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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…
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The renewable energy installation does not escape the Covid19 crisis
The good results in 2019 and the proliferation of currents that advocate a green and sustainable way out of the pandemic, does not seem to save renewable energy from the hit of Covid19. The International Energy Agency (IEA) published this week its report, where a drop is expected global year-on-year of 13% of new renewable…
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First Law of Climate Change
After several initiatives and attempts to approve a Law of State Climate Change, it seems that the one raised by the Ministry of Transition Ecological and Demographic Challenge will be the definitive one. The Council of Ministers has given the go-ahead to the Climate Change Law that seeks to decarbonize the economy and Spanish society…
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The disappearance of the car in the confined city
It is estimated that in Europe close to 80% of the urban road surface is occupied by private transport and only 20% by people and collective transport. Classical urbanism has followed an urban model oriented towards mobility based on separate cities based on the uses of space: dormitory neighborhoods, industrial zones, commercial areas, sports zones,…
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Nature has no price, but assigning it helps to preserve it
Definition of valuation: Recognizing, estimating or appreciating the value or merit of something. Evaluation is inseparable from decision making. When we make a decision it means that we have previously carried out a Value judgment. Many times this assessment occurs in our subconscious, so we do not realize that we have done it. A article…