This Saturday, March 22, is World Water Day, a date established by the UN General Assembly to raise awareness of the importance and sustainable management of freshwater. This year 2025 focuses on the preservation of glaciers with its motto being “Conservation of glaciers”. At the 36th UN-Water Meeting held in 2022, UN-Water Members and Partners […]
March 4 marks World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, proclaimed by UNESCO in 2019 during its 40th General Conference. This day aims to highlight the fundamental role of engineering in building a sustainable future. The date coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in 1968, a key […]
Today, September 25, we commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals, adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, have been the overarching framework for addressing the greatest challenges of our time: from poverty and inequalities to tackling climate change and building more just […]
The Ministry of Industry and Tourism has established the regulatory bases for the granting of aid to industrial projects in the agri-food sector, within the framework of the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of the Agri-food Sector (PERTE Agri-food). These grants, granted on a non-competitive basis, seek to promote innovation and sustainability […]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) has published the regulatory bases for aid for the processing industry in the fisheries and aquaculture sector, framed in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR). It is expected that before the end of the summer the call for applications for aid for the year 2024 will […]
Today, 5 June, is World Environment Day, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This day was first established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. Its main objective is to raise awareness and promote actions to achieve progress in environmental matters. This year, World Environment Day focuses on restoring lands, halting desertification […]
Today, March 22, is World Water Day, a day proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 to raise awareness of the importance of water as a fundamental resource that sustains life on our planet. From oceans to rivers and lakes, water is indispensable for human well-being, agriculture, industry, and ecosystems. People’s daily lives have […]
World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, designated by UNESCO in 2019, is celebrated on 4 March to raise awareness and visibility of the importance of the engineering sector in meeting the environmental and sustainable development challenges of the future. This year’s theme is “Engineering solutions for a sustainable world”. Engineering is the conjunction of the […]
The draft Order establishing the regulatory bases for aid for integrated action for the decarbonization of the manufacturing industry as part of the PERTE for Industrial Decarbonization within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan has been published, with an early call for applications for 2024. This regulation articulates the first of the […]
The European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 legislative package aligns EU climate, energy, transport, and taxation policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, and to reach climate neutrality by 2050. From IDP we are providing technical assistance in various projects on the development of […]
For years, the amount of plastic waste in the oceans and seas has been steadily increasing. “If we don’t change the way we produce and use plastics, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050”. This is what Frans Timmermans, vice-president first of the European Commission and in charge of leading […]
The International Recycling Day reminds us of the urgency of saving the seas full of plastic, the trees that cannot breathe and the animals that have been left homeless. On May 17, the International Recycling Day is celebrated, proclaimed by UNESCO in 2005, with the aim of remembering the importance of recycling our waste, reducing […]
Almost half a century has passed since the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1972, where the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was created in 1992, with the aim of […]
At this time of major environmental changes, the companies that will lead these changes will be those that, based on DIGITALIZATION, develop new capabilities based on information derived from key data. In this way, they will be able to advance in the objectives of SUSTAINABILITY, such as managing their carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, […]
In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, an opportunity for countries and their societies to embark on a new path to improve the lives of all, leaving no one behind. The Agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ranging from the elimination of poverty to curbing climate change, universal education, women’s […]
DIGITIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: IDP PROVIDES DIGITAL TWIN SOLUTIONS TO IMPLEMENT BOTH THE ASSET DIGITIZATION AXIS AND THE EVALUATION AND SIMULATION OF SUSTAINABILITY SCENARIOS. What are the Next Generation EU funds? Next Generation EU is a European Recovery Fund that will involve an investment of 750 billion euros, between loans and transfers during the period 2021 […]
Between 2 and 13 December Madrid brings together the 196 nations and the European Union at the Conference of the Parties (COP25). The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This summit seeks to advance towards the implementation of agreements that establish concrete obligations […]
The circular economy is a sustainable development strategy that has been proposed to address problems of environmental degradation and scarcity of resources. Its three principles are the reduction, reuse and recycling of materials. These principles propose a circular system where all materials are recycled, all energy is obtained from renewable sources, the reconstruction of ecosystems […]
LANDFILL ENGINEERING The term “Landfill Engineering” refers to a part of a new scientific-technological discipline developed since the end of the twentieth century: Environmental Geotechnology. In the recent years, the progress in the development of waste treatment projects (new treatment plants or technological and process improvements) has been reflected to a lesser extent in construction, […]
The Forestry Engineering Chapter of the Lima Departmental Council of the College of Engineers of Peru is organising the conference: “Recovery of Areas Degraded by Solid Waste in Dumps in Rural Areas” on Tuesday 12 April” Alejandro Grande, Director of IDP Peru, will explain the 12 projects that IDP is carrying out for the Peruvian […]
Last Tuesday the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (SEMARNAT) in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), started the workshop of the project to create the operating organisms for urban solid waste integral management. At the workshop the different presentations where focused on priority aims such as legal aspects, viability, and financial self-sufficiency, operational potential […]
