Risk management services provider Apave Group announced the acquisition of French carbon accounting firm Aktio, in a move aimed at helping Apave to strengthen its expertise in sustainability and decarbonization.

Founded in 2020, Paris-based Aktio provides climate consulting services and greenhouse gas accounting and management software solutions aimed at supporting companies in their low-carbon transition. The company’s platform supports companies in measuring their carbon footprint, setting climate targets and defining a low-carbon trajectory, implementing decarbonization plans, complying with regulations such as CSRD, and communicating and training on the low-carbon transition approach.

Since launching, Aktio has grown to approximately 40 experts, climate consultants and web developers, and has supported 500 organizations in addressing their decarbonization challenges.

Aktio co-founders Laurent Barbezieux, Alex Huyn and Thibault Faninger said:

“At a time when the risks and consequences of climate change are intensifying, it is more essential than ever to democratize the low-carbon transition as quickly as possible. Joining the Apave Group, a leading player in environmental consulting and auditing, is an exceptional acceleration opportunity for Aktio, to equip, train and support the carbon accountants of tomorrow.”

According to Apave, the acquisition will help strengthen its ‘Green & Social’ range of services, which aimsto support the success of their clients’ transition plans across areas including energy transition, climate transition, and social and societal transition. Apave’s benchmark entity in terms of sustainability will be the newly formed Aktio-Apave, formed by combining Aktio’s experts and consultants and the experts and consultants from Apave’s ‘Climate and Sustainability’ department.

Philippe Maillard, CEO of the Apave Group, said:

“Today, we are taking a new step with the acquisition of Aktio, fully in line with our corporate purpose: ‘To act as a trusted partner to make the world safer, more sustainable and a source of shared progress.’ We are thus accelerating our desire to be able to support our clients even more and better in their sustainable performance objectives, whether these relate to technical, human, environmental, digital or climate issues.”