Environment

Why act now?

Climate urgency

Society awareness

Employees expectations

Investor requests

Environment has always been a major concern at VINCI. A dynamic of acceleration has started, given the scale of the situation. There’s indeed an urgency to act for environment: global warming, repeated flooding, causing a general society awareness. There’s also a clear acceleration of the expectations from our own employees and from the external third parties like investors on environmental issues. We therefore have to act individually and collectively.

We are part of the problem but we are also part of the solution

Xavier Huillard CEO VINCI

VINCI’s environmental ambition

VINCI has made a strong environmental commitment:
develop solutions that contribute to improve the living environment while managing and reducing the impact of its activities in 3 key areas:

Act for the climate

Reduction of CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, resilience of structures, etc.

Optimise resources thanks to circulate economy

Sorting and recovery of waste, recycled materials, etc.

Preserve natural environment

Biodiversity, water, air, soil.

At the end of 2019, VINCI Energies made these commitments to reduce its environmental impact. First, to reduce by 40% direct greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 and 2) by 2030 compared to 2018. Secondly to recycle 80% of our inert waste and 100% of our hazardous waste. And thirdly to optimise the use of water.

To have a global strategy for our carbon footprint, assessing, analysing and reducing all scopes is necessary. That is why VINCI Energies is now focusing on indirect GHG emissions (scope 3).

Each employee, at every level of the company, is in a position to adapt the roadmap to their particular challenges and priorities.

Isabelle Spiegel Global Head of Environment, VINCI

Achieving the energy transition

At Omexom, the brand dedicated to the energy transition, environment has always been at the heart of our concerns. Omexom’s aim is to:

Reduce CO₂ emissions
Preserve biodiversity
Control waste management
Harness energy performance contracts
Focus on renewable energy

Omexom is upgrading existing offers by using low-carbon processes and recycled materials that preserve the environment and, at the same time, is launching new low-carbon solutions such as low carbon mobility, local energy grid, using renewable energy, storage, etc…