For a new alliance between companies and regions

Businesses and local authorities join forces to anchor the future at the heart of our territories

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Today, companies and local authorities are on the front line in the face of the major challenges to which our society and economy are already exposed. Our local authorities, whose capacity for budgetary action is increasingly constrained, will have to make massive investments to adapt. They have a pressing need for the companies based in their territories to contribute actively to solving these challenges. The stakes are also high for our companies, whose prosperity is intimately linked to the health of their local environment. 

Many companies are already leading the way, increasingly stepping outside their traditional areas of expertise to make a concrete commitment to their local communities. 

Accelerating this collective momentum towards a just territorial transition must therefore be a priority. It requires the emergence of a renewed framework that aligns economic development with territorial impact. 

Impact France's work over the past few months has pursued this objective. This work, the fruit of consultations with several hundred local entrepreneurs and business leaders, elected representatives and experts, has identified a number of levers for accelerating action by all the players involved. 

The report was unveiled in a very special setting: the very first edition of theUniversité des Territoires de Demain. Co-organized with seven associations of elected representatives and local players, this first-of-its-kind event brings together local decision-makers and reflects a strategic priority of the Impact France Movement: to establish a sustainable presence throughout France.

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4 recommendations to stimulate local development for the common good

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1. Develop local economic policies with a positive impact: using clear, shared economic, ecological and social objectives and indicators to support business transformation and innovations that help reduce negative externalities with major costs for communities.

2. Supporting our companies' order books: by revolutionizing public procurement through greater integration of quality and proximity criteria in the awarding of contracts, to reinforce its leverage effect in the service of our companies and regions.

3. Investing in the solutions and industries of the future: by supporting local authorities in the deployment and development of impact businesses throughout the country, by creating an equity guarantee mechanism.
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4. ‍Creatingsustainable, shared value: by supporting the widespread use of the territorial dividend, enabling the development of ecological and social actions essential to the shared resilience of our territories and businesses.
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"This report is an urgent invitation to anchor the future at the very heart of the construction of our territories. It presents four concrete recommendations, new solutions for changing the way we operate sustainably and structuring a powerful new alliance between companies and territories, enabling us to build an economy that serves the major challenges of today's and tomorrow's world." Matthias Navarro, CEO of Redman and Director of Mouvement Impact France in charge of Territorial Relations