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Our Impact

Discover the impact of saying Y.E.S.

Get to know EDP Y.E.S. - You Empower Society, the global program that brings together more than 500 social responsibility projects, with an investment of over €30M per year, all over the world.

Our Social Investment Policy

The EDP Group's Social Investment Policy establishes the objectives, corporate strategies and regulations regarding EDP's Social Investment, which is expressed in social responsibility programs and projects in the community through own and collaborative initiatives, donations, and volunteering.

Our Volunteering Policy

The EDP Group's Volunteering Policy establishes EDP's vision and commitments regarding corporate volunteering, defining the principles of action in the different geographies where it is present and regulating the duties and rights of Volunteer employees, as well as the responsibilities of the management team.

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 Sustainable Development Goals

Our line of work is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), outlined by the United Nations in 2015, which establish priorities and aspirations within global sustainable development by 2030, with the aim of guiding global efforts around a common set of goals and targets. In addition to contributing through its operations/businesses, the EDP group also voluntarily contributes to the SDGs through its social investment programs, prioritizing goals 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17.

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.
14.2 M€
EDP's contribution to the SDGs, through global social responsibility programs, in 2023.
43%
Investment in social responsibility programs linked to the SDGs, as a percentage of total contributions, in 2023.
The contributions are split between the SDGs in the following way:
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.

33.1 M€
Voluntary investment in communities by EDP Group, from a B4SI point-of-view, in 2023.
92%
92% of this investment was classified as strategic, resulting in 3.1 million direct beneficiaries.
This investment is split into the following categories:

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41.8%

Arts and culture
Support for projects that promote access to art and culture, and the preservation of cultural heritage.

7.3%

Education
Support for projects that contribute to the development of skills and access to education for disadvantaged people.

7.3%

Economic development
Priority to energy access projects for communities disconnected from the electricity grid, support for entrepreneurship and job creation.

Emergency Relief

0.5%
Support for projects whose objective is to alleviate the consequences of emergency situations and improve the means available to emergency response teams.

Environment

11.5%
Support for projects that promote biodiversity, decarbonization and awareness of climate change.

Health

0.3%
Includes support in infrastructure, equipment and actions that promote health and healthy lifestyles.

Social Welfare

21.2%
Includes social inclusion projects aimed at the most vulnerable population such as energy inclusion projects.

Other

10.1%
When the project does not fall into any other B4SI category.
  2023202220212020
Form of contributionCash16 94017 75119 29917 486
 Time (volunteering time)570261211310
 In-kind8 7001 8451 7642 858
 Total26 21119 85721 27420 654
Driver for contributionCharitable gifts2 1385441 735980
 Community investment24 03818 63619 53119 674
 Commercial initiatives3567790
 Total26 21119 85721 27520 654
Nature of contributionEducation1 9162 4781 6791 574
 Health701075351
 Economic development1 9091 033686756
 Environment3 0172 4141 125787
 Arts and culture10 9615 6258 4747 647
 Social welfare5 5696 1046 2712 432
 Emergency relief1237873046 144
 Other2 6461 3102 2011 313
 Total26 21119 85821 27520 654
 Management costs6 85011 3761 283554
 Total value of contributions (including management costs)33 06031 23322 55821 208

Relatórios de investimento social

Social Investment Report 2023
Document
PDF . 15.42 MB
Social Investment Report 2022
Document
PDF . 3.81 MB

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