Climate Change Data

Union of French Road Industry Associations (USIRF)

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2014-2017, 2015)

Reporting Period: 2014-2017

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Resource Efficiency
  • Sustainable Infrastructure

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced GHG emissions by 31%
  • Reduced energy consumption by 37%
  • Reduced natural resource (aggregates) consumption by 70%
  • In one demonstrator project, reduced GHG emissions by 75%, energy consumption by 73%, and natural aggregates by 90%.

Social Achievements

  • Documented 75 health and safety projects and validated the protocol of the global index with the health authorities

Governance Achievements

  • Developed software to aid in more sustainable public procurement decisions, moving beyond lowest-price models.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Road operations historically prioritize technical conditions over environmental impact.
  • Limiting energy and natural resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions has always been a challenge for the industry.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Developed SustainEuroRoad software to assess the environmental impact of road operations.
  • Implemented software in various European countries and road types to validate its effectiveness.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2015

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environmental

Environmental Achievements

  • Updated LCA and FDES to reflect current standards and data; accounted for environmental benefits of reusing asphalt planings and road base courses; implemented a third-party critical review process.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Defining pavement lifespan; temporal and technological representativeness of data; limited data on certain aspects (e.g., bitumen fumes during truck loading); studied environmental impact indicators do not cover the entire range of environmental aspects affected by transport infrastructures.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Assumed a 100-year pavement lifespan with regular maintenance; reused data from previous studies, justifying their continued relevance; used various data sources to compensate for data limitations; acknowledged limitations of indicators.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: ISO 14040, ISO 14044, NF EN 15804+A1, XP P01-064/CN, ISO 14025

Third-party Assurance: Quantis and CSTB