VINCI

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Vinci has realised a risk map, no evidence that the company has realised a materiality assessment after 2018 could be found in the public domain. The company has some sustainability targets but has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain based on the SBTN Sectoral Materiality Tool. Furthermore, while Vinci provides evidence of linking performance of senior executives’ remuneration policies to criteria which cover nature and social issues, it is unclear if they are linked to objective targets. Moreover, the company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
Vinci does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities nor its process for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond its materiality assessment.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Vinci does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While the company reports sourcing timber from PEFC and FSC, it does not provide the specific standard they are abiding by. The company also has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. However, the company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion and discloses some activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. It also discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers and beyond its direct impacts but has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to restore ecosystems.

Resource exploitation and circularity
Vinci does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has an opportunity to disclose discloses activities to improve soil health as well as 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. Vinci has a strong opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company also does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Vinci does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality nor does it regularly report on water pollution. The company has a strong opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution as well as a commitment to respect the right to water. Furthermore, 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
Vinci is reducing the production of hazardous waste but does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
Vinci has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against it. The company’s targets are aligned with a well below 2°C scenario. While the company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions, it does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Vinci 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
Vinci has an opportunity to 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 process(es) for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. The company describes its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. While the company discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. The company provides minimum wages to its workers, which is set by the national law where it operates. However, the company does not describe whether the wage is sufficient to maintain a decent standard of living. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. While the company states that it expects its suppliers to pay wages that are sufficient for workers and their families to fulfil their basic needs, it has an opportunity to disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. The company discloses the percentage of employees covered by agreements signed outside France in 2021: 19.4%, however, it does not disclose the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to those.

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