Solidarity Solar - Portugal
In Portugal, providing access to solar energy to underprivileged families and communities
Say "YES" to change the world
Meet EDP Y.E.S. - You Empower Society, the new global program that brings together more than 500 social responsibility projects, with more than €30M invested each year, worldwide.
Discover some of the projects below
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Impact on Communities
Annually, EDP supports more than 300 projects in communities around the world, with an investment of over €30M. Part of this investment corresponds to projects whose scope of action contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On the other hand, EDP uses the international methodology B4SI - Business for Societal Impact - to evaluate its voluntary investment in the community, which represents the largest part of the investment in this area. Learn more about how EDP contributes to SDGs and reports according to B4SI.
Our commitment to the SDGs
Our line of work is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), designed by the United Nations, in 2015, that establishes priorities and aspirations within the global sustainable development for 2030, which aim to move global efforts around a set of common objectives and targets.
In addition to the contribution through its operations/business, the EDP group also voluntarily contributes to the SDGs through its social investment programs, prioritizing the objectives 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17. Today we are changing tomorrow.
Our impact is measured a different way
EDP reports on its contribution to the SDGs not only in terms of the SDGs objectives and targets, but also in terms of the indicators established by the United Nations. To do this, EDP uses the following method:
- A project is considered to contribute to a given SDG indicator if it has an immediate impact on the indicator's result (direct effect), changes the context determining the indicator's result (leverage effect) or promotes knowledge/awareness on a certain topic that influences the indicator's result (indirect effect);
- In order to apply them at the scale of social investment projects/initiatives, we have converted the definition of SDG indicators where necessary using the following equivalences:
- GDP to GVA
- Legislation to company standard
- Population to local communities/employees/customers
- Developing countries is extended to developing regions/areas.
Measuring our investment in the community - B4SI
EDP has adopted the Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) international methodology to characterize and assess its voluntary investment and impact on the communities. This model promotes the alignment between our own purpose and social needs, facilitating the definition of priorities, decision-making, and the analysis of the results and benefits generated for the communities.
EDP Y.E.S. - You Empower Society is a new brand that will allow us to aggregate more than 500 projects of social responsibility that are being developed by EDP worldwide, with a similar objective - implement measures to decarbonize production and consumption, promote human rights and social inclusion, promote social responsibility and encourage our employees to dare to change the world.
Check some of the projects bellow
Promote access to energy and energy savings, improving living conditions and economic development of communities
Develop and support projects in order to promote proximity to local communities
Our program challenges cultural empowerment by supporting initiatives dedicated to arts and traditions
Promote biodiversity, climate change awareness and the circular economy through several initiatives
These programs aim to facilitate capacitation and work-tools, to generate economic value.
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