Additional measures are taken by business lines and subsidiaries, for example:
| Business line |
Examples of supplier assessment |
| VINCI Autoroutes |
VINCI Autoroutes Examples of supplier assessment
- – Due diligence during consultations
- – Supplier audits including sustainability criteria
- – Supplier assessment during performance, using dedicated internal tools, and sharing of results at meetings
- – Collaboration with suppliers on environmental issues (such as products used for road maintenance)
- – Initial and follow-up assessments of selected suppliers in the Cofiroute network (questions incorporating environmental issues).
- – Assessment of environmental suppliers (providing programme management assistance) in 2020
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| VINCI Airports |
VINCI AirportsExamples of supplier assessment
- – Analysis in progress to identify and assess the main social and environmental risks for each purchasing category
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| VINCI Energies |
VINCI Energies Examples of supplier assessment
- – Yearly or half-yearly assessment by each company of their top 10 suppliers and top five subcontractors, using a questionnaire, followed by work with suppliers on their identified areas for improvement
- – Assessment of VINCI Energies suppliers, using the Actradis platform
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| VINCI Construction |
VINCI Construction Examples of supplier assessment
- – New questionnaires for specific purchasing categories developed in 2021 to assess suppliers’ environmental and other commitments. The questionnaires were sent to all suppliers having participated in a tender in 2021, to distinguish the best environmental performers. Improvement action plans were developed jointly with them. Fifty suppliers, representing a purchasing volume of €250 million, received support in this form in 2021, in connection with framework agreements managed by Eurovia’s head office.
- – Assessment of suppliers, subcontractors and partners upon completion of their service using a dedicated internal tool that includes an environmental evaluation (VINCI Construction Terrassement and Dodin Campenon Bernard). In 2021, 284 environmental assessments were performed at VINCI Construction Terrassement.
- – Environmental criteria included in annual assessments of subcontractors and suppliers (Sogea-Satom)
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4.4.3 Tailored actions to mitigate risks and prevent serious impacts
a. Policies and procedures to prevent and mitigate risks in operations
To address the major issues identified for VINCI’s business activities, the Group’s environmental ambition for 2030 has been translated into key targets and action plans in three areas: climate change, the circular economy, and the protection of natural environments. The Group’s entities are implementing this ambition by building road maps that are aligned with their business activities and using environmental management systems.
| Issue |
Commitments |
| Climate change |
Climate change Commitments
- – Reduce the Group’s direct greenhouse gas emissions (Scopes 1 and 2) by 40% by 2030 compared with 2018 levels
- – Reduce indirect emissions (Scope 3) by 20% between 2019 and 2030, taking action across the entire value chain for the Group’s businesses
- – Adapt structures and activities to improve their climate change resilience
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| Resources and the circular economy |
Resources and the circular economy Commitments
- – Promote the use of construction techniques and materials that economise on natural resources
- – Improve waste sorting and recovery
- – Expand the offer of recycled materials to limit extraction of virgin materials
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| Preservation of natural environments |
Preservation of natural environments Commitments
- – Prevent pollution and incidents by systematically implementing an environmental management plan in all businesses
- – Optimise water consumption, especially in areas of water stress
- – Aim to achieve no net loss of biodiversity
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- Environmental management and incident prevention
To achieve its environmental ambition, the Group implements environmental risk prevention management systems at Group entities (see paragraph 3.1.1.2, “Turning risk management into opportunity,” page 205), which also cover their worksites and sites under operation. For example, VINCI Immobilier applies its own clean worksite charter that enumerates obligations for all companies operating at the worksite, to monitor and reduce nuisances and environmental impacts.
Several initiatives have been taken by VINCI Construction entities in addition to obtaining ISO 14001 certification.
- – For example, Sogea-Satom develops and implements an environmental management plan for each project. The plan lays out the procedures to follow in the event of a pollution incident and includes the monitoring of environmental near misses.
- – Another entity, Soletanche Freyssinet, reports environmental incidents using an internal solution, BeSafe, which features an alert system and tracks corrective action.
- – VINCI Construction Grands Projets has set up a process to monitor health and safety and environmental incidents and accidents, which defines four impact or nuisance levels (minor, significant, very significant, major).
- – Eurovia developed Notify, an application to report environmental incidents at fixed sites and worksites, several years ago. Since 2020, it has used this experience to add a new incident-reporting module called Events to its in-house management solution, E-Cube. In addition to reporting, Events also analyses incidents and suggests measures to reduce their environmental impact.
Various business lines, divisions and subsidiaries also develop internal labels to prevent risks specific to their business activities. In 2021, 31 Eurovia worksites received the in-house Environmental Excellence label, more than 300 VINCI Construction France worksites were certified with the Attitude Environnement label and nine worksites were awarded the new green label created by VINCI Construction Terrassement in 2021 to recognise worksites that have done an exemplary job in protecting the environment.
