On the path to sustainability

Leverage environmental and social transition  to drive your teams and business performance and innovation

About us

Sustainability consulting and Transition strategies.

At Horbe, we help you align financial performance with lasting positive impact.

We believe that managing transition risks is a powerful source of innovation and resilience. Planetary boundaries, employee well-being, ethics and transparency: each represents an opportunity to boost performance and attractiveness—provided the right choices are made. Our team supports you in designing and deploying transition strategies tailored to your organisation and your activities, ensuring a meaningful and lasting impact.

At Horbe, we stand out by:

identifying high-value, high-impact opportunities with you
turning commitments into concrete, pragmatic actions engaging
your key stakeholders around a shared, inspiring vision

Our solutions

We team with you to design solutions tailored to your challenges and to the specificities of your sector and culture. Whatever your organization’s level of maturity, we encourage you to involve your stakeholders in shaping and implementing your sustainability strategy, ensuring it meets both their expectations and your strategic priorities. Investors, executives and governance bodies, customers, employees, partners, suppliers, civil society, the environment—our ESG expertise and our commitment to collective intelligence help bring all your stakeholders into alignment, creating the conditions for shared success.

Assess

Sustainability audit 
ESG risks, double materiality 
GHG assessment ( GHG Protocol ), Bilan Carbone®  
Supplier audit 
Gender equality

Manage

Sustainability governance 
Action plans 
Impact measurement  & management 
Benchmarking  & best practices

Promote

Non-financial reporting 
Sustainability charter 
Sustainable branding

Unite

Excom / Mancom workshops 
Employee workshops 
Stakeholder consultation 
Murals (climate, biodiversity, circular economy, diversity)

Train

Responsible purchasing 
Responsible communication 
Other sustainable roles 
Coaching/Mentoring

Tailor-made

Sustainability strategy 
Climate strategy 
Decarbonisation strategy 
Gender equality / diversity  & inclusion policies

Business Cases

Challenges
A major French player in car and utility vehicle rental, the compagnie is thriving in a highly competitive market and accelerating growth through strategic acquisitions. Keen to maintain pride in belonging to its brand, the company needs to attract and retain more talent. At the same time, it is considering how to structure a comprehensive sustainabiliy approach to meet its investors and creditors’ demands.

Solution
Over 600 employees were engaged to assess existing CSR initiatives and share their expectations regarding the company’s environmental, social, and societal commitments.

Drawing on their insights, as well as on feedback from external stakeholders, a tailor-made sustainability strategy was co-created—fully aligned with the company’s business priorities and culture.

Results
– A clearer view of existing initiatives, both within the company and externally.

– Jointly defined action priorities and a practical sustainability roadmap.

– A plan to communicate and promote the sustainability approach, aligned with stakeholder expectations.

Challenges

As France’s second-largest decentralized port and owned by the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region, the Port of Sète Sud de France is a key player in logistics and an active member of a diverse port community. Strongly committed to the energy transition and environmental protection, the Port sought to extend its sustainable development policy to social and societal dimensions as part of its 2026–2030 Strategic Plan.

Solution

Using Horbe’s collective intelligence tools, the Senior leadership team reviewed the Port’s current sustainability initiatives and identified the main challenges ahead. They took into account internal and etxernal stakeholders’ expectations, as well as sector best practices, both collected by Horbe.

The 2026–2030 Strategic Plan integrates ESG objectives directly into the Port’s economic and commercial priorities.

Results

– A deeper understanding of sustainability ssues across the port community
– The development and structuring of social and societal engagement policies, alongside optimized environmental initiatives
– Clear identification of roles and responsibilities for implementing defined action plans

Challenges

As an international trading company specialising in the supply of construction materials and steel products, Globexco is recognised by its customer partners for its ongoing commitment to providing products and services that meet high quality standards. Aware of the environmental and social issues raised by the increase in global trade, Globexco’s management wishes to involve its stakeholders in adopting more responsible practices.

Solution

In partnership with Horbe, Globexco defined its purpose while articulating its ambition to be a leader in sustainable trade and making concrete commitments to all its stakeholders—customers and end users, suppliers, logistics partners, civil society, and the environment. The company also redefined its brand identity and communication codes to reflect its new sustainability-focused vision.

Results

An innovative positioning that unites the brand’s commercial ambitions with its sustainability commitments, while fostering a broad ecosystem of responsible actors across the value chain.

Challenges

Founded in 2022, the Les Deux Rives association aims to transform a dense business district spanning Paris’s 12th and 13th arrondissements into a circular neighbourhood. Inspired by industrial symbiosis principles, its diverse members—economic players from various sectors and sizes—organised themselves into working groups to explore potential synergies. However, progress within these groups was uneven.

Solution

Les Deux Rives partnered with Horbe to take stock of identified synergies, assess and facilitate the overall industrial symbiosis approach, and provide recommendations for successful collaboration among the players involved.

Results

– An analysis of the key obstacles and drivers for effective collaboration
– Clearer pathways to leverage synergies and mutualisations within the neighbourhood
– Enhanced conditions for a coordinated, circular approach across all stakeholders

Challenges

Balearia, a pioneer in liquefied natural gas for Spanish maritime transport, is known for its eco-efficient “smart” ships. Recently, the company has intensified its social and societal initiatives, aiming to create value for both employees and external stakeholders.

Solution

Based on Horbe’s recommandations and support, in order to make its sustainability strategy more visible and impactful, Balearia designed a roadmap around Planet, People, and Society—fully aligned with its commercial goals. This approach showcases its dedication to decarbonising maritime transport while enhancing the well-being of teams and communities.

Results

– A clear, actionable sustainability roadmap with measurable impact indicators
– Streamlined non-financial reporting
– Consistent, valued initiatives embraced both internally and externally

On the path to sustainability

About us

Sustainability consulting and Transition strategies.

At Horbe, we stand out by:

Our solutions

Assess

Manage

Promote

Unite

Train

Tailor-made

Business Cases

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