Capital Energy joins the Spanish Environmental Impact Assessment Association

• Within the framework of the Company’s strategy of active contribution to the Fair and Green Transition and create long-term value from the environmental, social and technological point of view.

Capital Energy, a Spanish energy company founded in 2002 with the vocation of becoming the first vertically-integrated, 100%-renewable energy operator on the Iberian Peninsula has joined the Spanish Environmental Impact Assessment Association (AEEIA), within the framework of its strategy of active contribution to the environmentally friendly and just energy transition and create long-term value from the environmental, social and technological point of view.

Founded at the end of 1992, the AEEIA’s purpose, amongst others, is to promote, carry out and publish environmental studies, and its ultimate aim is to develop environmental assessments into a key instrument for defending the environment in the service of society. The organisation is set up as a platform for sharing know-how and joining the forces of its members with a view to progressing suitable environmental impact assessment and management in a coordinated, consistent manner.

By joining the AEEIA, Capital Energy will have detailed information about trends and best practices, as well as guidance in the most complicated cases. This will enable it to bring its projects into line with them and carry out the relevant environmental impact assessment studies with even more precision.

Recently, via the Spanish Network, Capital Energy also signed up to the United Nations Global Compact, committing to bringing all its operations into line with the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact Corporate sustainability in relation to conduct and action in the fields of human rights and business, employment regulations, the environment and the fight against corruption and, in this way, stimulate achievement of the Organisation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Furthermore, at the start of November, Capital Energy joined the Spanish Companies and Biodiversity Initiative (IEEB), promoted by the Biodiversity Foundation at the Ministry for the Green Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the aim of which is to support integration and conservation of biodiversity in the business strategies of the various business sectors in Spain’s economy, and also to identify alternative, innovative business opportunities and projects.

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