Investing in the planet
Investing in sustainable finance is fundamental to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We need to make investments that have an impact, not just on a company's bottom line, but on society as a whole.

Episode 9 – Sustainable Finance

In the last episode of our podcast, three experts explain, over 45 minutes, what sustainable finance is, what concepts such as ESG factors and impact investing mean and how sustainable investments can help promote sustainable development and mitigate climate change.

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Catarina Barreiros

Catarina Barreiros

Founder & CEO of Do Zero

Catarina Barreiros

Founder & CEO of Do Zero

Graduated with a major in Architecture and with a master's degree in Management, she was a fashion stylist and worked in Digital Marketing, in a luxury product company, and in a pharmaceutical company. The documentary Cowspiracy and a conference on Zero Waste generated the first concerns with sustainability. She created the blog Do Zero and today seeks to live with the minimal ecological footprint possible.

Nuno Brito Jorge

Nuno Brito Jorge

Founder GoParity

Nuno Brito Jorge

Founder GoParity

With a degree in Engineering from Universidade Católica, sustainability has always been a part of its career. He has worked with the European Parliament and EDP. In 2013 he founded Coopérnico, a cooperative for renewable energies, of which he is still the president. In 2017 he created GoParity, a crowdfunding platform that supports sustainable energy projects. He is a member of the Board at RESCOOP, a European federation for renewable energy.

 Gilda Caetano

Gilda Caetano

EDP's Sustainability Department

Gilda Caetano

EDP's Sustainability Department

Graduated in Economics and with a post-graduation in Environmental Studies from ISEG, she began her professional career at the Ministry of Planning and Territorial Administration. Soon after that, in 1988, she joined EDP, where she has been working as an economist for more than three decades. Especially since 2005, her work has been focusing on sustainable finance at EDP's Sustainability Department.

EDP's role

We are committed to investing in sustainable projects that have a positive impact on the planet and society. 

Web series Generation Zero
Testimonies from families with inspiring sustainable practices.

It was a concern for the impact of his existence that led Roberto Marques, a 37-year-old mountain man, to sustainable finance. First as a way of investing his money, then to open up prospects for his three godchildren. The simplest path might be to deposit money in an account, but for Roberto, the important thing is not the easiest path, but rather the one that can help change the world.