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Standardising Environmental Assessment – Supply Chain through Environmental Footprinting

4.45PM – 4.55PM REEF – A common framework in the Environmental Footprint
4.55PM – 5.05PM The Environmental Footprint – Value Chain Response
5.05PM – 5.15PM The Integrated Assessment on the MT – CPrV and Critical Issues
5.15PM – 5.30PM Round Table – Challenges and opportunities of integrated environmental assessment

Moderator: Dagny Eline Vidal, environmental technician in Circularity and Decarbonization. Grunver Sostenibilidad

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Circular Initiatives – Micro strategies with meso impact

4.00PM – 4.10PM CIRCUMETRIC – Evaluación de proyectos Circulares
4.10PM – 4.20PM CTI 3.0 – Evaluación a nivel meso
4.20PM – 4.30PM Circularidad Eólica – De la reparación a la reingeniería de multiplicadoras
4.30PM – 4.45PM Mesa redonda – Retos y oportunidades de la circularidad como instrumento de comunicación y reporte ambiental

Moderador: Roberto Campo Almeida, coordinador Ecoinnovación. Grunver Sostenibilidad

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Challenges for implementing an environmental labelling scheme in the food and beverage sector

1.00PM – 1.05PM Welcome and introduction to the session
  • Cristina Rodríguez, responsible for Sustainability. Eroski
1.05PM – 2.30PM Round table: Vision and challenges in the food and beverage value chain

Moderator: Cristina Rodríguez, responsible for Sustainability. Eroski

Speakers:

  • Environmental Labeling approach from the Basque Government

    Raúl Pérez, director of Quality and Food Industries. Basque Government

  • ENVIROSCORE: Promoting sustainable food production and consumption

    Jaime Zufia, coordinator of Efficient and Sustainable Processes. Azti

  • Genuine consumer transparency with Planet-score: how pioneering companies engage and get the market moving towards sustainability

    Sabine Bonnot, president. ITAB (Institute of agriculture and organic food of France)

  • Environmental labeling as an improvement tool

    Karmele Pikabea, Commercial manager. Euskaber

  • Transparency in environmental communication: Eroski’s experience

    Alejandro Martínez, director of Health, Sustainability and Quality. Eroski

  • Environmental information: help or brake for consumers?

    Carmen Redondo, director of Institutional Relations. HISPACOOP (Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Consumidores y Usuarios)

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2A CHALLENGE – AUDITORIUM: SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALISED CONSTRUCTION

Industrialised construction is a natural market trend that significantly reduces the environmental impact and improves the quality and the maintenance throughout the life of the buildings.

Apart from improving the work conditions, it facilitates the introduction of new features in the materials and enables a circular deconstruction, thus reducing the life cycle cost.

The demand of developers already exists. However, the necessary structural changes to deploy industrialised construction come up against cultural barriers and a value chain that must innovate to manufacture new materials, components and 2D-3D modules.

The proposed European Construction Materials Directive, along with the Digital Product Passport, may contribute to the differentiation and growth of this sector based on ecoinnovation.

Can we harness the opportunity of new materials and of the new industrialisation process that this new construction era needs?

Expert speaker: Iñigo Vegas, director de Productos de Construcción & Bio-basados. Tecnalia BRTA

Moderator: Aitor Saez de Cortazar, responsable de Construcción Sostenible. Ihobe, Public Environmental Management Company. Basque Government

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2B CHALLENGE – ROOMS 1+2: SECONDARY STEEL AND ALUMINIUM

75% of the steel and over 23% of the aluminium used by Basque industry come from recycled sources. The environmental footprint of recycled steel and aluminium is reduced to 30% and 7%, respectively, compared to virgin material.

The European Commission’s instruments – such as the IED with the Best Available Techniques, the forthcoming incorporation of metal products in the Ecodesign Directive, the deployment of a new European CBAM for importing steel and aluminium with high carbon footprints -, along with the environmental commitments of the leading business corporations, are generating a demand for steel and aluminium products with greater content of recycled material.

This increases the price of quality scrap materials and requires greater technology to be able to manufacture using secondary materials of poorer quality. In the Basque Country, there is a growing business demand for recycled material, an advanced metal industry, a cutting-edge technological offer and an equipment supply industry with potential to provide efficient and ecoinnovative solutions to obtain the maximum value from lower quality scrap.

Are we witnessing an ecoinnovative transformation initiative to manufacture high quality recycled steel and aluminium using low-cost scrap?

Expert speaker: Asier Vicente, Head of Primary & EAF Decarbonization in ArcelorMittal Global R&D Spain and Coordinator of the Electric Arc Furnace Global R&D program. ArcelorMittal

Moderator: Ander Elgorriaga, responsible for eco-innovation. Ihobe, Public Environmental Management Company. Basque Government

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2C CHALLENGE – ROOM 4 HALL: TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION

The international Climate Change Adaptation context requires regions to develop its plans to minimise climate risks in coastal, river, agri-forestry, urban areas and in critical infrastructures.

The most important instruments for a faster response to this challenge include spatial planning, with its Sector and Partial Territorial Plans, green public procurement and demand for the most affected business sectors.

A comprehensive response requires the cooperation of stakeholders to manage and simulate data, assess the most appropriate social, economic and environmental innovative solutions, to then implement them and ensure a comprehensive follow-up.

Appropriate climate governance through transformation initiatives such as Urban Klima 2050 is already constructing demonstration projects to position an ecoinnovative offer.

Can we create an offer of advanced comprehensive solutions, that are environmentally and economically optimum, to reduce climate risks in local environments?

Expert speaker: Jorge Paz Jiménez, senior investigator. Unidad de Transición Energética, Climática y Urbana. Tecnalia BRTA

Moderator: Mª Luz Gómez, responsable de Proyectos de Acción Climática. Ihobe, Public Environmental Management Company. Basque Government

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