Sustainability

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Precious Seed

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.

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Net value

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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“We Must Work as one People”

“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

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 new Generation of Trees

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.

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Renewing Guatemala

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

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.

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Barometer of Life: how many species are threatened with extinction? 

Barometer of Life: how many species are threatened with extinction? 

More than 45,000 species are threatened with extinction, representing 28% of all animal and plant life assessed to date. What is behind this threat?

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SOS Pollinators

SOS Pollinators

The “SOS Pollinators” campaign was launched in 2015 to raise public awareness on the importance of pollinators. Quercus vice-president, Nuno Sequeira, details the campaign’s multiple initiatives.