The Entorno-BCSD Spain Foundation has presented the “Business Solutions” collection, five notebooks published as a proposal for public policies to encourage effective business management of water, waste, air quality, climate change, and biodiversity.

The Entorno-BCSD Spain Foundation has presented the “Business Solutions” collection, five notebooks published as a proposal for public policies to encourage effective business management of water, waste, air quality, climate change, and biodiversity.

In collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation, the Fundación Entorno -BCSD Spain includes a total of 149 initiatives developed by the companies participating in the project: ENDESA, ELCOGAS, ENCE, GAMESA, HOLCIM, INDRA, OHL, FYM Italcementi Group, LAFARGE, ROCA, ROCKWOOL and SOLVAY. Proposals that reflect a set of measures to promote savings and growth, as well as the development of employment in companies, meeting the demand for technologies and models to contribute to the effective management of available resources, after an exhaustive analysis carried out and taking into account the impositions marked by Europe.

In this way, each notebook establishes a “roadmap” to 2030 with proposals and ideas for the widespread application of technologies, as well as various possibilities for collaboration between the public and private sectors for the establishment of effective solutions around the five main themes. In relation to the area of air quality, the publications point to the need to establish greater efforts in urban centers to improve it, while in the waste sector attention is demanded to the integral flow of materials for the most effective management of them. The economic valuation of the environmental services offered by ecosystems will be a key point in improving biodiversity conservation, as well as the articulation of finalist taxes in relation to climate change, and the search for growth alternatives with less dependence on water.

In this sense, among the key objectives of these public policies are the need to define objectives that make the short and medium term “predictable”, as well as indicators to measure the effectiveness of these policies and justify their possible changes, the active involvement of citizens, the use of taxation as an instrument to change the rules of the market and legal obligations for the creation of more sustainable economies of scale. In the same way, the creation of collaborative plans between the public and private sectors to shorten periods of return on investment and administrative coordination is a priority, as indicated in the Royal Decree Law of May 2012 on urgent measures in the field of the environment, which seeks to simplify and streamline the administrative burdens of environmental regulations.

“This collection invites dialogue and debate between the private sector, public administrations and civil society,” said the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, in relation to these publications.

To consult the five notebooks of the “Business Solutions” collection, click here.