Compagnie des Alpes // 2021 Universal Registration Document
4 STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Environmental challenges
l roll out a working group standard for ski areas, based on the best ecological engineering techniques, and which will be reflected in practices within five years; l launch a program to find hillside reservoirs favourable to biodiversity in 2021; l calculate the dynamic biodiversity footprint of our activities by increasing the reliability of the tools available by 2025. While waiting for a future performance indicator to measure our overall impact on biodiversity, we have opted for means or results indicators for some of the pressures exerted by the company. Indeed, we did not find an easily measurable overall result indicator adapted to the diversity and impacts of our business segments. In this context, we are closely monitoring the development of the GBS indicator (Global Biodiversity ScoreTM) for which we will be trained in 2021, as part of the B4B+ club ( Entreprises pour une Biodiversité Positive ), of which we are a member. We have therefore begun to organise the data concerning our pressures on biodiversity in the Ski areas, with the aim of calculating the “dynamic” footprint of this activity. Employee travel to our destinations In terms of road transport, seven Ski areas and three Leisure parks have provided shuttles for their employees (free or subsidised) in order to limit the use of personal vehicles and help them get to work. The other sites benefit from an in-town location or are close to public transport. Furthermore, the Group sites are introducing initiatives to encourage travel to work on public transport and to reduce the number of required journeys. For example: l a number of remote Ski areas provide accommodation to some of their seasonal workers. For example, STVI provides around 100 housing units, STGM provides its employees with approximately 80 housing units to house its staff, the Flaine ski area provides accommodation for a large number of its seasonal workers in winter, SAP has 26 housing units for its seasonal workers, and ADS has three studios to facilitate the accommodation of work-study students; l other sites encourage employees to use the ski lifts at the bottom of the valley to get to their pick-up points ( e.g. Les Arcs funicular and public transport used by around 450 employees); l car sharing is offered through membership of GMDS at Green Wayz- up, for example, which puts users from different companies in Haute Savoie in touch with each other via a mobile app, a partnership with Klaxit at Futuroscope or posting timetables in staff rooms and at operator companies or on the Parc Astérix employee app; l one of our Belgian sites offers staff who come by bicycle defrayal and provides bicycles in partnership with Blue Bike for station-park trips; ADS, in Les Arcs, subsidises a parking pass at the bottom of the valley at the foot of the funicular for 90 employees; l finally, head office staff have remote working agreements and each Group site has one or more video-conferencing facilities in rooms or on PCs to reduce the need for travel between sites. This practice has naturally increased with the use of teleworking during the management of the pandemic.
4.3.3 BIODIVERSITY AND LANDSCAPES Biodiversity protection is therefore a major environmental challenge for the Group. The exceptional natural environment in which we operate is an intangible component of our work tool and also the place where many of our employees and their families live. Currently, use of these options is low compared to total visitor numbers. However, these trials and other innovations must be rolled out to offer simple, flexible and comfortable alternative high-impact travel to our different sites. In addition, the deployment of charging stations for electric vehicles continues in leisure parks to support low-carbon mobility. In the course of 2021, the Group took the following actions as part of its Entreprise Engagée pour la Nature initiative, for the Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB, French Office for Biodiversity): l switch to zero-phyto practices in the management of green spaces in Leisure parks by 2025; l doubling the share of sustainable food in French Leisure parks by 2025; l reduce operating waste by a third in the Leisure parks by 2025; l rehabilitate the proper functioning of 30 wetlands in ten years in the ski areas; l free station-to-station shuttle buses (Tignes, Val d’Isère) and shuttle buses from the valley (La Plagne) or from Paris or Charles de Gaulle airport (Parc Astérix), easy public transport options for visitors between the park and hotels (Futuroscope), long-distance buses now stopping at Parc Astérix and Walibi Rhône-Alpes (departing from Lyon in the high season), or Skibus shuttles from Annemasse and Annecy to the Grand Massif; l bicycle parking facilities at the Bellewaerde Aquapark, preferential rates for coach operators; l seven of the Group’s resorts have signed a partnership with Snowcarbon to promote packages with train and bus access to the resorts; In addition, Travelski, a Group subsidiary, uses public transport for most of its groups under the Yoonly brand; l promoting public transport or including a “car sharing” section on the website ( e.g. Futuroscope and Parc Astérix) to help people to find car shares, with car-sharing areas and stops in the valley. In particular, the Group is participating in two emblematic actions: Travelski Express and FuniFlaine l the Group is relaunching the London - Moûtiers - Bourg -Saint- Maurice railway line and will assume the financing for the ski season in 2021/2022, following the discontinuation of the link operated by Eurostar. Assuming full trains with passengers who would otherwise have come by plane, this represents around 6,000 teq. CO 2 avoided; l the Group has applied for and is part of the consortium chosen to carry out the FuniFlaine valley lift project between Magland and the Flaine ski resort, which should be launched in 2025. The Entreprise Engagée pour la Nature (company committed to nature) action plan
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