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Value circle: ODS 11

Aclima’s Sustainable Cities and Communities Value Circle integrates organisations that provide urban solutions in various fields, such as urban waste management, engineering and consultancy services for waste plan development, and circularity of urban consumption through material flow mapping.
Urban waste and engineering and consultancy services in order to draw up waste plans or ensure the circularity of urban consumption by mapping material flows.

River and sanitation management.

Management of other urban infrastructures such as lighting or environmental monitoring stations.

Services for pollution abatement through the provision of services for the monitoring and control of pollutants (water, soil, noise and air).
Implementation of nature-based solutions and environmental remediation solutions for urban and industrial environments through state-of-the-art physico-chemical and biological treatments.

2STRATEGIC PLAN ACLIMA 2023-2026

  • Implementation of solutions associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation.
  • Urban and territorial redevelopment services.
  • And in general, all types of support services to improve sustainability in municipal management: environmental audits, implementation of environmental management standards, study of citizen habits, green and sustainable purchasing, etc.

Organisations that are already working as you can see below in the key of Smart City

Projects and initiatives

Working
groups

Innovation projects for the design and implementation of 4.0 technologies in advanced and effective environmental management.
Development of strategic plans and innovation projects in the quality value chain and environmental health.
Companies that manage controlled deposits in the CAPV.
Working Table of Active Water Agents in the Basque Country: Euskadi Water Consortia and URA.
Water value chain innovation projects that respond to the water strategy at Aclima.
To respond to future changes in environmental regulations.
It consists of companies with final treatment plants for hazardous industrial waste.
Promote the exchange of needs and opportunities for the recovery of different wastes.

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