Environment
Contributing to a regenerative world
Nature is under growing pressure. Climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion are accelerating globally, creating interconnected risks for ecosystems, people and businesses.
Our main contribution to the planet is our work to accelerate the energy transition, which is inseparable from the resilience of the natural world. That is why we integrate nature across our corporate strategy through our Environmental Policy, which sets clear principles for protecting ecosystems, preventing air, water and soil pollution, and reducing impacts and dependencies of its activity on nature, while promoting sustainable resource use across all our operations.
EDP’s Supplier Code of Conduct further strengthens these commitments by extending environmental expectations to suppliers and business partners to identify, monitor and mitigate the environmental impacts and risks of their activities, product, materials and means of transport, promoting continuous improvement and conserving the environment.
Nature Management Approach
To strengthen the Environmental Policy’s commitments, EDP has developed the Nature Management Approach (NMA)—a group-wide framework that guides how we identify, assess and manage nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across the full value chain.
Aligned with TNFD recommendations and the LEAP approach, the NMA describes how EDP integrates nature into decision‑making and embeds protection across the project lifecycle, translating the corporate approach and global goals into an operational framework to be applied at project level, while supporting societal endeavours.
For EDP, protecting and restoring nature is not only vital to halting biodiversity loss; it is also a key enabler of climate resilience, business resilience, and effective risk management. By embracing nature as a solution, EDP strengthens its ability to manage risks and reinforces its commitment to a future where ecosystems, climate objectives, and long‑term business performance advance together.
Enviromental Management System
In line with its Environmental Policy, EDP manages environmental risks and impacts through a comprehensive Environmental Management System (EMS) framework based on a materiality‑driven approach. At corporate level, environmental governance, strategy, policies, commitments and performance monitoring are overseen under the Corporate Environmental Management System (SIGAC), certified in accordance with ISO 14001:2015 since 2008 by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance.
At operational level, ISO 14001‑certified local environmental management systems are implemented for all activities and assets where material environmental risks have been identified, ensuring effective operational control, regulatory compliance and consistent environmental risk management across the Group.
Activities assessed as having no material environmental risk such as distributed solar generation predominantly developed in urban environments and office buildings, are therefore not subject to dedicated local EMS.
Promoting a positive impact of nature
Climate change
Circular economy
Biodiversity
Global partnerships and dialogues to advance action
EDP actively contributes to and supports global partners committed to helping the business community respond not only to climate change, but also to broader environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, resource use and ecosystem resilience, while progressing the energy transition.
