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Presentation of the drafting service of the partial territorial plan of álava central
Naider presents its candidacy in collaboration with a network of collaborators and two renowned companies such as Paisaje Transversal and LandLab for the revision of the Partial Territorial Plan (PTP) of the functional area of Álava Central. The current PTP (2004) must contemplate different aspects of the current reality, both legal and socioeconomic and territorial….
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Europe shows its cards to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
The European Green Deal is the new growth strategy for Europe. It pursues economic growth decoupled from carbon emissions through the integration of the ecological variable in all strategic policies. In recent years, a major effort has been made to decarbonise the European economy, which has led the continent to achieve practically all the objectives…
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Noise: Invisible and forgotten pollution
Citizens are increasingly aware that a polluted environment is detrimental to the environment and to human health. In Euskadi as in Europe, today’s cities are far from those industrial cities where soil, water and air were visibly contaminated. It is no longer so common to see columns of smoke coming out of industrial areas or…
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A tenth “r” to help move towards a circular economic model.
When we talk about the Circular Economy, practically anyone person who has inquired a little about the subject, will come to mind the nine “R”s. Like when we first learned the prepositions, these r’s are the abc’s of the circular economy and not just memorize them but understand and internalize them, seems to be a…
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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,…