The Biodiversity Foundation, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, with the collaboration of Keiretsu Forum Spain, has organized the II Green Investment Forum, which was held in Madrid. This initiative is part of the Empleaverde Programme, co-financed by the European Social Fund.
The objective of this meeting was the presentation of projects or business ideas of the Emprendeverde Network to investors in order to channel investment towards innovative and sustainable projects.
The Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment, Guillermina Yanguas, opened this meeting, where she pointed out that “investors are the key to the green economy ceasing to be a beautiful theoretical concept and taking on a charter of nature”. Yanguas reiterated that the “entrepreneurs we know today, and the many more who are trying to make their way, are the best example of our country’s ability to emerge from the crisis stronger and reinvent itself”.
In this sense, the Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment stressed that “we have to rethink the traditional production model; and betting on global solutions that tackle problems in a comprehensive way. We have understood that we can turn environmental challenges into a source of employment and prosperity.”
At the meeting, which took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, a total of seven entrepreneurs from the Emprendeverde Network were able to present their environmental initiatives to more than forty investors. The business initiatives belong to various sectors such as Fluff Company, a company that creates children’s entertainment products aimed at transmitting child psychology through technology, eco-design and social values; Glen Biotech, dedicated to the development of biotechnological tools to address agricultural problems with sustainable and innovative solutions; Aykos Europe, a company that develops a sustainable and innovative construction system, based on modulation, prefabrication and industrialization, more profitable and respectful of the environment; and Tohqi Europe, dedicated to the manufacture and marketing of electric vehicles (especially motorcycles), both nationally and internationally, as well as their spare parts and accessories.
On the other hand, innovative initiatives have been presented such as Eggnovo, a commercial eggshell exploitation, which uses this waste as by-products for cosmetics or drugs through its own technology; Agua de Niebla de Canarias, a company dedicated to the development of systems for obtaining water in a sustainable way from fogs and which produces the first bottled water obtained from fog water; and Domoalert, a platform that provides security and energy saving services for the home managed directly by the user through their mobile devices.
During the closing of the event, Sonia Castañeda, Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, presented the Award for the best valued project, which has gone to the Agua de Niebla initiative.
