Business for planet modeling

Make strategic business decisions for a world that is more finite, complex, and unpredictable than ever.

Faced with the challenges related to climate change, organizations need to make decisions today that will have a lasting effect. It’s a heavy responsibility: The impact of the choices made now could last decades.

Leaders need to be able to pivot quickly yet securely, adjusting their strategies in the face of geopolitical disruptions, economic shocks, or natural disasters. The solution? A model that can help them make fact-based decisions based on trusted projections and scenarios, comprising hundreds of factors that could impact their business, including:

Climate change
The economy, policies, and regulations
Energy sources and infrastructure
Progress of Climate Tech
Natural resources

Capgemini built Business for Planet Modeling to help businesses develop better climate-aligned strategies and investments with greater precision. Using data-driven predictions, it integrates complex interactions between these factors, creating a strategic digital twin model of your business using both company and public data to show the impacts at a global or local level.

“With Business for Planet Modeling, you can make fact-based business, investment, and transition decisions with greater precision and certainty, and stress-test your plans and strategies against a range of future scenarios more easily.”
Philippe Sottocasa, Business for Planet Modeling Program Director and VP Account CTO

A robust path through unprecedented challenges

Open-source technology offers industry-leading insights

Business for Planet Modeling originated from Capgemini’s collaboration with open-source initiative OS-Climate. This collaboration resulted in the creation of WITNESS, the OS-Climate transition scenario analysis tool. WITNESS is an open-source integrated assessment model (IAM)¹ that includes over 300,000 variables.

WITNESS benefits from the latest scientific algorithms and is constantly upgraded by the open-source developer community. Furthermore, WITNESS can replicate scenarios generated by The International Energy Agency (IEA) or The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

For example, average global temperatures were updated to 1.3°C above average in 2023. WITNESS found that this global warming projection would lead to an estimated extra $15 trillion loss to global GDP by 2100.

Business for Planet Modeling is also based on the SoSTrades simulation platform, whose development is now led by Capgemini. It builds on the capabilities of both tools to offer the most robust, versatile, and detailed scenarios available.

“Based on the WITNESS model and SoSTrades multidisciplinary platform, we believe that Business for Planet Modeling is one of the most promising solutions to have evolved from industry and the Linux organization working together.”
Alain Chardon, Energy Transition Director, Capgemini Invent

Business and industry scenarios

Business for Planet Modeling enables decision-makers to analyze multiple business scenarios, stress-testing them against a wide range of factors. It not only considers macroeconomic variables like finance, climate, and energy but also calculates their interdependencies. The results are fully auditable, customizable, and scalable.

_{1 Simplified representations of complex physical and social system, focusing on the interaction between economy, society, and the environment. (https://www.iamconsortium.org/what-are-iams/)}

Example use cases

Financial services

The challenge: Banking and asset management institutions need to assess the impact of transition and physical risks on their equity and loan portfolios to drive better business decisions and optimize their capital allocation. They also need to know how the financed emissions of their portfolios will evolve to accelerate their net-zero transition.

Our approach: Business for Planet Modeling enhances banks’ risk management and forecasting. The approach complements existing solutions with risk modeling advisory or a cloud-based modular platform that simulates the impact of global variables, including physical and transition risks, on investment and loan portfolios. Together, we can generate climate-influenced financial statements and financed emissions projections to support portfolio transition and improve returns.

Automotive

The challenge: Automotive players need to identify areas where hydrogen (H2) mobility can compete effectively with other emerging technologies. This involves assessing various regions and markets to determine where hydrogen-powered vehicles can offer distinct advantages in terms of infrastructure, cost, and environmental impact.

Our approach: We create a model of the ecosystem, including vehicle segmentation, engine types, fuel and energy production, and delivery, to the point of consumption (charging, fueling). By performing a global multi-factor evaluation, we define the optimum scenarios and conditions of H2 cost and access versus other investment opportunities.

Manufacturing

The challenge: Organizations in the manufacturing industry need to secure substantial long-term investments while evaluating the resilience of future products and assets in a rapidly changing market landscape. Additionally, they must assess how these innovations will contribute to achieving decarbonization goals.

The approach: We create a model of a manufacturer’s portfolio of products and assets and then assess against a variety of scenarios with parameters such as damage-adjusted GDP, emission taxes, carbon policies, energy mix and price, resource availability, and land demand constraints.

Public sector

The challenge: Ministries of economy, industry, energy, agriculture, and low carbon and environmental transition need to collaborate with business sectors, labor unions, and NGOs to shape future policies. Currently, these policies are quantified separately and lack consistency. As a result, stakeholders may not fully grasp the consequences of their proposals.

Our approach: We create a platform where the consulted public and private players deposit their scenarios and targets. Interactions, costs, and benefits for the country are instantly calculated, and specific specialized models from ministries can be consistently articulated.

“What if you could work with your ecosystem to align on transition scenarios and associated assumptions and outcomes? Business for Planet Modeling brings a dynamic approach for our clients to implement key sustainability priorities – such as process investments, portfolio transition, manufacturing flexibility, and energy investments in plants and group-wide.”
Corinne Jouanny, Head of Portfolio and Industry Centers of Excellence, Capgemini Engineering

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For most of my 25-year career, I’ve shaped complex deals and built offers and portfolios of digital transformation services, using my modelling and simulation expertise. Recently, as program director, I managed Capgemini’s contribution to a large digital transformation program (engineering, manufacturing, and services) at a global aerospace player. Part of our CTO office, I’ve helped shape Capgemini’s vision of the Future of Compute and am now focused on the development of Business for Planet Modeling.

An expert in new sustainability platforms, I help my clients prepare their next steps on energy transition and net zero economy, from strategy to implementation. I work with corporates in all sectors, as well as professional organizations and public authorities, and have delivered many strategy projects based on collaborative approaches and quantitative modeling. I’m proud to have coordinated and delivered innovative reports assessing the implementation of a circular economy , such as RACES, presented at DAVOS 2023, and Low carbon circular economy, with the French Institut National de l’Economie Circulaire, 2022.

Corinne is committed to leading sustainability acceleration. She has led numerous R&D projects in a variety of sectors for many international clients. A pioneer in the practice of design thinking in the industry, she has developed new service offerings and catalysis projects of major innovations that put people and the planet at the heart of developments, in open innovation dynamics. Corinne shares her passion and experience in diverse academic and industrial ecosystems to foster value creation and responsible innovation. Awarded “Innovation woman 2014” by L’Usine Nouvelle.