Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023
1. Information on the Company’s Activities 1.2 Non-Financial Information
Protecting the future of our planet During 2023, the community impact projects again focused primarily on employee awareness and action to preserve and restore local biodiversity. In Vietnam, the Company supported a community forest project in collaboration with the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam and Gaia Nature Conservation. 500 trees were planted by Company employees in Vietnam over 1.25 hectares of land in the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve. The Company also saw emerging needs around education on sustainable development topics. Following a school-based pilot in 2022, the Company entered into a 2-year partnership with Ocean Generation to scale their Wavemakers programme which aims to reach and equip 3,000 young people aged 16-24 with accurate and science-based environmental information, encourage a solution focused mindset, and build confidence for them to take action on social and environmental issues within their areas of influence. The Airbus Foundation continued its environment partnerships, focusing on climate change mitigation and monitoring, disaster prevention and protecting biodiversity. This included developing its collaboration with Connected Conservation Foundation through the “Satellites for Biodiversity” award that provided high resolution satellite data to three community-based organisations. Focus areas included informing local conservation management of Asian elephant habitat in Thailand’s Sai Yok National Park and helping local communities protect vital habitats for the endangered Matschie tree kangaroo in Papua New Guinea. In addition, the Foundation entered the second phase of its 3-year project with IUCN, providing technical data, satellite images and project management to contribute to the validation of IUCN’s forest restoration barometer. A new model developed in 2023, has delivered improved SAR imagery-machine learning methodology with 80-85% accuracy. Employee engagement The Company’s Sustainability Ambassador network grew by 81% in 2023 with a total of 811 members representing all functions and located across 20 countries. A key enabler for awareness, engagement and culture change, the network was instrumental in engaging employees through the “+impact” platform through sustainability challenges such as “Digital Clean Up” with employees recording almost 3000 positive actions across all
challenges. Following its launch at the end of 2022, participation in the +impact platform grew from 4% to 12% of the employee population during the year. Generously donating towards multiple disaster relief appeals during the year, the Company’s employees also worked together to participate in volunteering and fundraising actions around the world. A particular highlight was the charity run in Toulouse in partnership with La Ligue Contre Le Cancer , where more than 2,000 employees participated in the event and over 40 employees volunteered in the preparations and on the day. In place for 22 years, the Lucky Pennies payroll giving initiative in Germany continued to grow, supporting 63 local projects during the year; and the Company’s digital function supported an education project in Kenya, equipping a remote community school and training teachers to deliver ICT curriculum in accordance with government requirements. For a third year, the Airbus Foundation supported the Action Against Hunger global wellbeing event, Connected Against Hunger , enabling almost 4,000 employees to participate and raise funds for Action Against Hunger’s lifesaving work. IV. Outlook With a baseline now in place for its community impact philanthropic activities, the Company intends to evolve its strategy further towards a shared value approach, seeking new opportunities that bring both business and societal value to ensure scalable and sustainable impact. Activities will focus on social procurement, building and expanding on activity already well developed with “disabled friendly” companies (see Responsible Supply Chain section), product and services development, and closely aligning with early careers programmes to expand equitable access to skills pathways. Additional employee engagement mechanisms will also be introduced, including a “mecenat de competence” (loan of skills to eligible organisations, such as nonprofits) scheme for the Company’s employees in France. The Airbus Foundation is redefining its youth strategy to focus on the most vulnerable populations. In 2024 a call for proposals will be organised to seek new environmental partnerships in additional topic areas, and the Foundation’s new partner, Ocean Polaire will begin the operational phase of its Polar Pod project.
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