Airbus - 2022 Universal Registration Document

1. Information on the Company’s Activities / 1.2 Non-Financial Information

The strategy is based on the following eight pillars:

Key pillars

Description and rationale

Examples of projects

Installation of smart water metres with automated and digital data transfer, high frequency and increased granularity ( e.g. commercial aircraft sites and Airbus Defence and Space Division sites in Europe).

Measuring as a prerequisite to identify water flows and manage consumption. Track consumption, identify biggest consumers to focus priorities; detect deviations.

Measure/Metre

Smart metering on site/building/asset level, connection to digital platforms, creation of KPIs and regular reports, alert systems.

Monitor

Identify and fix leakages, reconsider processes.

Leakage detection campaigns at Blagnac (France) and Mirabel (Canada) sites.

Avoid waste

Implementation of latest technical solutions for cooling at Illescas site (Spain), air conditioning, boilers and sanitary equipment retrofit at Puerto Real site (Spain), replacement of water chiller with air-cooled systems in Portsmouth (UK), reduction of irrigation at Miami (US) and Tianjin (China) sites. Reuse for non-drinking purposes ( e.g. toilets, gardening), industrial process water loops for surface treatment and air conditioning. River/lake water treatment and reuse at Hamburg and Friedrichshafen sites (Germany), rainwater harvesting at Toulouse site (France), groundwater use at Donauwörth site (Germany).

Increase efficiency; equipment retrofit.

Reduce

Create (closed) loops; use the same volume several times.

Reuse

Use rainwater, surface water, groundwater.

Replace

Ensure high water efficiency standards from the design phase.

Certified building standards, e.g. LEED (Silver certification, Mobile site, US).

New Building Design

Employee awareness campaigns ( e.g. World Water Day communication on internal portal).

Inform and engage employees.

Communication

In 2022, water withdrawal volumes increased by about 10% compared to 2021, mainly as a result of people returning to the workplace after the COVID-19 period. When compared to 2015 baseline, water withdrawal reduced by 2.5% while purchased

water dropped by 13%. In 2022, leaks were identified and fixed in Blagnac (France) and Mirabel (Canada), with an estimated impact of less than 2% on total water withdrawal.

1.2.6 Biodiversity

I. Introduction The Company recognises the considerable pressure planet Earth is facing as a result of loss of biodiversity. The latest 2019 report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (“ IPBES ”) demonstrates that the health of ecosystems is deteriorating more rapidly than ever and the 2021 IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop shows the clear interdependencies between climate action and biodiversity protection. In this context, the Company intends to improve its understanding of the impacts its activities and biodiversity may have on each other alongside the interdependencies of this subject with the Company’s ongoing climate actions. Moreover, the Company aims to contribute to the updated and new goals and objectives for biodiversity. These include the ones for 2030 and 2050 agreed at the 15 th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022, in Montreal, according to which all signatory countries should update their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans as well as National Biodiversity Finance Strategies. Key goals are also ones set by the European Union in the EU Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy of 2020 that place the European Union at the forefront of this transformation.

II. Governance The Airbus Environmental Policy and overall governance, as described in “– 1.2.2 Climate Change” applies to the biodiversity topic. III. Risk Management Environmental risk and opportunities are managed following the Company’s ERM system, as described in the section “– 1.2.2 Climate Change”. IV. Implementation/Activities In order to progress its understanding of the impact of its activities on biodiversity, the Company has identified the IPBES report as a relevant framework to follow. In 2022, the Company launched a project to compile an inventory of potential impacts across the five drivers of biodiversity loss: changing use of sea and lands, direct exploitation of organisms, climate change, pollution and invasive non-native species. Meanwhile, the Company presumes that the most material biodiversity loss impact is linked to the impact of its commercial aircraft activities on climate change and, as such, efforts are prioritised alongside the existing climate related initiatives. See “– 1.2.2 Climate Change”. In addition, a number of mitigation actions have been started in relation to the other drivers. Pollution: see “– 1.2.3 Pollution”.

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Airbus / Universal Registration Document 2022