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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…
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Dirty Streaming: The Carbon Footprint of the Internet
Any activity we carry out on the Internet has its environmental footprint, a footprint that grows with more intensive data consumption such as watching series or movies or online gaming. All this requires the support of data centers that consume a large amount of energy that, at the moment, is obtained mainly from fossil fuels….
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The insurrection of the establishment
The need to include a new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), that of “attitudinal change”, has been mentioned for some time. Change of attitude regarding coexistence, values, the development model, and, ultimately, about any human action that ends up having an impact on the Environment. It seems that the 18th ODS has arrived in a somewhat…