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  • Naider joins the #odséate campaign

    Naider joins the #ODSéate campaign, launched by the High Commissioner for the 2030 Agenda, to help disseminate and promote compliance with the 2030 Agenda and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the global goals that world leaders adopted in 2015 to eradicate poverty, protect the planet and ensure…

  • And you, how do you move?

    This week the European Mobility Week is celebrated, aimed at raising awareness, both among political leaders and citizens, about the negative consequences of the irrational use of the car in the city. Central Madrid, the Superblocks, the Almendra Peatonal de Pontevedra, Vitoria, Paris, Amsterdam… more and more cities are determined to eliminate cars and reconquer…

  • Aid for Local Sustainability

    The Basque Government offers a A series of grants aimed at Town Halls and other local entities, so that they can carry out projects and actions related to sustainable development. The deadline to request them is about to end, we invite you not to miss this opportunity. These aids allow carrying out plans, programs and…

  • Pioneering postgraduate course in Industrial Circular Economy in the Basque Country

    The University of the Basque Country and the Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government launch the first state postgraduate degree in Circular Economy with an industrial approach, the third of its kind in Europe. The postgraduate course entitled “University Specialization in Circular Economy: Application to business” is will take…

  • Vitoria-Gasteiz, Global Green City Award

    Vitoria-Gasteiz has been awarded the Global Green City Award 2019 by the Global Forum on Human Settlements, an organization sponsored by the UN, at its annual event held on September 6 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). For the deliberation of this award, the candidate cities are evaluated based on 85 indicators aligned with the Sustainable Development…

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Political problem, political solution?

    News about the impacts that climate change is beginning to have on the natural environment and our society continue to increase. The problem with climate change is that the possible solutions or ways of addressing it proposed have been simplifying. So much so that all we have to do is develop the technology to stop…

  • The monomaterial alternative to tetra brik

    The brand Finnish company Arla Oy has introduced packaging that uses wood-derived bioplastic for its milk products, replacing the inner layers of polyethylene and aluminum plastic found in tetra briks. This innovation responds to calls for the use of single-material containers, which are more easily recyclable than composite ones. Arla’s new single-material containers use an…

  • R&D investment variation

    The 2019 Report of the COTEC Foundation highlights that Spain has lost its way in innovation compared to Europe, with Spain, Finland and Portugal being the only states that have not recovered the levels of investment in R&D prior to the crisis. At the same time, the increase in investment in R&D in Europe (22%…

  • Sustainable alternatives to concrete

    Concrete is the most common construction material, but its production is the source of about 8% of CO2 emissions in the world. In these videos, Euronews and BM1 respectively show us innovations that even lead to carbon negative solutions.

  • The Carbon Footprint of Transportation

    In recent times, in view of the verification of the climate emergency, there are several calls that urge us to reduce the number of air travel, or even eliminate them. However, the plane is generally the means of transport with the highest carbon footprint – a London-New York flight, for example, produces about 986 kg…