Duration: 28:13
PART 1 — Analytical Summary 🚀
Title: Towards Carbon Neutrality with Odoo: A Practical Guide for Odoo Customers and Partners
Speaker: Gabriel Morice (ex-Odoo, now sustainability and growth consultant)
Event: Odoo Experience 2025
🧠 Context — who, what, why it matters
Gabriel Morice closes Odoo Experience 2025 with a practical blueprint for companies aiming at carbon neutrality using the Odoo ecosystem. He grounds the urgency in current realities—2024 was the warmest year on record (NASA), and overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit would magnify extreme weather risks now evident worldwide. Beyond ethics, he frames decarbonization as business strategy: regulations are accelerating (e.g., EU CSRD), customers will increasingly demand emissions data, and credible studies show corporate decarbonization can enhance financial performance, operational efficiency, and brand equity. The core challenge: sustainability is fragmented (600+ guidelines), leaving teams unsure where to start. The solution: a clear climate strategy and integrated execution—now possible inside Odoo.
💼 Core ideas & innovations — from strategy to execution in Odoo
The journey begins by crafting a climate strategy tailored to your organization’s type (public/private/NGO/financial), size (SMB vs. enterprise), location (regulatory context), sector (use sectoral guidance like SBTi’s ICT pathway), and stakeholder expectations (clients, investors, governments, community). With strategy in place, companies calculate their carbon footprint under the GHG Protocol across Scope 1 (direct), Scope 2 (electricity), and Scope 3 (value chain). Scope 3 implies new data exchanges: your suppliers and customers will increasingly request emissions data to complete their inventories.
This is where the newly released Odoo ESG app (v19) changes the game. It centralizes sustainability data collection, measurement, and action inside the ERP you already use. Instead of spreadsheet sprawl, teams can ingest operational data from Odoo modules, enrich where needed, and compute a comprehensive footprint. From there, they can design a reduction plan (managed much like the Odoo Project app), set targets and commitments (e.g., SBTi, SME Climate Hub, Race to Zero, B Corp), and generate compliant reports including CSRD and GRI—all within Odoo. A real-world example from the ecosystem: Kubic Group (an Odoo partner active in Spain/Portugal and beyond) defined a climate strategy, measured its footprint, pursued reductions, offset residual emissions, and reached operational carbon neutrality—publishing its sustainability report as a model for peers.
⚙️ Offsetting with integrity — reduce first, then compensate
Not all emissions are immediately reducible. The recommended sequence is: calculate → reduce → offset residuals. When compensating, choose high-impact, verifiable projects with strong environmental and social co-benefits—especially initiatives empowering small farmers and traditional communities to regenerate landscapes. Market trends are clear: stricter regulation, rising disclosure expectations, and heightened demands for traceability. Technology (including Odoo ESG) can strengthen transparency and integrate offsets and impacts into reporting like CSRD.
💬 Impact & takeaways — what’s improved, automated, or simplified
Morice’s guide turns a complex landscape into an executable plan, embedded in daily operations:
- The Odoo ESG app unifies data, calculations, action plans, and reporting—reducing manual work and spreadsheet risk.
- It prepares companies for coming requests from customers and regulators, improving auditability and compliance readiness.
- It aligns sustainability with business outcomes: cost savings, operational efficiency, competitive positioning, and brand trust.
- It enables partners and customers in the Odoo ecosystem to lead by example in tech’s decarbonization journey.
What to do next:
- Build your climate strategy around org type, size, location, sector, and stakeholders.
- Use Odoo ESG (v19) to perform a GHG Protocol footprint (Scopes 1–3), then launch a data-driven reduction plan.
- Commit (e.g., SBTi) and report (e.g., CSRD/GRI) directly from Odoo.
- Offset only the unavoidable remainder—prioritizing high-integrity, transparent projects—and document it in your Odoo reporting.
The message is pragmatic and empowering: Odoo customers and partners can operationalize carbon neutrality without leaving their ERP, turning sustainability into an integrated, measurable, and continuous improvement cycle. 🌍
PART 2 — Viewpoint: Odoo Perspective
Disclaimer: AI-generated creative perspective inspired by Odoo's vision.
At Odoo, our mission has always been to simplify the complex and put powerful tools in the hands of every company. Sustainability is no different. By embedding ESG capabilities directly into Odoo, we remove barriers—no more disconnected spreadsheets, no more guessing. Just one integrated system where teams can measure, act, and report.
The real win is cultural: when sustainability becomes operational, it stops being a side project. Our community can share best practices, factors, and templates across sectors, making decarbonization faster and more accessible. This is how we scale impact—through simplicity, integration, and openness.
PART 3 — Viewpoint: Competitors (SAP / Microsoft / Others)
Disclaimer: AI-generated fictional commentary. Not an official corporate statement.
Odoo’s ESG app is a smart move for the SMB and mid-market. Embedding carbon accounting and CSRD reporting within a familiar ERP UX lowers adoption friction and accelerates data collection. It’s good for organizations taking their first rigorous steps—especially those graduating from spreadsheets.
For large, regulated enterprises, the bar is higher: assurance-ready data lineage, segregation of duties, granular controls, multi-entity consolidation, scenario modeling, and deep industry content (e.g., product-level footprints, supplier engagement at scale). Integration with hyperscaler sustainability solutions and audit ecosystems remains critical. Odoo’s usability is a strength; the challenge will be matching enterprise controls, global compliance depth, and verification workflows. Still, democratizing ESG is valuable—and competition here will elevate the entire market.
Disclaimer: This article contains AI-generated summaries and fictionalized commentaries for illustrative purposes. Viewpoints labeled as "Odoo Perspective" or "Competitors" are simulated and do not represent any real statements or positions. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.