Focus-Abengoa Forum :: Energy y Climate Change

About us

Abengoa (MCE:ABG) is an international company that applies innovative technological solutions aimed at sustainable development in the energy and environmental sectors to generate energy from the sun, produce biofuels, desalinate sea water and recycle industrial waste, bringing long-term value to its shareholders through a management model based on encouragement of the enterprise culture, social responsibility, transparency and professional rigor

In view of the certainty of climate change, confronting global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. This task necessarily involves a drastic change in our energy model in terms of both supply and demand.

Abengoa seeks to contribute, through the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, to the debate on changing the energy model. And it wishes to do so through a multidisciplinary approach focusing on both technological and economic conditioning factors involving the utilization of clean sources of energy, as well as institutional and political mechanisms leading to decisions by users and producers that are compatible with a sustainable energy model.

The aim of this forum is to promote, through initiatives of public debate, a genuinely open platform for research, presentation and contrasting of ideas and results through whatever actions are deemed relevant at a given time, in accordance with the nature of the issues to be analyzed. The goal is for debate to be far-reaching and flexible enough to include and compare as many other initiatives as considered suitable in relation to renewable energies and aspects involving climate change.

Under the umbrella of the Focus-Abengoa Forum on Energy and Climate Change, autonomous initiatives promoted by the Foundation or by Abengoa will be organized and fostered, as well as all kinds of collaborative efforts involving other organizations, be they businesses, such as Fedea, academic institutions (UIMP), research institutes and centers, or any other participating bodies, public or private, national or international, with which joint action is carried out in the field of energy and the environment (such as World Solar Power, World Biofuels, the master's degree program with the collaboration of IETA, etc.).

Focus-Abengoa-Fedea Research Program

The aim of the Fedea-Abengoa Energy and Climate Change Research Program, created by Fedea, the Foundation for Studies in Applied Economics, and the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, is to develop an interdisciplinary working team to promote debate and research on "efficiency in the use of renewable sources of energy, innovation in renewable energy sources, and the effects of these processes on the environment and the economy". Research of this kind seeks to improve our understanding of the technological and economic aspects underlying the changes in the energy model needed to face the challenge of climate change, as well as the institutional and political mechanisms leading to decisions in terms of production and consumption that are compatible with a sustainable energy model.

Other noteworthy objectives of this program include generating ideas and disseminating results, in both the national and international academic realm, as well as among professionals in and negotiators of economic policy. Abengoa's involvement in creating solutions for sustainability is reflected in the studies promoted through this research program.

The general working approach of this project is based primarily on the creation of an interdisciplinary team of economists and scientists, whose main lines of research involve matters related to the efficient use of energy sources, innovation in renewable sources of energy, and the effects of these processes on the environment and the economy. The benchmark is the SET (Sustainable Energy Technology) report on these issues, which is organized into two areas: technical efficiency and economic efficiency. In addition, through this research project academic gatherings and conferences will be organized to broach environmental and energy-related topics, and a platform will be created to facilitate access to databases built in the energy, environmental and economic areas.

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