#5 Rahel Damamme (Decathlon): From Legislation to Business Practice

Listen to Rahel Damamme, ESG and Sustainability Reporting Leader at Decathlon, one of the world's largest sports good retailer.

This week on Frankly Speaking, we’ll be talking sports goods, value chains and sustainability standards. Rahel Damamme, ESG and Sustainability Reporting Leader at Decathlon, one of the world's largest sports good retailer with over 2000 stores in 60 countries, shares her experiences on how reporting and due diligence legislation has helped the company move ahead, how to change things from within a company, and about her efforts in Long Covid Association France. Listen in!

Topics:

How reporting legislation helped Decathlon to formalize processes, better structure, integrate and reflect on their actions
On the importance of double materiality assessment, how to go about it, and why in 2022 companies cannot focus only on what is financially material to them
How working with science-based targets was a big lesson for Decathlon, it made them reconsider their ambitions, prepared them for the upcoming legislation requirements
Expectations towards the proposed EU due diligence legislation
On the importance of a holistic approach towards sustainability issues and how her experiences as a sustainability officer helped her in her efforts in Long Covid Association France
how to change things from within a company

Listen in!

“All the signals of our beloved earth are deep red. I don´t understand how in 2022 you can question double materiality and lose precious time. We know that the window to act is really short and for me, it's so outdated to only focus on financial materiality. So, I am happy the EU is supporting the double materiality principle, because we have to position Europe as a frontrunner on those topics.”

Rahel Damamme in Frankly Speaking