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Grup Carles Engineering and Sustainability, together with the Osona Business Council, organized a luncheon titled "Sustainable Finance". The event featured Raul Antúnez Retamal, Head of Sustainability and Climate Change Consultancy, and Xavier Carles, General Director of Grup Carles.

The commitment of European states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlights the need for many changes in the current way of doing things, both by governments and businesses. However, the need to achieve objectives by 2030 and 2050 requires an action plan that will need the knowledge of many professional groups. I will focus on the field of engineering in all its specialties, undoubtedly one of the most significant contributors to the proper development of these obligations.

In Spain, despite the increasing discussion on innovation in working conditions such as telecommuting, family reconciliation, flexible schedules, or a 4-day work week, these concepts are still challenging to integrate into our routines and, above all, into our corporate culture or mindset.

Grup Carles, as a company committed to sustainability, is registered in the Carbon Footprint, Compensation, and CO2 Absorption Projects Registry of the Ministeri per a la Transició Ecològica i el Repte Demogràfic. We are proud to announce that in January, we obtained the Carbon Footprint Calculation Seal. This is a first step towards continuing our sustainability strategy through the implementation of actions to mitigate climate change.

We live in a world where we spend more than 90% of our time indoors. According to an AIMC study, we spend about 15 hours a day in our homes, which represents 62.3% of our daily time. If we add up the hours we spend in enclosed workplaces, transport and leisure spaces, this percentage rises to 90%. 

It is a commission from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia to study how to improve the generation of renewable energies

Whether consciously or not, people organize parts of their lives into projects. Using a general definition, a project is a temporary effort made to create a unique result. This broad concept encompasses everything from fulfilling a personal need, like planning a trip or buying a vehicle, to more complex operations such as starting a business.