Environment
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
VINCI's environmental policy
VINCI’s policy is to address the environmental aspects of its operations at all levels.
In addition to complying with regulations and anticipat-ing regulatory changes, the Group’s companies consider the environmental challenge to be a real and expanding opportunity for business development.
R&D efforts focus heavily on improving the environmental performance of everyday life, infrastructure and mobility.
VINCI’s environmental strategy has two major thrusts:
· preserving natural resources by understanding and limiting environmental impacts, preventing pollution and preserving biodiversity and nature for future generations. Environmental criteria are addressed during pre-project risk analyses ;
· fighting climate change by systematically adopting an eco-design approach that takes into account the full life cycle of products and services to better limit their environmental impact throughout the value chain, and by designing and proposing a green offer. This approach, which had its origins in the construction industry, is making inroads into civil engineering, transport infrastructure, mobility, and the development of eco-neighbourhoods and more extensive eco-areas.
VINCI companies work closely with local environmental protection organisations to involve them at the earliest possible stage of new projects.
These organisations sometimes assist in raising environmental awareness, training employees at worksites and providing environmental support and monitoring.