TAKING POSITIVE ACTION, LINK MAKING REAL PROGRESS I want to thank everyone for their of biodiversity. Over the last few efforts and enthusiasm, and for their months we’ve forged new partnerships, 2 conviction! LINK permeates the life of including with Symbiose , and in early the Cooperative and the companies of 2024 we intend to start measuring VIVESCIA Industries at every level... the Group’s biodiversity footprint. In fact, it’s the key to its success! LINK The aim is to identify and quantify the is intricately connected to the Group’s biodiversity impacts and dependencies Valérie Frapier, Group director strategy. It brings new ideas and of our different activities, so we can of CSR and external relations, energy, showing us the way forward develop an appropriate biodiversity brings us up to date on the and driving change in a coherent strategy by the end of 2024. The same way. LINK ensures that our position applies to the issue of water, which TRANSITIONS regenerative farming is commensurate with the Group’s is a growing concern. We’re already programme she’s leading mission and scale. It also means we can working on initiatives in this area. We live up to our responsibilities towards think it’s important to take a joined- our employees, our Cooperative up approach – at Group level, and up members, our customers, our 昀椀nancial and down our entire value chain – so Two years on, how are things and banking partners, consumers and we can draw up suitable action plans looking? wider society. and integrate water management as a Positive! I’m very optimistic! It’s been What are your priorities and plans strand of our LINK policy. a busy two years since our board for the coming months? VIVESCIA also launched approved the strategic framework TRANSITIONS this year, which is in autumn 2021: LINK is a robust, To consolidate and embed the so much more than a standard pragmatic and ambitious programme, strategies that will underpin positive CSR programme! which means that it puts great change – towards safeguarding a stable demands on us! We’ve made good climate, soil health and biodiversity; That’s right! We’ve been working progress on governance, setting up the enhancing diversity, inclusion and on it for two years. It’s an innovative Youth Committee and moving ahead quality of life in the workplace; and economic, agronomic and with the Administrators’ Charter. supporting the development of our organizational project which is coming Foundational projects have been regions and our industries. Many to fruition. launched to protect the climate, the are in preparation or have already environment and biodiversity. There been launched. One example is the are others in the pipeline to tackle commitment we made in April to set biodiversity matters. We’ve forged science-based targets (SBTi1 ) as part promising partnerships, both within of our climate strategy: we will reduce and outside the Group, to further our direct and indirect greenhouse gas develop our top-tier value chains, emissions by 29% by 2030. making them ever more virtuous. This LINK is destined to change, and will SCAN THE QR CODE helps bring new momentum to the keep evolving through dialogue with TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT regions we operate in – and solidarity our stakeholders, and as the Group VIVESCIA’S SUSTAINABLE here is important to us. We can all DEVELOPMENT POLICY, CSR Committee identi昀椀es speci昀椀c LINK be proud of what we’ve achieved! issues to focus on. Take the question 1. Created following the Paris Agreement, and the product of a collaboration between several institutions around the world, including the UN, the Science- Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) is now the benchmark in terms of companies’ carbon trajectories. 2. Created in 2012, Symbiose is an association that promotes biodiversity in the Champagne-Ardenne region with the help of researchers, farmers, hunters, beekeepers, naturalists, technical experts and investors who are committed to protecting biodiversity. See page 43 34