2024 Integrated Report

Strategy

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

As a signatory to the UN Global Compact, the Bouygues group has pledged “to align its operations and strategies with 10 principles, based on the fundamental texts of the United Nations, in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption^a.”

Bouygues’ contribution to the attainment of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses mainly on those listed below.

CONTRIBUTION TO SDGs	EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES FOR THE SDGs
Respect	Respect EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES FOR THE SDGs Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all employees and workers at our sites (see p. 34-35) Ensuring a common core of employee benefits outside France through the BYCare programme (see p. 34-35) Training employees, supporting learning and promoting occupational integration (see p. 34-35) Increasing women’s representation in the company (see p. 34-35) Encouraging diversity and inclusion (see p. 34-35) Maintaining high-quality labour relations through employee representative bodies (see p. 34-35) Reasserting the importance of ethics and compliance, as two key pillars of the strategy of the Group and its business segments (see p. 12-13) Rolling out the Human Rights policy (see p. 33)
Climate	Climate EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES FOR THE SDGs Rolling out business segment-specific decarbonisation plans in pursuit of the SBTi-endorsed GHG emissions-reduction targets for 2030 (see business segment strategies on p. 41-55) Offering low-carbon and climate adaptation solutions to our business segments’ customers (see business segment strategies on p. 41-55) Developing climate change-resilient neighbourhoods and rolling out naturebased solutions (see p. 46) Building renewable energy infrastructure and offering energy optimisation solutions (see p. 48) Helping to raise public awareness about the green transition using scientific arguments (see p. 54) Reducing the environmental footprint of digital technology (see p. 52)
Resources	Resources EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES FOR THE SDGs Contributing to the protection of biodiversity, especially in the construction businesses (see p. 40-47) Reducing pressure on non-renewable resources and promoting the reuse of materials (see p. 40-47) Implementing policies to incentivise suppliers to reduce their environmental footprints (see p. 36) Applying the Group’s purchasing requirements as defined in the CSR Charter for Suppliers and Subcontractors (see p. 36) Preventing and mitigating the main risks to human rights, and to the health and safety of human beings and the environment, in the Group’s purchasing policy (see p. 36)
Progress	Progress EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES FOR THE SDGs Making life better every day for as many people as possible for the common good (see p. 21) Addressing essential needs such as for housing, transportation, low-carbon energy, communication, news and entertainment (see p. 21) Rolling out innovative, sustainable solutions (see p. 21)

(a) https://unglobalcompact.org/