The Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Guillermina Yanguas, inaugurated today, in Madrid, the ninth Emprendeverde Meeting “Ecodesign and green entrepreneurship”, organized by the Ministry’s Biodiversity Foundation to support business entrepreneurship in the environmental sector and promote the circular economy.

The meeting, which was also attended by the Director of Institutional Relations and Adhered Companies of Ecoembes, Begoña de Benito, and the Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, is one of the actions planned within the framework of the “Eco-Recinnova Entrepreneurship Program“, a cycle of activities developed in collaboration with Ecoembes, to promote the creation and consolidation of companies or new lines of business in the field of eco-design, recycling and eco-innovation.

During the meeting, innovative experiences in the field of eco-design and the prevention of environmental impact were presented. Thus, experts and entrepreneurs who are members of the Emprendeverde Network such as Nicola Cerantola, from Ecologing; Carles Martínez, from Inèdit; Jordi Mayals, from L’estoc; Rafael Aparicio, from Biomival; Rubén Canerero, from IK Ingeniería, and Ignacio Bautista, from CartonLab, have shown their activity in this sector.

The “Emprendeverde Meetings” are training and networking micro-events aimed at entrepreneurs of the Emprendeverde Network, the first platform specialized in green business aimed at entrepreneurs and investors in order to promote the creation and consolidation of companies or new lines of business in activities related to the environment and channel investment towards sustainable economic activities.

More than 300 entrepreneurs have already participated in the eight previous “Emprendeverde Meetings”, which have dealt with topics as diverse as water, the circular economy or sustainable mobility. In total, more than 38 entrepreneurs have shown their products and services in the three “emprendeverde marketplaces” organized by the Network, which already has nearly 7,000 members.