Groupe La Poste // CSR REPORT 2022

Protecting biodiversity 5 WORKING TO ACCELERATE ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION FOR ALL ■

In 2021, La Poste Immobilier launched work to implement the biodiversity pillar of its sustainable real estate policy. Through this pillar, La Poste Immobilier measures the impacts of the real estate activity on biodiversity and undertakes to reduce them by integrating concerns for the preservation of nature and ecosystems into projects. In this context, in early 2022 La Poste Immobilier adopted a biodiversity roadmap with three major commitments: ■ reduce its footprint on biodiversity: better understand and reduce the impacts of its activities and operations; ■ regenerate ecosystems: be part of a positive contribution to biodiversity; ■ reconnect to living things: mobilise all teams and stakeholders, in particular through training actions and nature experiences around biodiversity issues. La Poste Immobilier has built its policy on a pre-existing foundation through various concrete actions: ■ mapping of the real estate portfolio near a ZIE, carried out in 2014 (update in 2021); ■ deployment of an awareness-raising tool for all employees, from 2014 (updated in 2021); For new sites ■ Include in the consultation documents: ■ update of the environmental platform programme with a new high environmental quality (HQE) profile ■ search for dedicated biodiversity labels ■ implement in-depth ecological diagnostics upstream of projects ■ Propose a ZAN strategy for 2030 and 2040: ■ speed up the conversion of wasteland to avoid the consumption of agricultural space ■ cross-reference with La Poste Groupe’s work on science based targets (SBT) for Nature ■ anticipate biodiversity offsetting measures (CDC Biodiversité) and renaturation tools ■ explore investment and forestry projects as “carbon sinks” For existing sites ■ Measure the biodiversity footprint of sites: La Poste Immobilier’s biodiversity roadmap

■ biodiversity certifications: Marseille St Charles – Effinature ® (delivered in 2021), Nantes Maison Innovation – BiodiverCity ® (delivery scheduled for 2024); ■ 40 sites with pollinators (wild or honey bees); ■ 10 eco-grazing sites; ■ 2 mini-forests installed at postal sorting platforms; ■ partnership with the French Bird Protection League; ■ launch of a collaboration with CDC Biodiversité to implement the Biodiversity performance contract; ■ 20 projects with the intervention of an ecologist. As part of its roadmap, for new sites, it is a question of limiting the impact on the artificialisation of soils and integrating biodiversity as a new quality standard. For existing sites, La Poste Immobilier aims to improve biodiversity by creating 1,000,000 square metres of green spaces by 2030. To materialise this commitment, a first wave of green space transformation was launched around a Biodiversity Performance Contract led by CDC Biodiversité, as well as the deployment of 24 LPO shelters and the completion of 100 ecological diagnostics covering respectively 50,000, 100,000 and 200,000 square metres of green spaces in 2022. ■ Turn buildings into places of biodiversity: ■ transform unbuilt spaces into natural islands, ■ introduce life (fauna and flora) and habitats into green spaces or buildings; ■ Integrate biodiversity into the business lines and throughout the real estate cycle: ■ transition from landscape management to ecological management of green spaces; ■ Measure and optimise water management: ■ identify national programmes to reverse soil sealing (light vehicle parking lots) or to revegetate roofs, ■ deploy rainwater storage and recovery solutions. For employees and stakeholders ■ Develop virtuous partnerships with preservation of life actors to make La Poste a “biodiversity promoter” in the real estate sector: partnerships to be developed (Act4Nature, CIBI, CDC Biodiversité, etc.) and to be extended (CNPF, LPO, etc.); ■ Acculturate employees to the challenges of biodiversity with awareness-raising tools (guide published internally in 2021); ■ Promote interactions between building users and living areas.

■ calculate the current footprint, ■ monitor its positive development, ■ define a relevant performance level;

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