Imagining futures withinplanetary boundaries
What is IF Initiative?
IF Initiative is a collaborative business approach, led by Carbone 4 with the support of six research teams, aimed at building and disseminating a new framework for business strategy.
Its objective is to help companies understand the transformations of their activities in the face of planetary boundaries and to structure their strategic engagement with their stakeholders.
why IF Initiative?
Environmental disruptions and the actions needed to limit them profoundly change the conditions in which businesses carry out their activities.
Traditional strategic approaches, mainly financial and projected in the short term, no longer allow them to anticipate the consequences that environmental crises will have on their activities.
This limits the ability of businesses to make appropriate decisions to ensure their continuity and contribute effectively to the ecological transition.
IF Initiative's actions are structured around 2 axes:
IF Initiative develops a methodological framework to strengthen the strategic thinking skills of companies based on 3 pillars:
A Foresight approach
to manage uncertainty and question the imaginary
A Collective approach
with its stakeholders to forge and form future transition alliances
A physical and systemic approach
to take into account the factors that underpin activities
Our tools are also designed to help companies meet CSRD regulatory requirements
- The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires companies to assess the risks and opportunities associated with climate change based on scenario analyses in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
- IF Initiative provides businesses with the tools they need to conduct climate scenario analyses in accordance with these requirements.
Business based
pioneer companies that support us
Open source
methods, tools and data that are accessible and widely disseminated
Research based
work carried out with research teams from six academic institutions
