Sustainable Development Fair scheduled for November 4-7, 2008
SUSTAINABILITY TO BE DISCUSSED DURING GEO2 FAIR AT BEC
The 11th Environmental Engineering Congress and the forum "From Social Responsibility to Sustainability" form part of the programme of events for the GEO2 Sustainable Development Fair, scheduled to take place at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre on November 4-7, 2008.
The 11th Environmental Engineering Congress will take place from November 4-6. It is organised by the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) and the University of the Basque Country, through the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Environment of the Higher Technical College of Engineering in Bilbao.
It has the backing of the Bizkaia Provincial Council departments of the Environment and of Innovation and Economic Promotion. Both these departments are working to develop environmental sustainability through specific programmes in the fields of research and environmental protection, and through the application of environmental and quality measures at industrial and business companies.
The core objective is to provide scientists, technicians and environmental managers with a regular forum for sharing results and progress in research, development, engineering and management in the fields of science, engineering and technology applied to the protection of the environment.
The 11th Environmental Engineering Congress: Activities and Topics
The activities of the Congress will be organised in monographic sessions focusing on various aspects of environmental planning, policies and management, environmental solutions compatible with sustainable development and maintenance, operation and control of environmental monitoring and control facilities.
A total of 11 topics have been proposed by the Scientific Committee, and will be covered via lectures, round tables and presentations. The full list of topics is as follows: "Environmental Engineering, Transport and Sustainability", "Sustainable Landfill Management", "Life-Cycle Analysis & Eco-products", "Using Waste as Secondary Raw Materials", "Case Studies in the Implementation of Technologies to Improve the Environmental Performance of Processes", "Emerging Micro-contaminants in Water: New Challenges for Rain & Waste Water Treatment & Purification Plants", "Decentralised Systems of Water Supply, Treatment & Reuse", "2008: Drainage Year: Redefinition & New Methods", "Calibration & Quality Control of Automatic Measuring Systems: Emissions & Air Quality", "Advanced Methods for Air Quality Management, Risk Estimation & Damage Assessment" and "Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Estimation, Adaptation & Mitigation".
The forum held under this title is a new framework for action in the field of corporate responsibility, and an opportunity to look at a new paradigm: sustainability. On November 5-6, the forum will include exhibitions and debates, but also specific agreements and opportunities for active participation.
Organisations tend to direct their strategies on corporate responsibility in reaction to social, environmental and economic pressure, seeking opportunities for improvement in the implementation of those strategies.
This forum will enable companies to direct their processes towards more rational, more sustainable and therefore more competitive models, establishing better relationships with customers and suppliers, finding new partners and breaking into new markets in association with the right partner.
The exposition of new policies for improving the immediate social environment will improve joint responsibility with employees, suppliers and customers in a framework of negotiation based on interests.
To that end, the forum includes prearranged meetings, sectoral roundtables and talks centred on discussion and participation as a way of finding customised solutions in each area of social responsibility, and encouraging the active implementation of sustainability.
GEO2: Responding to a global problem
Bilbao Exhibition Centre is organising this first GEO2 fair in response to the global problem of sustainable development, which is currently headline news. The objective is to publicise and support the implementation of sustainable development concepts in corporations, public institutions and society in general.
The fair takes up the baton from PROMA, the pioneer of environmental trade fairs in Spain, and extends its commitment to providing responses to new needs arising from the implementation of modern environmental management strategies and policies.
GEO2 thus focuses on the three main pillars of sustainable development: the environment and energy, economy and society, in a commercial exhibition and are varied programme of Congress events.
