A committed company

GSE is committed to sustainable development.

GSE has built and developed its operations in line with social, ethical and environmental concerns, through a sustainable development strategy at all levels of the Group. The Group is committed to:

  • To ensure that practices are ethical and lawful.
  • Leading the strategy
  • Respect human rights and diversity.
  • To ensure people’s safety and well-being.
  • Reducing the carbon footprint and related activities
  • Soil and biodiversity conservation
  • Waste management

GSE’s sustainable development roadmap sets out the targets for 2025, in line with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the UN.

CSR Report Our Commitment to Sustainability

GSE, a member of the Global Compact

We are one of the founding companies of the Global Compact France, where we served on the board of directors for 16 years. This long-standing commitment to sustainable development has formed the basis of our CSR strategy.

 

By joining this programme, GSE incorporates the 10 principles of the Global Compact into various aspects of the company’s operations with the aim of:

  • Human rights
  • international labour standards
  • The environment
  • The fight against corruption

GSE, Platinum rating from EcoVadis

In 2025, the rating agency EcoVadis recognised GSE’s performance in CSR with a score of 8/100, awarding it the PLATINUM level of excellence for the fourth consecutive year. GSE once again ranks in the top 1 per cent of all companies assessed by EcoVadis (out of a total of more than 100,000 companies across 175 countries and 200 sectors).

 

GSE’s consistent performance in the area of sustainable development is made possible by the commitment of our employees, with a special mention for our internal network of 90 ambassadors, who work on cross-cutting issues relating to the sustainable transformation of our company.

 

This award highlights the strong convictions of GSE, a member of the Global Compact France since its creation in 2003.

GSE Foundation

Founded in August 2018, the GSE Foundation aims to develop and support humanitarian, educational, cultural and social initiatives of general interest around the world. Under the chairmanship of Michel Gambassi, former director of operations for the Group, the GSE Foundation launched its first project by building a boarding school in Kathmandu, Nepal. It subsequently built and handed over an agricultural school in Mananjary, Madagascar.

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