VINCI Immobilier is the first nationwide property developer to make a “no net land take” commitment, ahead by more than 20 years on the target set by France’s Climate and Resilience Law. By 2030, each square metre of soil sealed will be offset by unsealing one square metre on another project. Consequently, VINCI Immobilier prioritises operations on soil that has already been sealed and no longer undertakes any project in which the number of square metres of land take exceeds the floor area built. In 2025, “no net land take” and urban land recycling data were incorporated into the management control system. These environmental indicators are now monitored via the dashboard presented to the Group’s Executive Management each quarter.
Initiatives adapted to local environmental issues and project duration are implemented at sites operated by the Group as well as worksites. These actions are based on the four main commitments to the act4nature international initiative indicated above.
A governance approach for biodiversity preservation has been in place for several years to coordinate the Group’s commitments (see paragraph 1.2.1, “ESG governance”, page 194). A Biodiversity Task Force, comprised of about 90 ecology experts and environment managers from VINCI’s different activities, meets three times a year. It is responsible for monitoring the regulatory environment, developing scientific expertise, analysing risks, promoting initiatives and sharing best practices.
Knowledge is critical for choosing effective initiatives that are best adapted to the context. With the right information, VINCI can systematically and accurately anticipate, measure and manage environmental impacts, including over the long term, while leveraging tools and techniques to preserve biodiversity. Building knowledge also means sharing expertise among scientists, environmental organisations and experts to create synergy and optimise biodiversity conservation, especially near sensitive areas. VINCI takes a range of actions to strengthen knowledge and preserve biodiversity, described below.
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| Actions to improve knowledge Integrate biodiversity into employee awareness-raising programmes and top management training courses |
| Actions to improve knowledge Increase the number of local partnerships |
| Actions to improve knowledge Monitor the measures implemented for consultation with stakeholders |
| Actions to improve knowledge Continue to deploy status indicators that take ecosystem functionality into account |
| Actions to improve knowledge Increase the volume of fauna/flora inventory data in the public domain |
| Actions to improve knowledge Continue research work |
Employee awareness and training actions, particularly in relation to biodiversity, are described in paragraph 2.1.2.2, “Training and awareness”, page 207.
As Group businesses operate locally over long periods, a number of educational initiatives are implemented to support regional actors.
Group entities have for many years developed strong partnerships with non-profits or research centres to support natural environments (more than 1,000 agreements, of which 600 were voluntary, were signed or in effect in 2025). VINCI Autoroutes has joined forces with national partners in France, such as the Bird Protection League (LPO), the French National Forest Office (ONF), Permanent Centres for Environmental Initiatives (CPIE) and Regional Houses of Environment and Solidarity.
Since the creation of the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation’s biodiversity mission in June 2022, these partnerships have grown to include natural environment restoration projects. Projects supported by the foundation must not be for profit or related to the company’s business. They must be located in an administrative department covered by the VINCI Autoroutes network, but not on motorway property.
By 31 December 2025, 109 projects had been supported since the foundation’s launch. Projects are submitted by stakeholders that join forces with VINCI Autoroutes to take action, including non-profits, local authorities, wildlife care centres, river protection associations and the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB).
Along with their institutional partnerships, VINCI companies engage in continuous dialogue with stakeholders. They strengthen communication with residents living near worksites and infrastructure in operation, through information meetings, improved signposting, worksite visits and other communication channels. As part of its work to reduce noise pollution for local residents, VINCI Airports publishes information on flight paths and the results measured by its noise monitoring systems online. Local residents can also report incidents directly on these visualisation platforms. In addition, websites were developed for VINCI Construction’s road and urban development worksites, to communicate more easily with people living near many of its worksites in France.
VINCI Construction has developed a method to map and analyse the natural zoning of quarry sites, based on an ecological quality indicator (IQE) designed by France’s National Museum of Natural History. Using this method, VINCI Construction can assess issues involving flora and fauna and design specific measures to conserve existing species and welcome new ones. Since 2012, the method has been tested on some 40 quarries in France. The Major Projects Division is part of a collaborative corporate project, Myotis, to define a standard measure of biodiversity performance that can be applied to major construction projects, from the design phase all the way to operation.
