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  • #cop25: time to act

    “It is time to act” So says the motto of the World Climate Summit 2019 (COP25) that will take place in IFEMA, Madrid, from December 2 to 13. With less than four days to go before the event begins, at NAIDER we are already warming up our engines and preparing to attend COP25 and participate…

  • Indartu 2019 program – budget expansion

    The Department of Economic Development and Infrastructures of the Basque Government has communicated the extension of the budget credit of the Indartu 2019 Program that allocates aid to companies that make productive investment that leads to competitive improvement and economic development, to boost the Left Bank Ría del Nervión and Oiartzualdea Zones and other municipalities…

  • Transforming the basque country into a sustainable city-region

    This Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 November 2019 NAIDER has attended the XVIII EuskalHiria Congress 2019 , which took place at the Kursaal Auditorium in Donostia-San Sebastián. The congress focused on the presentation of the new Urban Agenda for Euskadi – Bultzatu 2050, which promotes a reflection on the territory and the city from a…

  • The measure of the Sustainable Development of the countries

    The GDP It’s like the speedometer: it tells you if the economy is going fast or slow, but it doesn’t show you if you’re on the right track, or if the car’s tank is running out of gas. In the search for ways to measure economic progress that are alternatives to GDP – which also…

  • How do we design cities to improve Climatic Comfort?

    Cities suffer from the so-called Heat Island effect whereby the temperature inside the city is higher than it should be. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of the influence of the heat island on human health and many cities are already beginning to change their way of designing the city to take into account the…

  • Euskadi is in debt to the world

    Yesterday the Basque Government made public the Ecological Footprint of the Basque Country. Report that has had the technical assistance from NAIDER following the calculation standards international. From this report it can be concluded that, despite certain advances, the Basque Country continues to be a debtor territory. The consumption of the Basque population, as well…

  • Naturalization workshop at the upv-ehu

    Last Tuesday, NAIDER went to the public university of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) to hold a talk-workshop with third-year Environmental Science students. The session entitled Management of sustainable cities and naturalization design workshop allowed the students to be introduced to the main global challenges in terms of urbanism and the environment. Specifically, they learned how…

  • Wooden towers, an alternative to glass and concrete

    We may see wooden skyscrapers in the next decade, says Centre for Natural Materials Innovation at the University of Cambridge. The construction of wooden buildings can respond to a double challenge: provide habitability solutions to a growing world population that increasingly moves to the cities, and do so with constructions that do not further contribute…

  • What would a city designed by women look like?

    Urban planning conditions the functioning of the city and its inhabitants. To date, those who have planned cities have been mostly men of working age thinking about the needs of men of working age. This has triggered in today’s cities, zoned into production areas and rest areas connected by heavily motorized mobility. To start getting…

  • #cop25: last stop for laggarers, climate summit, madrid, december 2019

    The success of the international strategy regarding climate change will be measured in degrees. The objective is based on preventing the average temperature of the atmosphere from rising above 2ºC compared to what existed in pre-industrial times. To do this, we must reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: the higher the level…