PRESERVE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
VINCI aims to reduce its impacts on natural environments by aligning its businesses on long-term ecological challenges. The Group is accelerating the rollout of its ecological engineering expertise across all its businesses, to ensure that they can give more consideration to biodiversity and natural environments in all their operations and for projects of any size. To protect water resources, VINCI addresses needs at the local level and promotes innovative hydraulic infrastructure and water treatment processes. Governance, the sharing of best practices, and partnerships with ecological institutions and organisations are being improved to contribute to the Group’s progress. As part of some projects carried out for their customers, its companies are also developing comprehensive ecological engineering solutions and alternative versions that are better for natural environments.
In 2020, VINCI joined the act4nature international initiative, reiterating its commitments to preserve biodiversity.
DEVELOP ENVIRONMENTALLY VALUABLE SOLUTIONS
Group companies are developing solutions to help their customers reduce their own footprint. These include the Group’s involvement in developing clean hydrogen infrastructure; the low-carbon motorway project deployed by VINCI Autoroutes and its regional partners to accelerate the decarbonisation of mobility; the Granulat+ programme from the Road France Division of VINCI Construction, to increase the percentage of recycled materials used; VINCI Construction’s commitment to use low-carbon concretes meeting Exegy® technical standards at its sites; the energy performance and emissions reduction solutions developed by VINCI Energies together with its customers; and VINCI Airports’ system to adjust airport landing fees based on the carbon footprint of aircraft.
As part of its new environmental ambition, VINCI is stepping up the development of offers combining economic and environmental value by integrating this concept as the focus of the work led by its innovation centres – especially research by the Leonard platform (see page 17).
VINCI also contributes to developing and disseminating scientific knowledge around the ecological transition and how it affects its businesses through the VINCI-ParisTech lab recherche environnement, which supports this approach by fostering interaction between research and applications at the operational level.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS AMBITION FOR 2030
Aim to achieve ZERO NET LOSS of biodiversity.
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act4nature international COMMITMENTS.
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NO net land take for VINCI Immobilier in France.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS PERFORMANCE IN 2022
77% reduction in the consumption of phytosanitary products at concessions between 2018 and 2022.
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41 airports within VINCI Airports use no phytosanitary products.
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6% of soil-sealed land due to VINCI Immobilier operations in France in 2022.
€5.5 billion in projects awarded environmental certifications and labels in 2022.
VINCI’s 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.
ENHANCE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER AWARENESS
2022 saw the continued operational rollout of the winning initiatives from the Environment Awards. The first edition of this major competition was aimed at singling out environmental actions of employees on the ground, and promoting and disseminating them more widely within the Group. It garnered strong participation in 2021, with nearly 200 initiatives selected in the first round held regionally around the world, and 14 won awards in the final round held on 5 November 2021.
Employees’ engagement to accelerate the environmental transformation of businesses, products and services was also stimulated by the third Environment Day – centred around the theme “amplifying environmental actions” – and by the training programmes introduced throughout the Group and its entities.
VINCI companies also work to raise the awareness of their customers. Initiatives include campaigns led annually by concession companies to encourage users to sort their waste at motorway rest areas and in airports, and more broadly to adopt more eco-responsible behaviour.