Eiffage

Sustainability strategy and accountability

The company implements the Avoid, Reduce and Offset (ARO) principles on biodiversity targets such as the protection of species.

Impact and dependencies assessment

The company discloses its impact on biodiversity in its own operations. The company assesses its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, in its supply chain. It asses it impacts in the five drivers of biodiversity loss in the downstream activities of its value chain.

Key areas and species

The company has a strategy regarding the conservation of species impacted by its own operations and value chain, aiming for a net-positive impact on threatened species. The company discloses its species strategy toward amphibians, avifauna, nocturnal fauna and large animals.

GHG emissions

The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species

The company discloses any introduction of invasive species resulting from its own operations or value chain.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community area.

Sustainability strategy and accountability

The company does not disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. It also does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. However, it reports consistently against all its targets. The company does not disclose having individuals, teams or committees within the company responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement

Eiffage does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Lobbying

Eiffage does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy. The company does not disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with nature-positive policies. The company does not report (potential) misalignment between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and nature-positive policies.

Impact and dependencies assessment

Although the company discloses its dependence on the ecosystem with three main categories, it is unclear with the methodology and result of the assessment. The company does not disclose any assessment of dependencies on nature of its upstream business relationships.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration

No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Resource exploitation and circularity

No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. Even though the company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices it does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water

No evidence that the company reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company reports a decrease in water pollution. The company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Solid and air pollution

The company is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found and it does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions

No evidence that the company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions was found. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company does not report progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target. No evidence that the company reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target. No evidence that the company’s scope 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.

Invasive species

No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive species in its own operations. No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive species in its value chain.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

The company does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous peoples’ and land rights

The company does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

The company describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. The company describes its processes for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses that it conducts routine human rights risk assessments and that it remediates in locations with the highest risk, no evidence was found that it has a global system to act on all its salient human rights issues. No evidence that the company provides an example of the conclusions reached and actions taken or to be taken on at least one of its salient human rights issues as a result of assessment processes was found. No evidence that the company discloses the categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found. The company engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. No evidence that the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers was found. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. The company has an opportunity to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. The company has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

The company discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. The company takes steps to identify and address bribery and corruption. The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. No evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement or policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach was found. The company specifies that it does not make political contributions.