VINCI’s Environment Department and Leonard — the Group’s innovation and foresight platform, which supports innovative projects and monitors key trends in the energy, urban and digital transitions — continued to participate in a working group dedicated to land recycling. Its members combine several areas of in-house expertise to build a robust, integrated approach to land recycling for the benefit of regions.
Since 2022, VINCI Immobilier has measured land take before and after each project and declined to pursue any project in which the extent of land take exceeds the floor area built. In 2023, the approach was enhanced with notifications sent to the commitment committee whenever a project exceeds certain land take thresholds. Progress toward VINCI’s “no net land take” and land recycling goals was tracked more closely in 2025 by incorporating these indicators into management control tools, such as the quarterly dashboards presented to the Group’s Executive Management.
Experts participating in the think tank La Fabrique de la Cité, initiated by the VINCI Group, explore the city of the future and the related issues of land rehabilitation and repurposing in urban areas.
In France, most of the linear infrastructure built by the Group dates from before the law of 1976 introducing environmental impact assessment requirements was enacted. Today, operators of existing linear infrastructure concessions are taking initiatives to reduce this impact, including the extensive management of natural land, actions to make infrastructure more permeable to fauna and restore ecological continuity (wildlife overpasses, tunnels, modifications to hydraulic structures, sustainable roadside grass mowing, etc.) and reducing pressures brought by new projects. Concession companies include biodiversity preservation standards in their works contracts. Through the extensive management of green spaces along the motorway network in France, they can observe natural changes to the environment and the adjacent landscape and take steps to further reduce their impact on people’s health and on nature.
An environmental rehabilitation programme begun in 2010 and completed in 2024 enabled the construction of 203 structures to enhance their ecological transparency for wildlife: overpasses (wildlife crossings over 15 metres in width, including structures for small and large animals that reproduce in the restored habitats), tunnels, benches and ledges for hydraulic structures, fish passages and one bat gantry. The programme specifically targeted structures created alongside modifications to existing infrastructure.
To implement the commitments made in the Buckingham Declaration, signed in May 2023, airports in the VINCI Airports network continued to roll out programmes in 2025 to fight wildlife trafficking.
VINCI Construction aims for all of its quarries to have implemented a voluntary biodiversity or water preservation action plan by 2030. Due to a regulatory obligation to rehabilitate their sites, quarries have acquired extensive ecological expertise, especially regarding environment dynamics. During operation, voluntary actions are taken to enable the successful cohabitation of species and quarry activities. For example, work is discontinued in specific areas during nesting periods or elements are added to sites to prevent wildlife from entering quarrying areas (e.g. fences). Some quarries go further, applying ecological engineering to create ponds or rock piles, which provide excellent habitats for animals, and monitoring outcomes over the long term to assess the effectiveness of these measures.
When responding to calls for tender, VINCI Construction companies pinpoint priority environmental issues, apply the avoid, minimise, offset hierarchy and identify measures adapted to the situation of each site.
Actions are taken to consider the potential impacts of a project on biodiversity, for example, by making changes to access, schedules or working methods (modifying worksite access routes to avoid crossing sensitive areas, adapting timetables to species, relocating fish, diverting waterways, fighting invasive alien species, etc.). In Benin, phase 2 of the Route des Pêches worksite (2025) includes a biodiversity management plan with a mapping of sensitive areas, monitoring of fauna and the creation of hatcheries for sea turtles.
An assessment carried out on the Group’s value chain showed that VINCI takes two main resources from natural environments: wood and water.
Wood resources are used in construction activities, especially in building (see paragraph 2.3.2.1, “Promoting the use of construction techniques and materials that economise on natural resources”, page 228). To guarantee wood resource traceability and prevent any risk related to deforestation, VINCI Construction’s Building France Division works with its suppliers to prioritise locally sourced, certified wood. It has set a target to purchase 100% certified wood by 2030. Additional steps were taken in 2025 to achieve this target, such as meeting with labelling and certification organisations and stakeholders (sawmills, suppliers, etc.) and exploring issues related to governance and purchasing procedures. These discussions led to the development of a wood procurement guide, still in progress in 2025, to further support the target. The proportion of certified-origin wood consumed increased in 2025 to 85% (see paragraph 2.6.3, “Performance monitoring”, page 245).
Group entities also use water in their processes. Actions taken to conserve water are presented in paragraph 2.5, “Preserving natural environments – Water (ESRS E3)”, page 235. Other types of resources and their uses are detailed in paragraph 2.3, “Optimising resources thanks to the circular economy (ESRS E5)”, page 227.
Actions to reduce impacts relating to climate change are described in paragraph 2.2, “Acting for the climate (ESRS E1)”, page 208.
