Fighting climate change and supporting a circular economy and environmental protection

Elia has embedded environmental targets into its activities to ensure that it is actively contributing to the energy transition, limiting the impact of its activities on the environment and climate change, embedding the concept of circularity and boosting biodiversity around its facilities.

Our environmental targets
   
Climate Action
  • Enabling decarbonisation of the power sector
  • Reaching carbon neutrality in system operation by 2040
  • Reaching carbon neutrality in our own activities by 2030
  • Moving towards carbon neutral value chain for new assets and construction works
Environment and Circular Economy
  • We are committed to protect nature, foster biodiversity and embed circularity

Mitigating the effects of climate change and air emissions

Elia is taking actions to enable the decarbonisation of the power sector, control and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in order to achieve a successful energy transition. Learn more about the different ways Elia is fighting climate change by clicking on the links below.

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Preserving and strengthening biodiversity and ecosystems

It is possible to reconcile the transmission of electricity with biodiversity. Our different initiatives prove it. Learn more about the ways Elia is preserving biodiversity.

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Green procurement

Elia is committed to limit the environmental impact of its purchases. Moreover, strong ethical principles are also embedded into its procurement processes.

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Environmental policy and management system

Elia has developed an environmental governance programme. This defines Elia's environmental mission, outlines its responsibilities and demonstrates its commitment to sustainable development.

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Reducing environmental impact and encouraging circularity

Environmental impacts of our business are carefully identified, measured, avoided as much as possible, mitigated and compensated. . We are actively working towards embedding circularity into our core business processes with regard to recycling as well as with regard to the integration of eco-design principles.

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Electric and magnetic fields

Electricity transmission generates very low-frequency electric and magnetic fields (50 Hertz).

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