations, particularly in line with the sustainable development factors retained by the EU Taxonomy.

Philippine De T'Serclaes has been our CSO since 2022; read more about her nomination.

Finally, in 2021, our Finance Department created a Sustainable Finance and Procurement Unit charged ensuring the reliability of the reporting process and non‑financial information, the calculation of indicators relating to the EU Taxonomy and the risk assessment on the basis of climate scenarios.

Double Materiality Assessment

In 2024 as per the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, Dassault Systèmes initiated Double Materiality Analysis (DMA) of its impacts, risks and opportunities. Since this date, this analysis is updated annually.

The DMA methodology is in line with the Company risk management methodology, in particular with regard to the scales for estimating the likelihood and the materiality of impacts, correspondences between the risks addressed in the Company’s risk management and the risks, impacts or opportunities identified by the DMA, and to the assessment of materiality in the short and medium term.

Dimension	SASB Materiality Map (Software & IT Services)
Environment	Energy Management
Social Capital	Customer Privacy Data Security
Human Capital	Employee Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion
Leadership & Governance	Competitive Behavior Systemic Risk Management

Metrics & Targets

We recognize that leading climate action requires setting science-based targets, monitoring progress and transparently reporting our impact. We report our environmental targets, GHG emissions, energy consumption, Scope 3 methodology, transition plan and related KPIs in Chapter 2 of our 2025 Universal Registration Document.

Metrics

We use the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to measure and to analyze our carbon footprint. The assessment of these GHG emissions includes:

Scope 1: direct emissions related to natural gas, use of refrigerants, fuel for generators and company cars.
Scope 2: indirect emissions related to electricity and urban heating and cooling.
Scope 3: indirect emissions related to business travel required to maintain relations with customers and partners, employees’ commute, purchased goods and services, capital goods, recycling of ordinary, electric and electronic waste, and emissions related to the upstream energy referred to in the GHG Protocol, such as fuel-and-energy-related activities.

Note on Scope 3 emissions from Use of Solutions Sold:

Emissions related to the use of Dassault Systèmes’ sold products are mostly indirect and depend on several external factors, such as customers’ electricity mix, time of use of the solution and IT infrastructure. As a result, this category involves a significant level of uncertainty and should be considered as an order of magnitude.

Nevertheless, Dassault Systèmes voluntarily estimates and reports emissions from the use of sold products. In 2025, Scope 3 Category 11 “Use of Solutions Sold” amounted to 118,231 tCO₂-eq, compared with 114,078 tCO₂-eq in 2024 and 116,841 tCO₂-eq in 2019.

This indicator is now part of Dassault Systèmes’ SBTi-validated climate roadmap. The Company commits to reduce GHG emissions from the use of sold products beyond the minimum boundary by 66.33% per EUR value added by 2035, from a 2024 base year, and by 90.0% by 2050.

Targets

In 2026, Dassault Systèmes’ new near-term and net-zero science-based targets were validated by the Science Based Target initiative.

These targets build on the Company’s first SBTi trajectory, whose 2027 objectives were achieved ahead of schedule in 2025. They mark the next step of Dassault Systèmes’ climate roadmap, with a stronger focus on value chain decarbonization, Scope 3 emissions and emissions from the use of sold products.

Dassault Systèmes’ SBTi-validated targets are:

Net-zero target: achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2050.
Near-term Scope 1 and 2 target: reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 65.0% by 2035 from a 2024 base year.
Near-term Scope 3 target: reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions by 66.33% per EUR value added by 2035 from a 2024 base year.
Near-term Use of Sold Products target: reduce GHG emissions from the use of sold products beyond the minimum boundary by 66.33% per EUR value added by 2035 from a 2024 base year.
Long-term Scope 1 and 2 target: reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 90.0% by 2050 from a 2024 base year.
Long-term Scope 3 target: reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions by 90.0% by 2050 from a 2024 base year.
Long-term Use of Sold Products target: reduce absolute GHG emissions from the use of sold products beyond the minimum boundary by 90.0% by 2050 from a 2024 base year.

Read the press release about our SBTi commitment

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ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management System

Specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system (EnMS). The intended outcome is to enable an organization to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement of energy performance and the EnMS.
Our EnMS is implemented in over 50 Dassault Systèmes sites worldwide. The scope of the certification is management of the maintenance and energy performance of Dassault Systèmes and provides evidence of our commitment to continuous improvement in energy consumption and in fostering sustainability awareness with our contributors and employees.

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