Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023

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

Measuring as a prerequisite to identify water flows and manage consumption. Track consumption, ensure control of deviations and detection of abnormalities. Identify and fix leakages, reconsider processes.

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).

Measure / metre

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

Monitor

Leakage detection campaigns; improved parameters of Super Plastic Forming press cooling system to avoid unnecessary use of water in Toulouse (France). Adoption of cooling system with reduced water consumption 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); new press cooling system in Bremen (Germany); improved efficiency of air conditioning systems through water treatment system and automatic adaptation of airflow in Stade (Germany); improvement of cooling towers cycles in Toulouse (France); reduction of irrigation at Miami (US), Tianjin (China) and Blagnac (France) sites. Reuse of treated industrial wastewater in Nordenham (Germany) in industrial processes; water reuse for Non-Destructive Testing in Illescas (Spain); reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation in Beijing (China).

Avoid squandering

Increase efficiency; equipment retrofit.

Reduce

Create closed loops; use the same volume several times.

Reuse

Use rainwater.

Rainwater harvesting at Toulouse (France), Broughton (UK) and Illescas (Spain) sites.

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, onsite awareness-raising animations on water in Blagnac and Toulouse sites).

Inform and engage employees.

Communication

In 2023, water withdrawal decreased by about 4% compared to 2022. When compared to 2015 baseline, water withdrawal reduced by 18.1%; similarly, purchased water dropped by 17.7%. These savings resulted from a number of operational

improvements and technical projects in line with the eight pillars described above, and including reinforced operational control, control of irrigation practices and leakage repair.

1.2.6 Biodiversity

I. Introduction The Company recognises the considerable pressure the planet 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 rapidly 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 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, which notably calls on businesses to assess and disclose biodiversity dependencies, impacts and risks, and reduce negative impacts. II. Governance The Airbus Environmental Policy and overall governance, as described in “– 1.2.2 Climate Change” apply to this 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. The Company launched in 2022 and further progressed in 2023 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 the operation of its commercial aircraft 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 actions have been started in relation to the other drivers such as creating some baseline to support the management of eventual impacts related to “Changing use of land” (see below). Pollution: see “– 1.2.3 Pollution”.

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