Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (SD & CSR) master plan for the period 2025-2030.
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A strategic framework to support the institution's transformation
BRGM is presenting its 2025-2030 Sustainable Development and CSR Master Plan, confirming its determination to adapt its practices in response to the major environmental and societal challenges.
This master plan is a comprehensive and unifying project involving all the institution's teams and covers all its activities: scientific research, support for public policies, partnership research and expert appraisal, post-mining management, and support activities.
Aligned with BRGM's strategic objectives for scientific research, climate, regional and digital issues, this document sets out the main guidelines for sustainable development. It highlights the priorities to be achieved by 2030 and the practical measures that will enable them to be implemented.
Two main strategic objectives for action
To structure BRGM's initiatives and ensure that its actions meet its goals, the SD & CSR master plan is based on 5 commitments, divided between two complementary strategic objectives: climate, biodiversity and resources, and social progress.
Climate, biodiversity, resources
- Accelerating society's ecological transition: BRGM uses its research, innovation and expertise to find solutions to environmental challenges by developing scientific projects with a high societal impact.
- Strengthening the dialogue between science and society: it is important to inform people of the role of the subsurface in the ecological transition so that scientific research feeds into decision-making.
- Reducing the environmental impact of activities and adapting them: BRGM is taking action to limit its ecological footprint by reducing carbon emissions, controlling energy and water consumption, reducing impacts on biodiversity, and adapting to the effects of climate change.
Social progress
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion: BRGM is committed to becoming a more inclusive establishment by taking advantage of the diversity of its employees as a lever for innovation and collective performance.
- Affirming a meaningful social policy: beyond inclusion, BRGM seeks to improve the quality of life and working conditions of its employees.
First measures in 2025
In 2025, BRGM has begun implementing its 2025-2030 Sustainable Development and CSR Master Plan, with a number of advances:
Environmental guiding principles
- Inclusion of carbon footprint reduction targets in the annual roadmaps of BRGM's various divisions.
- Modernising buildings and saving water at the Orléans science and technology centre.
- Deployment of water recovery systems.
- More bicycle parking.
- Training in "digital responsibility" and eco-driving.
- Circular economy initiatives: equipment donations (screens), partnership with Emmaüs Connect, solidarity textile collection.
- Abolition of the sale of plastic bottles, promotion of "home-cooked" and organic food in canteen catering.
Social and societal guiding principle
- Implementation of major agreements: sustainable mobility, job and skills management, right to disconnect.
- Equality and inclusion: dedicated group, amendment to the equality agreement.
- Disability: the employment rate of 6.11% in 2024 was higher than the national average (3.6%), awareness-raising initiatives.
- Strengthening intergenerational relations (around 55 work-study students, mentoring of young people by seniors).
- Mental health programmes, diversity forums, podcasts highlighting atypical career paths.
These actions illustrate an integrated and operational CSR approach, in line with BRGM's scientific, regional and digital objectives.
Outlook for 2026
In 2026, implementation of the master plan will be stepped up with a number of key initiatives:
- identifying the carbon footprint of BRGM's digital activities as part of the greenhouse gas emissions assessment (BEGES),
- tracking the institution's carbon footprint over the year,
- drawing up BRGM's plan to promote socially and environmentally responsible purchasing (Spaser),
- systematising environmental criteria in public procurement contracts, in particular by introducing them for contracts over €40,000 not including VAT,
- purchasing service or rental vehicles that emit less CO2 for employees to use,
- favouring rail travel (instead of air) within Europe,
- continuing to renovate buildings and drinking water systems in line with the High Environmental Quality (HEQ) approach,
- ruling on the installation of solar panel farms on former mining sites for which BRGM is responsible,
- training employees to operate and drive electric and hybrid cars,
- offering employees the opportunity to use the BlaBlaCar Daily car-sharing platform,
- increasing the number of useful, weather-protected bicycle parking spaces,
- eliminating plastic water bottles,
- extending animal grazing to maintain green spaces at the Orléans site from 4,000 m2 to 30,000 m2,
- systematising and optimising the sorting of office waste at the Orléans site,
- implementing an energy master plan,
- strengthening actions in favour of equality, inclusion and a better quality of life and working conditions.
