The Municipality of Lousada, recognized in 2019 with the Transformative Action Award, has been a pioneer in Portugal for biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability best practices. The adoption of a sustainability strategy since 2014 has shown concrete results in different areas. It keeps inspiring us to replicate those actions daily and in different places.

WWF began its work in Portugal during the late 1990s. Over the years, it has assembled a multidisciplinary conservation, fundraising and communication team dedicated to preserving Portugal's natural assets. Therefore, ANP's main goals, in cooperation with WWF, are to conserve biodiversity and forest ecosystems, protect marine biodiversity, promote fisheries sustainability, and preserve freshwater ecosystems and water resources. ANP also intervenes in climate change and the promotion of sustainable consumption.

Under the motto "it's not just candles, it's experiences", our partner Nidore, coordinated by Mário and Miguel, was born to make it possible for the highest number of people to have handmade candles and diffusers that are vegan, ecological and sustainable at an affordable price. Nidore masters the art of creating fragrances and aromas in natural and vegetable wax to contribute to a better future and planet. In 2021, they started a new way to get their essences to customers' homes under the motto "no flame and no stress". You can know more details about this partnership we care about so much, here.

Catarina Barreiros is a digital influencer in sustainability with more than 75 thousand followers on social media. She describes herself as a former fast-fashion addict, sceptical of anything that seems like conspiracy theories or marketing scams. She also considers herself a "professional eye-roller" while watching documentaries about the environment and society and constantly tries to live a life without waste and with minimum footprint. She recognizes she fails every day to do so but keeps learning how to do it better. She is also CEO of doZero, an online store where she also promotes her lifestyle and shares the best tips with her followers.

E-REDES is an electricity distribution network in mainland Portugal, guaranteeing the supply of electricity to all consumers with quality, safety and efficiency, promoting the development of a distribution network enabled to support the energy transition and impartially ensure service availability for the market agents. Through its Social Investment Plan, E-REDES seeks to continually invest in projects that contribute to a good relationship with its stakeholders and society, namely regarding nature and biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services and a more integrated territory and vegetation management, energy transition and carbon neutrality. The “Preservar a Natureza” programme, meaning preserve nature, meets the need to protect the natural heritage and biodiversity by supporting organisations or projects that aim to (re)create and conserve natural and semi-natural areas to protect vulnerable species and enhance the supply of essential ecosystem services.

Reboot is a non-profit organisation created in 2020, a challenging year, with the mission to establish a community committed to the same goal, regardless of the pace. This commitment seeks to restore and promote a prosperous planet where humanity can cohabit with Nature.