Confronting the Climate Emergency: Low-Carbon, Sustainable Solutions

Our commitment is clear: to reduce our carbon footprint and support our partners—farmers, livestock producers, industrial players—on the path to decarbonization. That means taking action every day, while keeping a long-term vision. In 2024, we stepped up our efforts. Our decarbonization strategy is built on multiple, complementary, and highly operational levers.

Acting at the Source—Starting on the Farm

Saipol is driving change with tools like OleoZE, which rewards low-carbon farming practices. In just five years, over €20 million have been redistributed to farmers committed to sustainability. We’re also building partnerships—such as with InVivo—to accelerate the development of regenerative agriculture.

Measuring better to decide better: Sanders, France’s leading animal nutrition company, has introduced carbon footprint labeling on ruminant feed and launched an innovative tool, the “carbonometer.” Its goal is to help farmers measure the total emissions of their livestock operations, relative to the liter of milk or kilogram of meat produced.

Offering Low-Carbon Solutions to Our Clients

With Oleo100—a 100% plant-based and renewable fuel made from French rapeseed—we’ve already equipped more than 17,000 vehicles in sectors such as road transport, construction, and waste collection. Today, nearly 2,000 fuel tanks have been deployed across France to serve heavy-duty vehicle fleets.

Transforming Our Industrial Sites

The EOS Green Path program, led at the Group level, involves our 18 most energy-intensive sites, with the goal of achieving 12 to 15% energy savings over three years. In Italy, the Costa d’Oro solar plant already provides about 60% energy self-sufficiency for the site. At the Lesieur Cristal facility in Ain Harrouda, Morocco, construction began in 2024 on a photovoltaic power station. Meanwhile, the Expur cogeneration unit in Romania covers 92% of the site’s electricity needs and 100% of its steam.

Investing in the Future

Transformation is not possible without innovation. That’s why we’re investing in solutions for a decarbonized future—from agronomy to animal nutrition, from logistics to industry.
In 2024, we advanced agricultural digitization by launching, through the FASO, a major call for projects focused on input reduction and climate adaptation in farming. Our involvement in BioTJet, an industrial unit producing second-generation biofuels from biomass, reflects our ability to anticipate, test, and deploy real-world solutions.

A Pragmatic, Consistent, Forward-Looking Approach

This momentum is collective. We act alongside our employees and supply chains, everywhere we operate, to accelerate the rise of sustainable models that are locally rooted and globally responsible.

Results are already visible. But we must go further. At Avril, we do not see climate action, competitiveness, and sovereignty as opposing forces. On the contrary—we work every day to reconcile them through practical solutions.

This is how we live our purpose: #ServingTheEarth—responding to the environmental emergency without turning away from our economic and agricultural responsibilities.