Green jobs and environmental competitiveness, the hubs of Ihobe's activity for 2012 - 05 February, 2012.
Contributing towards job
creation and helping to improve the competitiveness of the Basque Country's
companies will be the main aims of the 75 projects that Ihobe, the Public
Environmental Management Corporation of the Government of the Basque Autonomous
Community (region), will be running in 2012. Alongside these priorities, the
Director General of this public corporation has indicated that they will be
working to increase Ihobe's reference in the Spanish State and internationally
and to move closer to the general public.
This morning, Ihobe’s
Director General presented the Management Plan to about a hundred supplier
organisations to inform them about the projects this public corporation will be
carrying out. Fernando Barrenechea pointed out that the tasks Ihobe will be
undertaking during this year have been selected on the basis of making a direct
contribution to job creation, improving business competitiveness, and the
impact they can have on the general public.
"In the medium term
our production base will be absorbing and incorporating jobs specialising in
environmental matters, just as in the past it assimilated and took on
employment linked to quality assurance. The production base will also be
seeking increasingly environmentally friendly services and products in a
society that is more and more concerned not only about what but
also about how,” asserts Ihobe in its Management Plan.
Barrenechea urged the
companies and organisations present at the Forum to collaborate together with
Ihobe to increase and improve the Basque Autonomous Community’s reference as an
advanced region in terms of sustainability, and to highlight the work they have
been doing with this public corporation.
About 60% of Ihobe’s
budget for 2012 will be devoted to what it has termed as "value
hubs": continuing with the development of the Eco-efficiency Plan in
companies to improve their competitiveness by incorporating environmental
criteria into their production processes; expanding the deployment of
Udalsarea21, the Basque Network of Municipalities towards Sustainability;
breathing life into the Basque Ecodesign Center; and being an effective and
efficient public corporation.
Finally, the 12th edition
of the Suppliers’ Forum facilitated the subsequent meeting of Ihobe with about
ten key organisations in Basque society to establish future alliances and
possible mutual collaboration. These organisations include foundations of a
business and social nature, universities, R+D centres, organisations geared
towards getting young people into the labour market, etc.
Source: www.ihobe.net
February 05, 2012.