Promoting mobility with less impact on the environment
Customer travel to DECATHLON stores and teammate commutes represented 12% of the company’s total CO2 emissions in 2025. DECATHLON aims to reduce retail-related greenhouse gas emissions, while highlighting the health benefits for everyone of active modes of travel.
Therefore, the company is implementing a strategy based on four pillars:
- Facilitating access to DECATHLON sites for teammates and customers via modes of transport that have less impact, to promote sustainable mobility
- Developing alliances with key players in the mobility sector
- Educating customers and teammates about physical activity and sustainable mobility
- Helping other companies reduce their mobility-related emissions by sharing best practices and expertise developed by DECATHLON.
In 2025, 40% of kilometres travelled by teammates during their work commutes involved active mobility or sustainable mobility. This can be explained by the establishment of clearly identified objectives and action plans.
Employees are now aware of, as well as trained in, accessibility to sustainable mobility, and the CO2 impact of sustainable mobility is more widely incorporated into office and store planning decisions (construction of bicycle parks, cycle paths, charging stations, etc.).
Local mobility plans were also put in place in specific countries/regions (Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Italy, Poland, Spain and Taiwan).
For DECATHLON, active travel means: modes of transport that use non-assisted human physical exercise, with the exception of electric assistance.
For DECATHLON, sustainable transport means: modes of transport emitting up to 0.10 kg of CO2 per kilometre, such as electric buses and cars. Cars with a combustion engine and motorcycles are not included in the percentage of sustainable transport.