French Corporate Carbon Reports — BEGES (ADEME)

What it does

This Actor searches the official ADEME register of French regulatory greenhouse-gas reports (BEGES — Bilan des Émissions de Gaz à Effet de Serre). French companies with more than 500 employees, plus public bodies and local authorities, are legally required to publish their GHG emissions; this Actor makes that register queryable by company name, SIREN or SIRET.

For each report you get scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions in tCO2e (computed by summing the official BEGES publication categories), the reporting year, employee count, methodology, consolidation mode, 2030 reduction target and the declared contact. Useful for ESG and CSRD research, supplier carbon screening, decarbonation prospecting and academic analysis of French corporate emissions.

Data comes from the ADEME open-data API (~11 500 reports) — an official source, not an HTML scraper.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
queries	array of strings	yes	One search per entry. 9 digits → SIREN, 14 digits → SIRET, otherwise full-text on company name.
reportingYear	integer	no	Keep only reports for this reporting year (e.g. 2021). Empty = all years.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	no	Max reports per query, 1–1000. Default 50.

Output

One dataset item per published report. Every item carries a status field: found, not_found or error.

{
  "query": "SNCF",
  "matchedBy": "text",
  "status": "found",
  "companyName": "SNCF Gares & Connexions",
  "siren": "507523801",
  "siret": null,
  "reportingYear": 2021,
  "publicationDate": "2023-01-10",
  "structureType": "Entreprise",
  "activityLabel": "Transport ferroviaire interurbain de voyageurs",
  "nafCode": "49.10Z",
  "employees": 4200,
  "department": "Seine-Saint-Denis",
  "region": "Île-de-France",
  "scope1TCo2e": 21112.974,
  "scope2TCo2e": 9503.519,
  "scope3TCo2e": 454647.5,
  "totalTCo2e": 485264.0,
  "methodology": "v4",
  "consolidationMode": "Opérationnel",
  "isObligedEntity": true,
  "reductionTarget2030": null,
  "contactEmail": null,
  "source": "ADEME - Bilans GES (BEGES) reglementaires - open data"
}

Use cases

• ESG / CSRD research: pull the official published emissions of a French company or a portfolio of companies.
• Supplier carbon screening: check whether a supplier reports its emissions and at what magnitude, by SIREN.
• Decarbonation prospecting: find high-emitting organisations in a region or sector that have no 2030 reduction target.
• Benchmarking: compare scope 1/2/3 across companies of the same NAF sector and reporting year.

Limitations & fair use

• Scopes are derived: scope1 sums the BEGES categories 1.x, scope2 the 2.x, and scope3 the 3.x–6.x. Organisations that reported under different methodology versions (v4 vs v5) are not always strictly comparable.
• A field left empty by the declarant stays null — it does not mean zero emissions. Only reported categories are summed.
• The same organisation appears once per reporting year, so several rows per company are normal.
• Coverage is limited to entities subject to the obligation (or voluntary declarants); a company absent from the register is not necessarily non-compliant.
• The declarant's contact fields (contactEmail, contactPhone, contactRole) are masked at source by ADEME for most records; they are returned as null rather than the literal placeholder.
• Source: ADEME open data, Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab). Attribution to ADEME is expected on redistribution.

Pricing

This Actor is free. You only pay your own Apify platform consumption (compute units), typically a fraction of a cent per run.

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