The paper industry is an important sector in Portuguese and Spanish industry and in the economies of both countries. Portugal and Spain are large paper and pulp producers in the European Union. The Commission has proposed a new EU target for 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels. This means accelerating the reduction of emissions in the paper industry, as well as in others related to waste circularity and water saving.

The Energy Transition Chair of the Repsol Foundation at Comillas ICAI is organizing this webinar, in which this major challenge facing the paper industry will be presented, as well as the main strategies that are being implemented, along with some solutions under development.

In 2015, the Paris Agreement adopted the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5ºC before the end of the 21st century. This goal was supported from a scientific point of view by the United Nations Special Report on Global Warming in 2018. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to move towards the goal of being net zero emissions by 2050, and Negative Emissions Technologies will be essential.

The Repsol Foundation Energy Transition Chair at the Rovira i Virgili University is organizing this webinar in which these technologies and their CO2 removal potential will be explored.

The new Sustainable Mobility Act will be approved during this year 2024, in order to accomplish one of the objectives agreed with the European Commission in the Addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. It aims to support mobility as a social right, promote clean and healthy mobility, bet on digitalization and innovation and improve the quality of investment decisions and expenses in transport and mobility, as well as developing new tools to increase public participation.

During this conference organized by the Repsol Foundation and the School of Unidad Editorial, the keys to this new regulation will be approached from the different points of view by the agents involved, in the path towards a fair and inclusive energy transition.