Climate strategy

In response to the climate emergency, the Bouygues group is rolling out a Climate strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over its entire value chain and to help its customers achieve their own decarbonisation targets. 

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TAKE FIRM ACTION to reduce our carbon footprint and offer more virtuous products and services

INDEPENDENT ENDORSEMENT 

Bouygues has made a tangible pledge to reduce its carbon footprint and that of its customers by 2030. Five of its six business segments have had their decarbonisation targets endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This independent certification of Bouygues’ climate strategy shows that it is on the right track and encourages it to strengthen its practices in order to achieve its objectives. 

The drivers of its climate strategy 

  • Improve the reliability of carbon footprint calculations and life cycle analyses for its products. 
  • For scopes 1 and 2: change energy sources and reduce energy use (ISO 50 001, monitoring and management of energy use on worksites, energy efficiency, etc.). 
  • For scope 3, actions include eco-design, more ‘low carbon’ materials (low-carbon concrete, wood, etc.), greater circularity, redesigning current products and services to be more energy-efficient and better adapted to tomorrow’s climate, and supporting the Group’s suppliers and customers to collectively reduce their carbon footprint and use of resources. 

A MANAGED CLIMATE STRATEGY 

The Group and each of its business segments manage the Climate strategy and its objectives within a specific governance structure, with regular monitoring by Bouygues’ Ethics, CSR and Patronage Committee and Board of Directors. 

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The Group’s carbon footprint in 2023

  • GHG emissions from the Group’s business segments were 21.2 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2023 for scopes 1, 2, 3a and 3b 
  • Most emissions are attributable to purchases by the Group and to the energy used by worksites and other facilities at the construction businesses 

Greenhouse gas emissions by business segment (scopes 1, 2 and 3a) in percentage terms (2023) 

  • Bouygues Construction: 23.10
  • Bouygues Immobilier: 1.80
  • Colas: 50.00
  • TF1: 1.80
  • Bouygues Telecom: 3.80
  • Equans: 19.30

Greenhouse gas emissions by source in percentage terms (2023)

  • Materials and equipment: 58.00
  • Energy: 14.00
  • Use and end-of-life of products sold: 17.00
  • Miscellaneous: 11.00

EXAMPLES OF SOLUTIONS

Les Fabriques, a pioneering eco-neighbourhood in Marseille

Bouygues Construction and Bouygues Immobilier are transforming a 14-hectare brownfield site into a mixed-use eco-neighbourhood where innovation and environmental conservation are the watch words. Les Fabriques project will set a new benchmark for its green credentials, with nature taking centre stage.

A 1-GW green energy hub in the Netherlands

Equans is playing its part in the Renewable Energy Hub project in the province of Flevoland, to the north-east of Amsterdam. The aim is to provide the region with 1 GW of renewable energy by 2030. Equans and its coalition partners will install 500,000 solar panels, 37 wind turbines and 12 MW of battery storage capacity, with the electricity generated from these mixed sources fed into the local grid. The on-site Energy production and storage facilities will be connected within an optimised, effcient smart grid.

Raising viewers’ awareness of climate change

In 2022, TF1 aired over 850 reports on this subject, with the fgure rising to almost 1,200 by end-2023. In May, Terre Augmentée, an augmented reality segment produced by a team including journalist Yani Khezzar, won an award at “Grand Prix Stratégies de l’Innovation Média”.

An eco-designed “Bbox” modem

The Bbox Fibre Wifi 6 modem reflects Bouygues Telecom’s commitment to eco-design

It is made of 90% recycled halogen-free plastic and its power consumption has been reduced by 18% compared to the previous version. It is smaller, 37% lighter and designed to be easy to repair and dismantle thanks to its clip-based assembly, which avoids the use of glue.