Brussels Environment

Brussels Environment is responsible for designing and implementing regional policies in all matters related to the environment. Every day, its teams work to make Brussels a more pleasant and sustainable region for everyone who lives, works, or stays there.

Brussels Environment operates in various areas and intervenes in a cross-cutting and sustainable manner to promote a more ecological, ethical, and socially just society.

Protecting air, water, energy, the Forêt de Soignes and green spaces, nature and biodiversity, animal welfare and soil.

Plan and manage waste and resources, promote the circular economy, encourage sustainable production, consumption and construction, maintain green spaces, natural areas and non-navigable waterways, reduce noise pollution and exposure to electromagnetic waves.

By coordinating regional action

Architects, biologists, green space managers, landscape architects, legal experts, project managers... The professions practised at Bruxelles Environnement are very varied and are organised around 4 divisions.

To design, develop, maintain and preserve the Region's green spaces, natural areas, forests and waterways.

To mobilise, advise and stimulate the changes in behaviour that are essential if environmental policies are to succeed.

To develop expertise in collecting, managing and making available environmental data.

To prepare and draft regulations, issue environmental permits and administrative authorisations in accordance with the legal framework, and monitor and inspect environmental legislation.