2025-2026 Integrated Report: Reconciling sustainable development and performance
Article summary
This year marks a decisive milestone with the launch of our new futuREady strategic plan. The plan articulates our key themes (competitiveness, technology, and human capital) and places our sustainable development commitments at the heart of our industrial performance. As our 2025-2026 Integrated Report shows: We are futuREady.
“Renault Group is choosing strategic continuity. At a time when the ESG sphere is facing growing pressure on costs and ideological stances, we are standing firm on the commitments we made four years ago. We confirm our ambition to reach Net Zero carbon emissions in Europe by 2040 and worldwide by 2050.”
Staying the course for 2030 in the face of global complexities
In a complex environment, marked by increased regulations and fierce competition, Renault Group has proven its resilience. For us, economic success and social responsibility are the two inseparable levers of sustainable performance. Rigorous control of our fundamentals and continuous discipline in execution allow us to ensure daily operational excellence.
The energy transition remains a flagship challenge to which we are still fully committed. In the short term, we intend to accelerate the electrification of use cases by offering a 100% electrified range, half of which will be fully electric. Beyond accelerating electrification, we are acting on upstream and downstream drivers of sustainable value creation: pursuing eco-design and the circular economy to secure our resources; reducing the carbon footprint of sourced materials and battery production; mobilizing our suppliers around our responsible sourcing standards; continuously improving the energy efficiency of our plants; offering reconditioned or reused parts; and managing the end-of-life of our vehicles and their batteries.
To support these efforts, we are tackling three major challenges: reconciling environmental commitment and competitiveness; finding the right balance between technology and the human element; and bringing transformation and inclusion together.
Sustainable development is a discipline of continuous improvement. With futuREady, our course remains unchanged: to provide solid, credible, and measurable environmental performance that protects the company and strengthens our competitiveness.
Transition & Competitiveness
“The ambition of contributing to carbon neutrality cannot and must not stand in opposition to competitiveness. At Renault Group, climate is no longer a matter for experts: it now involves all of our business lines.”
Decarbonization and performance are not contradictory. Through our “Green as a business” strategy, we demonstrate our ability to invest in the energy transition and the circular economy while maintaining our competitiveness.
The challenge lies in achieving affordable and profitable electrification in the face of aggressive global competition – a challenge taken up by Renault and Dacia. As such, the Clio 6, with 34.2% of materials sourced from the circular economy, and the Dacia Duster, which integrates Starkle® recycled material, illustrate this circular industry in action. Finally, we are turning our waste into resources in Douai (France) and Palencia (Spain) by recycling aluminum offcuts to reinject them into production.
For us, circularity is a lever for industrial sovereignty.
Technology & People
“Our strategy is based on mastering key technologies (electrification, software, and AI) to ensure our technological independence and bolster our competitiveness.”
We integrate technological advances into the heart of our value chain to make progress accessible. Put at the service of people, innovation contributes to the user experience, safety, and comfort of users.
Accordingly, through the human first program, we are developing a societal approach to safety to act on the actual causes of accidents. In 2025, our technologies already cover 52% of these causes, and we aim to cover 70% by 2030. This high standard is accompanied by a commitment to sharing: in early 2025, we opened our Fireman Access patent to all manufacturers to drastically reduce emergency response times. Furthermore, the Dacia Hipster Concept illustrates our vision of essential electric mobility: 20% lighter than Spring, it aims to halve the carbon footprint over its entire life cycle, compared to the best four-seater electric vehicles* on the market.
*M1 passenger vehicles.
This “caring cars” approach places innovation at the service of people to ensure safe, simple, and accessible mobility for all.
Transformation & Inclusion
“In an automotive market undergoing profound change, our employees constitute our greatest strength. We are placing leadership and people at the heart of our trajectory.”
We are continuing to transform our model with the ambition of leaving no employee behind. The company we are building aims to be a learning, inclusive, and forward-looking organization.
To ensure a just transition, ReKnow University supports the upskilling toward the jobs of the future (AI, electrification, circular economy), with 53,000 people trained in 2025. Our social commitment is also reflected in the OneHealth program, guaranteeing universal access to health and well-being. We are also making gender pay equality a reality with a 0% pay gap. We are thus giving ourselves the means to support the transformations of our environment by placing skills, leadership, and people at the heart of our trajectory.
The mobility of tomorrow will be decarbonized, safe, and inclusive. This is one of our greatest challenges.
