ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT

Measurement of the global environmental performance of the group

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The Corporate Environmental Footprint (CEF) is defined as a multi-criteria measure of the environmental performance of a goods/services providing organization from a life cycle perspective. The main objective of a CEF is to reduce the environmental impact derived from the organisation's activities.

INTERACTIVE REPORT ON CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT (HAC)

Here you can consult the main indicators of environmental scope of the new digital report of the Corporate Environmental Footprint (CEF) of the Iberdrola group by selecting the country or type of business from which you want to know the data.

The Iberdrola group's Environmental Footprint objectives are:

  • Understand and compare objectively the effect of our activity in the different environmental impact categories, trace their cause, identifying the environmental aspects and the assets/technologies/regions responsible of them. This will be an extra element of information for the company's management system.
  • Have a single homogeneous methodology for the whole group that allows: 
    • Measure to improve, developing activities to reduce the environmental impact, with the aim of:
      • Improve operational efficiency.
      • Improve our reputation, through transparency.
      • Promote innovation.
      • Make possible intern and extern benchmarking.
      • Reduce environmental risks. 
  • Ensure the group's commitment to transparency.

The calculation of the Endpoint provides us with a final value for the company's global environmental performance by grouping the different environmental impacts into a single score. In turn, the Endpoint score values for each impact category are also reported:

IMPACT CATEGORY Score (Points) IBERDROLA GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
Climate change (Human health) 3,365,862,847  
Ozone layer depletion 551,333
Human toxicity 361,361,601
Photochemical ozone formation 182,700
Particulate matter formation 669,213,886
Ionising radiation 10,027,455
Climate change (Ecosystems) 283,526,853
Soil acidification 411,047
Freshwater eutrophication 305,886 8,925,763,619
Soil ecotoxicity 369,425  
Freshwater ecotoxicity 1,053,478
Marine ecotoxicity 179,942
Rural land occupancy 29,941,950
Urban land occupancy 52,762,960
Natural land transformation 13,841,954
Mineral resource depletion 158,021,217
Fossil fuel depletion 3,978,149,078