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Investment in business competitiveness, the most effective recipe to advance in the ecological transition
The COVID19 pandemic has brought with it an unprecedented impact on the economy due to the need to completely paralyze the productive system to eradicate its expansion. The distancing and confinement measures have also significantly affected directly for consumption, generating a scenario of uncertainty and mistrust. In the scope environment, there has been a turning…
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Eco-labeling and environmental management systems in Basque companies
The ecological transition is already a reality, both because of its prevailing necessity and because of its incipient materialization. The business world cannot, and should not, stay aside from this phenomenon. Companies have reasons not to be left behind and start moving. For responsibility social, companies, as social agents that are also must contribute with…
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Opportunities for the use of industrial residual heat
The need to improve energy efficiency in the industrial sector is unquestionable. Is about a sector that approximately consumes a third of the world’s demand for energy, mostly fossil fuels. An energy source whose consumption massive and progressive exhaustion can lead to situations of increases in prices and energy insecurities. For the industrial sector to…
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Resilient Cities and local sovereignties
Cities must be green, sustainable, intelligent, welcoming, healthy and a long etcetera more than adjectives that day by day add to the planning and management of this. One of that adjective is RESILIENT. The cities have to be resilient, this is one of the premises increasingly recurring in urban planning or local management. The concept…
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We already recycle, and now what?
There are images that speak for themselves. Every day it is sold all over the world the equivalent to a stack of plastic bottles half the size of the Eiffel Tower: drinks, yoghurts, cutlery, sauces, fruit trays, shampoo bottles… Plastic does not leave everyday parcels untouched, and the The problem is that even recycling doesn’t…
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THE SDGs, DIRECT VICTIMS OF COVID19
On June 30, 2020, the annual report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was published, under the title “The Sustainable Development Goals and Covid-19”. The report, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), provides an overview of the progress made so far around the 17 SDGs. Among the main messages that emerge,…
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the international commitment to CO2 Neutrality
One of the great challenges of our generation is Climate Change, which will bring natural disasters of great magnitude, affecting the health of the population, the balance of ecosystems and the world economy. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing faster than the international community has…
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY: IN THE COMPANY AND AT HOME
The Circular Economy can be presented as a complex concept and understood as something excessively generic or abstract. It can be seen as something external and foreign, as well as difficult to understand and even more so to apply. With this little text we are going to clarify such a well-known term. And we will…
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The sustainable region: searching for asterix’s magic potion
“All the Gaul is occupied by the Romans… All of it? No! A village populated by irreducible Gauls still and always resist the invader” It is well known that the economy and the environment are in continuous conflict. The economy doesn’t has the appropriate internal mechanisms to sustainably manage the nature. It seems logical, taking…
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Eco-innovation as a lever to promote competitiveness and ecological transition
When we talk about Eco-innovation, to find the first references we must go back to 1998 in the book by Claud Fussler and Peter James. In it, the authors gave it a connotation of social advancement. Today, one can already speak of an established concept that has greater precision. Translated to the business world and…