2024 Integrated Report

How is the Group progressing in terms of its environmental policy?

Our business segments are building up the skills and expertise needed to incorporate the various components of our environmental policy into our business models. We can no longer simply tackle negative externalities one by one. On the contrary, our efforts must address all of the Group’s material issues, such as the climate, biodiversity and natural resources.

What does this mean in practice?

To take one example, we are making rapid progress in conducting lifecycle assessments (LCAs) for our products and solutions. This method is now applied across all business segments: Bouygues Telecom uses it to design its routers, Bouygues Construction and Colas to assess the impact of infrastructure, and TF1 when developing its TV dramas.

This multi-criteria approach gives us a clearer picture of the trade-offs we need to make to keep our environmental impact to a minimum. In addition, we support our customers in their own net zero journeys by implementing circularity measures, restoring carbon sinks and biodiversity – see our Rejeneo initiative – and marketing decarbonisation-focused products and services such as Equans’ Carbon Shift offer and Bouygues Construction’s Archisobre solution.

How is the Group’s decarbonisation drive shaping up?

We are currently rolling out ambitious action plans – aligned with the IPCC’s^a science-based recommendations and the Paris Agreement targets – across all our business segments and subsidiaries.

These plans are documented and backed by investment and precise metrics, as required by the CSRD^b and in line with our SBTi-endorsed targets^c. We know that the products we source from our partners are a major component of our carbon footprint. That’s why we are engaged in intense dialogue with our suppliers, with a view to jointly developing effective decarbonisation and circularity solutions. We also want to help our customers make headway with their own climate strategies, in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. This is one of the reasons why we are working on a robust method for calculating avoided greenhouse gas emissions.

Helping to achieve the net-zero goal by 2050 also means building long-term thinking into our approach. One way we are doing that is by reviewing our portfolio of products and services. On this front, we are working hard to persuade our customers and suppliers to embrace innovations such as nature-based solutions, which balance the competing imperatives of business performance and environmental responsibility.

We still have some way to go, but momentum is building and employees across all business segments are working diligently on solutions that will allow the Group to honour its commitments.