The Danish company LEGO announced last week the opening of its new factory in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam.

With an investment of more than $1 billion, the group hopes this facility will become its most sustainable.

“This plant in Vietnam becomes the sixth for the group, which already has factories in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and China.” It is expected to “run on 100% renewable energy by early 2026.”

The group has said the new facility will generate around 4,000 jobs, “strengthening LEGO’s presence in Asia.”

In parallel, the company is planning to open a distribution center in Dong Nai province before the end of 2025 to facilitate “regional product distribution, thus strengthening the company’s supply chain in Asia.”

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The Ministerial Conference on the Digital Economy of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be held between December 13 and 16, 2022 in the Canary Islands and will focus on sustainable, inclusive and competitive digital transformation.

The Conference, which will be the first to be held on European territory, expects the participation of approximately 60 ministers responsible for the digitization sector in their respective countries. Among the guests, the member countries of the European Union stand out, as well as the United States, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and Canada.

The organizers are still analyzing the agenda of the Conference, but the aspects to be discussed are related to “digital rights, international data transfers, the principles of artificial intelligence, disinformation, connectivity, digital security or the double green transition. and digital.”

Canary Islands, leader in smart tourism

The holding of the Ministerial Conference on Digital Economy in the Canary Islands archipelago will become a leader in “intelligent tourism and digital destination for digital nomads” because it is among the 10 fastest growing global destinations for “digital nomads”.

During the Conference, different events will be held on the various islands that make up the archipelago, but it will be held centrally in the municipalities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

The Digital Economy Policy Committee is a specialized formation within the OECD, in charge of developing policies based on realities that stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive, reliable, sustainable digital economy that promotes social well-being.

This committee is responsible for producing reports with “non-binding” recommendations that help coordinate and support national initiatives on digital transformation.

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The Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities (UCCI) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) met in the city of Madrid to develop the “‘Ibero-American Strategy for Tourism of the Future’ (EIT)” with the participation of the eight leading cities of the region.

Those responsible for Tourism in the cities of “Andorra la Vella, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Lima, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo” met with the purpose of analyzing, sharing and designing a strategic document that systematizes the vision of Ibero-American tourism in the future, and it is planned to launch it next July.

Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, indicated that the organization has the mission of promoting tourism as a factor of sustainable development of the different destinations.

“Innovation and sustainability mark our roadmap. We work so that a better tourism is reflected in the well-being and economy of local communities and their visitors”, he pointed out.

Ibero-American strategy for tourism

The EIT is an economic recovery instrument that local governments use to favor the strengthening and development of tourism in the different metropolises of the Ibero-American cities that comprise it, taking innovation and sustainability as fundamental variables.

Based on these principles, the representatives of the Ibero-American Capital Cities are preparing a specialized technical document on the policies and practices that the metropolis must implement to ensure that the tourism sector is “responsible, intelligent, sustainable, accessible and safe”.

The cities that participate in the meeting focused their priorities on decision-making, taking into consideration the historical data provided by visitors, as well as promoting the development of tourist experiences in technology and supporting the different tourist enterprises.

Additionally, they consider it of great importance to develop the various smart urban tourist destinations taking into account “five pillars: governance, innovation, technology, accessibility and sustainability.”

The International Union of Public Transport (UITP) was also present at the meeting, an organization that, together with the UNWTO, UCLG and the eight Ibero-American cities, formed part of the Work Commission.

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At the end of the fifth edition of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America Congress (Ceapi in Spanish), held in the Dominican Republic from June 1st to 2, Ibero-American businessmen have committed to building a more sustainable, entrepreneurial and connected region.

During the meeting, the 300 business leaders who participated in the event addressed the role of the Ibero-American region in the new world economy and the current context. Among the participants in the meeting were the executive president of Inicia, Felipe Vicini; the president of the Gilinski Group, Jaime Gilinski, or the Ibero-American secretary general, Andrés Allamand and the president of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader as host.

The reunion made it possible to analyze the potential of the region as a future center “of renewable energies or the general role of the region in the current scenario of uncertainty”. Andrés Allamand highlighted “the importance of preparing for the future, first by creating a pro-growth environment and, subsequently, by improving governance and guaranteeing social peace.”

Ito Bisonó, Dominican Minister of Industry and Commerce, emphasized the importance of Ceapi as a mechanism for “exchange between businessmen and institutions for the social, economic and financial stability of the region, as well as the role of the Dominican Republic as a lever of growth for Ibero-America in the coming decades

Business challenges for Ibero-America

The businessmen and senior executives who participated in the meeting prepared a document where they recorded the objectives and challenges of the business sector over the next few years, reflecting the commitment to the future of Ibero-America.

Among the aspects formalized in the document, the following stand out:

• The need to maintain a united Ibero-America
• Direct the region towards a “sustained and sustainable growth and focused on innovation, digitization and entrepreneurship.
• Maintain and deepen public-private cooperation in key sectors of the economy
• Recognize the social responsibility of companies in a scenario of increased poverty and inequality.

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The European Court of Auditors warns that the European Union “does not contribute sufficiently” to channel investments towards sustainable activities. Is has also indicated that the action of the bloc in this field “will not be fully effective” if it is not accompanied by “complementary measures” to alleviate the social and environmental costs of the ecological transition.

The auditors point out, in a report published on Monday, September 20, that the EU’s path to climate neutrality “will require significant public and private investment”, calling on the bloc to adopt “more systematic measures” to to get it.

“Unsustainable activities are still too profitable. The Commission has done a great deal to show this lack of sustainability transparently, but a solution to this underlying problem has yet to be found,” said Eva Lindström, Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible of the report.

Thus, the European auditors affirm that the Community Executive “must apply coherent criteria” to establish the sustainability of investments that use European funds and “better guide efforts to generate sustainable investment opportunities.”

For this reason, they are emphatic in highlighting the importance of completing the common system of classification of sustainable activities and recommend “other additional measures to ensure that the prices of greenhouse gas emissions better reflect their environmental costs.”

On the other hand, the report of the European Court of Auditors underlines that the EU budget has not been fully subject to good practice in finance and lacks coherent and scientifically based criteria to avoid significant damage to the environment.” This fact “creates the risk of being able to apply inconsistent or insufficiently rigorous criteria to determine the environmental and social sustainability of the same activities financed by different EU programs“, including the recovery fund.

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The National Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea invented BeeVi, a toilet that pays cryptocurrencies to anyone who uses it.

In mid-July, the Institute presented this very new toilet that has transformed the “hygienic dynamics” to the students of the Uslan University campus in South Korea, because everyone who uses BeeVi obtains Ggool units, they are a cryptocurrency authorized to purchase products in some university stores.

Each person will receive 10 Ggool a day, with which they can buy books, coffee, fruits and even instant noodles. They just have to choose the products and scan the QR code to cancel with their crypto.

Cho Jae-weon, a professor responsible for leading the research and manufacturing of the invention, explained that the goal of creating the toilet is to convert human waste into compost and biogas for different uses.

According to Cho Jae-Weon, “feces have a precious value to produce energy and compost.” Therefore, the BeeVi toilet was presented as an “ecological and sustainable” option for the generation of combustible energy.

The BeeVi toilet also reduces the use of water, because it uses a vacuum pump to send the feces to an underground tank, where the microorganisms decompose the waste into methane that is converted into a “source of energy for the building, feeding a gas stove, a hot water boiler and a solid oxide fuel cell.

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The company Bioinicia and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) launched the Bio Hygienic mask with EPI-type fit. It is the first compostable nanofiber mask in the world, which has a filtration superior to 98 % against aerosols and compost in twenty-two days.

According to the information outlined, it is the “most sustainable option to avoid the accumulation of masks in the environment.” It also indicates that the most respectful aspect “is to produce them using raw materials derived from biomass or waste and their subsequent organic recycling in the form of industrial composting, so that the carbon returns to the earth.”

As explained by José María Lagarón, CSIC researcher and leader of the group of researchers who, together with Bioinicia, creators of the mask, at this time almost all masks are made of a plastic derived from petroleum that does not biodegrade.

The new Proveil EPI mask is made with natural raw material and with 30% less plastics in its constitution. Its components will become water and CO2 over time, preventing millions of tons of plastics from reaching the oceans.

Respecting the environment

The use of the mask, as protection from Covid-19, has become an imminent risk for the environment because the mere fact of throwing them in the toilet or on the ground, and not doing it in the recommended places is a serious problem, since it causes the same damage as throwing wipes and plastics.

It takes many years to disintegrate thus becoming a pollutant of the environment. And also, its fragments will form microplastics that will be consumed by living organisms.

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