Sustainability

Chapada dos guimarães, Matp Grosso, Brazil, rock surrounded by green and brown mountains and vegetations

Bound to win in Mato Grosso

When you need to go further, working with others is a winning strategy. In the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil’s agricultural heartland, four organisations have banded together in a project to fight deforestation and conversion – the Jerónimo Martins Group is one of them.

image of a long table filled with elderly women sitted with plates in front of them, and of of them is pouring soup into a plate

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Social energy: how solidarity can connect and empower people

aerial view of summer field with wind turbines in Poland

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How is Poland changing its energy sources

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The road to clean energy

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Agility and Engagement as Core Values

A place of help and hope. Collective action was needed to guarantee a fast and effective way to help refugees fleeing the war. Biedronka teamed with its partners to ensure that those in need were…

European Council President Charles Michel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visit Ukrainian-Polish border on March 2nd, 2022.

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Poland and the Migrants

The world was moved by Poland’s hospitality with Ukrainian refugees. Perhaps, for Poles, the war may be another form of Russian imperialism, but the fact is that this same war has dissipated differences and rekindled…

Juicy stories

Women Value

United by the desire to add value to Mozambique and be a source of inspiration…

Feeding Our Willpower

Making our current food systems sustainable means changing the way we produce and eat, while…

Agricultural Terraces and Grazing Fields Near Foz d'Egua, Piodao, Portugal

Mountains of Hope

In the green heart of Portugal, Serra do Açor was seriously affected by the 2017…

Beeing Alive

Over 75% of our food rely on pollinators. Without them, many crops wouldn’t exist and…

Bulldozer working on landfill with birds in the sky

Drowning in Garbage

Global waste is set to reach 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050, according to the World…

Xico Gaivota: what goes around comes around

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Dr. Scott Tinker’s interview: Finding the energy middle ground

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Heavy-duty mission: cleaning up the marine environment

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PAST ARTICLES

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Precious Seed

As climate crisis and worldwide conflicts place the food system at risk, seed banks safeguard biodiversity and are true guardians of national heritages. Portugal, Colombia and Poland are doing their part for the sake of future generations.

Two fishermen at sunset on the beach clean the fishing nets - in the background the colorful sky and seagulls in flight

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Net value

Saving the ocean, protecting the future. A human race against time, with global gains there for the taking. At Jerónimo Martins, the strategy for sustainable fishing and increasing investment in aquaculture are part of the Group’s contribution to the blue transition.

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Inclusion, valuing Difference

The pioneering Centro Incluir is the only one of its kind in Portugal and Europe that offers people with disabilities the chance to find their place in the labour market. And to make their dreams come true.

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Bairro Feliz

Launched by Pingo Doce, the Bairro Feliz project is aimed at contributing towards happier communities by supporting the locals’ causes. Filipa Pimentel, Sustainable Development and Local Impact Director of Pingo Doce, shares some happy stories that resulted from the project.

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Szlachetna Paczka

Set up in 2001, Szlachetna Paczka (the Noble Gift) is one of the most recognizable social projects in Poland. Arkadiusz Mierzwa, Corporate Communications and Sustainability Director of Biedronka, recounts the story of their partnership and its impact on the future of families in need.

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Misión Nutrición

Malnutrition is one of Colombia’s most serious public health challenges. Spearheaded by Ara, the Misión Nutrición programme emerged with the aim to contribute to a better nourished country. Andrea Jimeno, Corporate Communications Director at Ara, tells how the project is changing that reality.

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Fishing Nets and Ropes @Biedronka’s Shopping Cart

They are being taken out of the seas and oceans and transformed into shopping carts or trolleys at Biedronka stores.

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Briny Sea

An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea region is home to 85 million people from nine countries. They share a double challenge: managing the pressures that have been causing its degradation and ensuring the sustainability of this source of livelihood.

Filipe Duarte Santos portrait with a background shelf full of books

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“We Must Work as one People”

What if achieving the targets set in the Paris Agreement depends on the spirit of protecting humanity as a whole? This vision is sustained by Portuguese researcher and professor Filipe Duarte Santos, who was review editor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest report.

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May Our Will Never Melt

With the planet at its warmest in 125,000 years and greenhouse gas concentrations at record levels, the alarm bells on climate change are deafening. Unless immediate, large-scale action be taken, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach.

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A Fresh Start

The green lung breathes again. One year after its launch, the “Serra do Açor Forest” reforestation project sees great progress. More than 570,000 trees of fire-resistant species will have been planted by the end of 2022 with the support of Jerónimo Martins.

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A new Generation of Trees

A new forest: resilient to fires, sustainable and productive. This is “Floresta Serra do Açor” project’s final goal. In the first five years, 85% of the area to reforest will combine pine with native species. Most of them regenerate naturally after felling, thus ensuring continuity of the forest.

Wind turbine from different perspective.

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Renewing Guatemala

Guatemala’s first wind energy project, impacting communities and schools, is supported by Jerónimo Martins as a way of offsetting FEED’s carbon emissions.

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Heavy-duty Mission

For the first time, the Oceano Azul Foundation invited diving centres to join the 2020 International Coastal Cleanup, the world’s largest volunteer effort to clean up the marine environment. The iconic tall ship Santa Maria Manuela was the base for one of the campaigns.