While Brussels is working to significantly lighten the burden for companies under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), with the omnibus package published on 26 February, organisations in the first wave have still been required to publish their first report under this framework since the beginning of the year. The pharmaceutical group Sanofi is one of the first French companies to have done so. Its environmental, social and governance (ESG) director Laurent Lhopitallier reveals to mind RH how the company went about it.
Audited by PwC and Mazars, the first sustainability report of Sanofi was published on 13 February 2025. The French pharmaceutical company with 83,000 employees is one of the first 30 organisations with more than 500 employees and a turnover of €40 million to have published the results of this unprecedented exercise in social and environmental reporting. This report, over 150 pages long, including 30 on social aspects, relating to both the internal and the value chain, represents a “certain cont
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Antoine Piel
Section Head at Mind HR