One of our most important commitments in our strategy is the protection of the environment. Our objective is to minimise the impact that our industrial activity may have on the territory where we operate.
To comply with this commitment, at Endesa, we have signed the Biodiversity Pact, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, and based on an initiative of the Biodiversity Foundation. With this pact, which has been signed by fifteen other large Spanish companies, we are committed to carry out the activity respectfully with the conservation of biodiversity.
Our environmental management attempts to minimise, to the extent possible, the consumption of natural resources. Through a structured and fully operational plan, we are committed to conserving biodiversity, preferably in the places where we operate, but not just there.
The Biodiversity Conservation Plan is inserted within Endesa’s Environmental Policy as one of its most relevant and distinctive facets, given that all of the actions included in it are either carried out completely voluntarily, or by far exceeding the merely obligatory environmental requirements. In addition, all of the Plan projects represent a verifiable and quantifiable improvement in terms of biodiversity or in terms of contribution to the scientific knowledge that exists about it.
By the end of 2017, the Biodiversity Conservation Plan had a total of 25 activities under way, with the following balance: 20 started in previous years (with 5 of them ending in 2017 and 15 which continue active) and 5 further actions started in the last year. The following table shows the distribution of Endesa’s Biodiversity Conservation Plan actions under way in 2017, classified in accordance with the governing matrix of the Plan and the 20 types of actions it houses, which can be deducted from the cross of rows by columns.
