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Our Environmental
Commitments and Priorities

A Successful Energy Transition is Essential to Fight Climate Change

Actively engaged in this fight alongside our partners and the communities that host our projects, we put forward innovative initiatives and solutions to accelerate the development of renewable energies while respecting living beings and their habitats.

Our Environmental Actions

Worker looking at a sunset on a solar farm

01.

Use Resources Responsibly

We continue to implement reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery initiatives, including an analysis of how non-hazardous waste is managed at our operating sites. We also aim to repair defective parts on our equipment rather than systematically replacing them to reduce GHG emissions and waste production.

02.

Respect and Protect Biodiversity

Biodiversity issues are considered right from the design stage of our projects in order to minimize impacts on the environment. From the design phase of our projects, local ecological considerations are taken into account to minimize environmental impacts. From construction to operation, measures are implemented to contribute to nature preservation, and we assess the performance of technologies and processes to protect biodiversity.

 

Ecologue observant la nature
Barrage hydro vu du ciel

03.

Limit Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

Combating climate change is at the heart of our mission. As a producer of electricity from 100% renewable sources, we actively participate in this transition. Our commitment to becoming net-zero by 2050 across our entire value chain is science-based and aligned with a trajectory to meet the goals set by the Paris Agreement.

 

Our Sustainability News

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Limekiln Wind Farm environment surroundings Scotland

Our Environmental Progress in 2025

The battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Hagersville

 was named Innovative Canadian Clean Power Project of the Year by the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA),

Launch of several initiatives to achieve our greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets

validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Development of a biodiversity charter and a biodiversity booklet in France

to structure, formalize, strengthen, and showcase our biodiversity commitments. 

Construction of our first wind farm in Scotland, Limekiln

with a subcontractor and a manufacturer with SBTi-validated emissions targets, making the project a three-way partnership actively committed to a net-zero* pathway.

Our Sustainability Efforts

*Boralex’s greenhouse gases reduction targets are validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), confirming a net-zero commitment of limiting warming to 1.5oC by 2050 and based on science.