Setting Sector Standards for Climate Action: Carrefour on Data, Targets and Supplier Alignment

In this interview with the World Climate Foundation, Agathe Grossmith from Carrefour explains how the company is using its position as a global retailer to set direction and standards across the sector. Their role is to provide a clear message to the market about what the future must look like.  

For the past six years, Carrefour has tracked its performance through a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Food Transition Index. This index aggregates key sustainability indicators and long-term targets, helping the company understand whether it is on course and allowing it to publish progress for each KPI as well as the overall score. It serves as both a guide and a governance tool.  

“One of our key engagements is to make sure that we have 8 billion euros total turnover coming from sustainability certified products by 2026”. 

Data plays a crucial role in meeting these goals and helps the company identify the most important levers for reducing its carbon footprint. Grossmith stresses that data must be proportional to the action required. The goal is not to gather perfect data for its own sake but to ensure that data leads to meaningful climate action. 

The interview was recorded at the World Climate Summit & The Investment COP 2025 in Belém. 

Watch the full conversation: 

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Agathe Grossmith, Sustainability Global Director, Carrefour Group

Agathe GROSSMITH is CSR Director at Carrefour. She holds a post graduate degree in environmental management and a Master’s degree in chemical engineering.  

As Carrefour CSRD Director, she is in charge of driving the sustainability performance of the group. Her mission is to shape into concrete actions and targets the food transition for all that Carrefour set up as its business purpose.

To define and implement the right actions for the transformation in stores and supply chain, she is engaging and building up partnerships with various actors among stakeholders and suppliers.

She now holds a 18 years experience in retail sustainability with a strong focus on governance, sustainability reporting and supply chain and commodities transformation.