Construction / Real Estate

Bouygues sustainability score: 29/100

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About Bouygues

Bouygues is a French construction and conglomerate group with €56 billion annual revenue (2023), operating in 60+ countries across construction (Bouygues Construction, Colas), telecoms (Bouygues Telecom), real estate (Bouygues Immobilier), facilities services (Equans), and media (TF1). Founded 1952, headquartered in Paris.

Founded 1952Head office Paris, FranceStaff ~200,000Revenue €56.0B (FY2023)Website ↗

Our verdict

Bouygues reports detailed Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions with SBTi-validated targets across all six business segments, but undermines credibility through intensity-based Scope 3 targets on buildings instead of absolute reductions. Critical gaps: no group-wide renewable energy commitment, zero water management strategy despite global operations, and unverified supplier engagement. A large conglomerate disclosing selectively.

Bouygues scores 29/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified May 2026.

That places Bouygues joint 706th of 934 companies scored, and joint 24th of 27 in Construction / Real Estate.

The ten questions

What is Bouygues doing well, and where does it fall short?

Strongest on Targets & Commitments and Carbon Footprint: Operations (7/10, 6/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Energy Source (1/10, 3/10).

What's missing

Where Bouygues lost points

For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.

  • Emissions from its own operations6/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
  • Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
  • Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
  • How clean its energy is3/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
  • Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
  • How it uses materials and handles waste4/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
  • Its effect on water1/10No figures for its water use.
  • Its climate targets7/10Its targets aren't validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
  • How openly it reports5/10No dedicated sustainability role, board oversight or public report.
  • Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.

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The calculation

How is Bouygues's SINK score calculated?

Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.

SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale
Industry base impact
Construction / Real Estate sector ceiling.
35 / 100
Performance score
Sum of the ten questions, each scored 0 to 10.
45 / 100
Raw score
Weighted average before scale penalty.
(0.3 × 35) + (0.7 × 45) = 42.0
Scale penalty
Multiplier based on total emissions. Bigger polluters lose more.
× 0.7
Final score
Rounded. Significant gaps.
29 / 100
Where the evidence comes from

What evidence is Bouygues's score based on?

16 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.

56% of them were published by Bouygues itself; the rest come from independent sources.

Scored on 4 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.

[1]Independent source
DitchCarbon — Bouygues SA
Ongoing
Q1Q2
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[2]Self-reported
Climate Strategy — Bouygues
Ongoing
Q1Q2Q4Q10
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[3]Self-reported
Sustainable Commitments ESG — Bouygues Bâtiment International
Ongoing
Q1
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[4]Self-reported
2025 Integrated Report & Task Force Disclosure Supplement — Bouygues
2025
Q2Q8Q9
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[5]Self-reported
Press Release — Bouygues Full-Year Results
2024Archived copy from 2025-08-08: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q3
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[6]Public record
Full Year 2023 Results — Bouygues
2024Archived copy from 2024-02-29: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q3
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[7]Independent source
SBTI Approves Bouygues Construction Carbon Reduction Targets
UnknownArchived copy from 2025-01-30: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q3
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[8]Public record
SUEZ Renewable Electricity PPA with Bouygues
Unknown
Q4
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[9]Self-reported
Responsible Supply Chain — Bouygues
OngoingArchived copy from 2025-05-27: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q4
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[10]Independent source
World Benchmarking Alliance Nature Benchmark 2022 — Bouygues
2022
Q5Q6Q7
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[11]Self-reported
Climate & Environment Report 2024 — Bouygues UK
2024Archived copy from 2025-09-11: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q5Q6Q7Q9
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[12]Self-reported
Our Approach: Climate & Environment — Bouygues UK
OngoingArchived copy from 2026-01-21: the original link no longer opens for us.
Q5
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[13]Self-reported
Press Release H1 2024 — Equans
2024
Q6
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[14]Independent source
S&P Global ESG Score — Bouygues
Unknown
Q9
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[15]Public record
Bouygues — Wikipedia
Ongoing
Q10
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[16]Self-reported
2024 Full Year Results — Bouygues
2025
Q8
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Bouygues in context

How does Bouygues compare with other construction / real estate companies?

Where Bouygues sits among construction / real estate peers.

Among the 27 major construction / real estate brands we've scored, Bouygues is tied =24th of 27, with 2 others.

=24/27
Bouygues's rank
42
Industry average
27
Industry low
60
Industry high
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