Grupo BEL joined the Corporate Mobility Pact for Lisbon, in which it commits to adopt “measures so that the city of Lisbon has a safer, more accessible, ecological and efficient mobility systems as per the fundamental principles of collaboration, commitment, transparency and security”.

Grupo BEL has significantly increased its electric fleet, with the company Mistério da Terra S.A. holding one of the most modern fleets of electric cars in the country.

Every year, an average of more than two million km are made with renewable energy. All Administration and Direction vehicles are 100% electric and powered by photovoltaic solar panels.

Grupo BEL defends an ecological attitude towards energy consumption. In the distribution companies a strong investment in photovoltaic panels is being prepared so that the infrastructures energy consumption will be provided only by solar energy.

Recycling practices, efficiency in water use and paper consumption are also indicators of the Group’s commitment to efficient management aimed to reduce its ecological footprint.

The management of resources is one of the most important issues today. The search for solutions that translates into saving means and reducing expenses without compromising the quality of service presented is one of our main objectives.

The Grupo BEL has developed a process of card and plastic reuse in order to defend the environment. In the future, it also aims to adopt a Zero Waste policy, recycling and/or reusing all its resources and waste.

Following its 20th anniversary conference, Grupo BEL made a commitment to plant a tree for each guest at the event. In partnertship with Plantar Uma Árvore, the group will plant, between the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022, a hundred trees integrated in projects for the conservation and promotion of the native forest and the sustainability of the biodiversity of native species.

The estimated average carbon sequestration potential for a 100-tree forest plot in Portugal is around 60 ton CO2.