The IV Carbon Footprint Forum brought together companies and professionals interested in reducing their impact on climate change.

The event was held at the Bergondo Business Association HQ.

The USC-Genesal Energy Chair of Energy Transition organised the IV Seminar on Corporate Carbon Footprint for SMEs, a meeting that brought together technicians and professionals from small and medium enterprises committed to sustainability.

The aim of the event was building intelligence on the carbon footprint as a KPI used to improve the sustainability strategies. The seminar was attended by experts who shared their experience on its measurement and reduction and the integration of sustainability in the business strategy. The speakers were PhD Enrique Roca Bordello, director of the Chair, and PhD Eugenio Fernández Carrasco – both researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering of the USC-, Genesal Energy’s CEO & CFO, Julio Arca, and the Sustainability Coordinator at Genesal Energy, Antía Míguez Fariña.

During the first part of the conference, Mr. Roca and Mr. Fernández focused their interventions on the keys to identify the different parameters of the carbon footprint, the most used methodologies and how to measure it. In addition, they presented various practical tools which allow organisations to monitor their emissions improving sustainability indicators in their operations.

Genesal’s experience with corporate carbon footprint

Following, Mr. Arca and Ms. Míguez commented on their experience as a sustainable and socially committed company. They explained the guidelines that a company should include in its Environmental Social Governance strategy to become a benchmark in the implementation of sustainability policies. They also analysed the Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism, a reference instrument to put a fair price on carbon emitted during the production of carbon-intensive goods entering the EU and to encourage cleaner industrial production in non-EU countries.

Mr. Arca, one of the promoters of the initiative, pointed out that ‘these meetings are essential to create a space for the exchange of knowledge between researchers and business, leading to greater awareness, greater knowledge and an increase in the number of companies that will implement sustainability policies’.

A successful event that, given the interest it arouses, will continue to be held annually.