Sustainable Event Managemeng: 2025 General Shareholders' Meeting
This year we once again guarantee the sustainability of our General Meeting of Shareholders
On the occasion of the upcoming General Shareholders' Meeting, we have maintained our commitments in the area of sustainable management of events to contribute, promote and raise awareness of the importance and impact of sustainability, ensuring that this commitment, led and driven by Iberdrola, increasingly belongs to everyone.
Sustainable Event
The 2025 GSM is certified as a sustainable event according to ISO 20121:2024, reflecting our company's commitment to sustainability, which also extends to event management.
We work to ensure that our corporate events have a positive impact on the community from an economic, environmental and social point of view. To this end, we promote the following initiatives:
Improving the accessibility of events
- Live broadcast
- Multi-language
- Audio-description, sign language and subtitling*
- 100 % accessible location
- Promoting remote participation
Minimising the environmental impact of events
- 100 % renewable energy
- Waste segregation and recovery
- Emissions offset project
- Green purchasing criteria
- Re-use of materials
Now, more than ever, let's be sustainable
Increasing awareness in the area of sustainability
- Acting as driving force on main suppliers
- Analysis and communication of the environmental impact of events
- Awareness-raising for suppliers and event participants
- Communication campaigns aimed at employees
Helping the local community
- Promoting the entry of young people into the job market, facilitating their first professional experience
- Promoting equality in recruitment of staff
* Available for Spanish version
SEE INFOGRAPHIC: 2024 General Shareholders' Meeting Sustainable Event [PDF]
For yet another year, we are maintaining our sustainable event management model, with the aim of contributing to, promoting and raising awareness of the importance of sustainability and its impact on the 2025 General Shareholders' Meeting, making this commitment more and more collective.
The three keys for the General Shareholders' Meeting to be a sustainable event are:
Be aware of and respond to the needs of our Stakeholders.
Maintain with our suppliers a relationship based on trust and engagement.
Implement a rigorous monitoring process that allows for the evaluation of its performance and continuous improvement of the sustainability of our events.
For the tenth consecutive year, the General Shareholders‘ Meeting has been awarded the Erronka Garbia seal in recognition of the work in reducing the environmental impacts associated with the holding of this event. As every year, after the event, the ’Environmental Declaration of the Event’ (DAE) is published, detailing the strategies for environmental improvement in activities, products and services related to the celebration of the event. The latest Environmental Statement of the General Shareholders' Meeting (Spanish version) [PDF] is available with the results of the GSM24.
If you would like to learn more about our sustainable Meeting, write to us at sustainable.events@iberdrola.com.
Pioneers in sustainable event management
In 2016 we decided to certify our General Shareholders' Meeting as a sustainable event, based on the ISO 20121:2012 standard [PDF]External link, opens in new window., becoming the first IBEX 35 company and the first electric utility, among the 10 largest in the world, to achieve it.
In 2020 we led the way once again by extending and encompassing our three main corporate events in a single sustainable event certificate: the General Shareholders' Meeting, the Results Presentation and the Capital Markets Day.
As proof of our commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement, we have once again expanded the sustainable events management system in 2024. Following the renewal of the certification of our sustainable events management model in 2023, the Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification (AENOR) has awarded the ISO 20121:2024 certification for sustainable events [PDF] to the General Shareholders' Meeting, the Results Presentations and Capital Markets Day.
Also since 2016, the General Shareholders' Meeting has been certified with the Ihobe environmental seal (Basque Government), Erronka Garbia.
Iberdrola's event sustainability management system
Our event sustainability management system includes four strategic lines, seven objectives and specific actions for each event:
Improve accessibility to events
Ensure they are accessible by absolutely everyone.
Minimise the environmental impact of events
Reduce the amount of waste generated and improve the recoverability thereof, reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption, as well as reduce the indirect environmental impact (environmental footprint) derived from events.
Help the local community
Favour the entry of young people into the job market, facilitating their first professional experience.
Increase sustainability awareness
Among all the staff participating in or affected by the events held, as well as improve the communication and participation processes during the conduct of the events.
Since 2016 the General Shareholders' Meeting has also been certified with the environmental seal of the Basque Government, Erronka Garbia.