2024 Universal Registration Document

VINCI Autoroutes and VINCI Concessions have committed to eliminating the use of phytosanitary products in the maintenance of infrastructure under concession by 2030, except where required by regulations. At VINCI Autoroutes, consumption of these products has fallen by more than 99% since 2008 and they are now only used in areas with extremely limited accessibility or to treat certain invasive plant species. In 2024, 57 out of 59 airports in the consolidated scope of VINCI Airports met the zero phytosanitary products target, i.e. eight more than in 2023. A reduction of just over 71% in the use of phytosanitary products (in litres) occurred between 2018 and 2024 for the Concessions business as a whole.

For information on light and noise pollution, see paragraph 2.4, “Preserving natural environments – Pollution (ESRS E2)”, page 225.

Invasive alien species (IAS) factor

VINCI Construction has introduced IAS management plans at all its worksites and most of its quarries in France, and plans to train all workers on fixed sites in France about IAS by 2030.

VINCI Autoroutes has created a map of IAS locations across its network and is working with ecology laboratories to find better solutions for managing them. VINCI Concessions occasionally introduces control measures when locations are identified on certain assets.

Actions to develop our capacity to restore natural environments and support our customers

In addition to Group actions taken to reduce pressure on biodiversity, VINCI may be required to carry out ecological compensation operations, which take different forms depending on the role of VINCI entities in the projects.

Regulatory ecological offsetting

When acting as programme managers, some VINCI entities, such as those in the Concessions business, can take responsibility for introducing offsets when the major impacts of a project could not be avoided or sufficiently mitigated. For many years, entities in the Concessions business have been adapting offsets to local requirements and monitoring ecological performance.

In the Cofiroute network (VINCI Autoroutes), as part of the compensation measures taken for the Porte de Gesvres reconfiguration in Nantes, more than 260,000 native plants and trees were planted along the northern and eastern ring roads and along the A11 motorway. Several measures to protect avifauna were also taken: a total of 15 hectares of wooded area and 3,000 sq. metres of wetlands were restored, offsetting by more than 200% the area of the wetlands impacted by the project.

VINCI Concessions also spearheads many offset initiatives. LISEA has initiated a large-scale environmental mitigation programme in the region crossed by the South Europe Atlantic high-speed rail line (SEA HSL), more specifically to protect 223 species and implement 3,800 hectares of environmental and forest mitigation measures across 330 sites along the line (30% were acquired by LISEA and transferred to conservatories of natural areas, and 70% come under agreements with farmers or landowners).

At quarries operated by VINCI Construction, offsets are also implemented in situ or ex situ, in the manner determined with government agencies and local nature conservation partners.

In its designer-builder role, VINCI Construction may be mandated by its customers to implement offsets at worksites.

For the Green Aggregates plant expansion by VINCI Construction UK, ecological mitigation and compensation measures were proposed for the expansion area as well as the ecological buffer zone. The aim is to create a mosaic of richly flowered open habitats and patches of bare ground, favoured by invertebrates. A long-term ecological landscape management plan defines the measures required to maintain the mosaic throughout the life of the project. The positive impact of the ecological design is clear, with a net gain of 5.6% in units of habitat designed specifically for the mix of inverterbrates at the site, which uses the official Natural England biodiversity metric.

Voluntary offsets (restoration of natural environments, reforestation)

Several VINCI companies implement voluntary offsets to contribute to the reforestation of degraded lands to benefit local populations. Experts support these initiatives to ensure that projects meet high environmental and social standards.

In 2024, VINCI Airports continued to invest in reforestation programmes recognised by the French certification standard, Label Bas Carbone (see under “Carbon offsetting projects” in paragraph 2.2.2.1, “Climate change mitigation and energy”, page 213).

VINCI Construction also developed its offsetting efforts in 2024. For instance, 1,000 tree species were planted on a hill in the Santiago metropolitan area, in Chile, as part of a reforestation project.

Through its partnership with France’s National Forest Office, VINCI Autoroutes worked with the quarry operator Kleber Moreau in 2024 to rehabilitate the 3.3 hectares of a former rest area on the A83 motorway, located in Sainte Hermine (Vendée) and create an offsetting wooded area. This rest area was closed in 2009. The same year, the buildings on the land were demolished and soil remediation was performed.