‘Waste: we do not want to see it, but it is here’ Iñaki Susaeta, an environmental technician at IHOBE, the Basque Government’s environmental management agency, thus started his talk at the Donostia Sustainability Forum. In a world flooded with statistics, Susaeta proposed a change of strategy: ‘for the narrative to try to kill the data’. The aim is to avoid cold figures to address the root of the problem: our relationship with objects and hidden cost of our development.

‘Waste: we do not want to see it, but it is here’ Iñaki Susaeta, an environmental technician at IHOBE, the Basque Government’s environmental management agency, thus started his talk at the Donostia Sustainability Forum. In a world flooded with statistics, Susaeta proposed a change of strategy: ‘for the narrative to try to kill the data’. The aim is to avoid cold figures to address the root of the problem: our relationship with objects and hidden cost of our development.

Kutxa Fundazioa joins the network of promoters, marking the start of a new phase to consolidate and grow the project.

Kutxa Fundazioa joins the network of promoters, marking the start of a new phase to consolidate and grow the project.

Monitoring marine mammals through stranded animal networks in the United Kingdom has become a key tool for advancing conservation policies and improving marine management. This was explained by Rebecca von Hellfeld at the conference held as part of the Donostia Sustainability Forum, where she detailed how data collected through the CSIP and SMASS programmes have helped strengthen wildlife protection and guide evidence-based decision-making, in a model that can be replicated globally. Von Hellfeld is a researcher at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and Business Management from the University of London, an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree in Environment and Marine Resources from EHU, and a PhD from Heidelberg University.

Monitoring marine mammals through stranded animal networks in the United Kingdom has become a key tool for advancing conservation policies and improving marine management. This was explained by Rebecca von Hellfeld at the conference held as part of the Donostia Sustainability Forum, where she detailed how data collected through the CSIP and SMASS programmes have helped strengthen wildlife protection and guide evidence-based decision-making, in a model that can be replicated globally. Von Hellfeld is a researcher at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and Business Management from the University of London, an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree in Environment and Marine Resources from EHU, and a PhD from Heidelberg University.

The current urban model is facing a major challenge. Cities are not only the main climate change scenarios, but are also major greenhouse gas emitters. The urban ecologist Salvador Rueda, President and Director of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, introduced the ecosystemic urbanism concept, which puts forward a comprehensive model designed to transform cities into resilient climate change scenarios and to return the public space to citizens.

The current urban model is facing a major challenge. Cities are not only the main climate change scenarios, but are also major greenhouse gas emitters. The urban ecologist Salvador Rueda, President and Director of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, introduced the ecosystemic urbanism concept, which puts forward a comprehensive model designed to transform cities into resilient climate change scenarios and to return the public space to citizens.

The recent Conference of the Parties (COP30), held in Belem (Brazil) on the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, ended with a series of decisions that show the persistence of the multilateral process defining these climate summits, despite the desired ambition not being achieved. At the Donostia Sustainability Forum, Mª José Sanz, the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), explained that progress had been made regarding aspects such as climate finance and protecting tropical forests, in spite of the extremely complex geopolitical context, characterised by a global ‘polycrisis’.

The recent Conference of the Parties (COP30), held in Belem (Brazil) on the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, ended with a series of decisions that show the persistence of the multilateral process defining these climate summits, despite the desired ambition not being achieved. At the Donostia Sustainability Forum, Mª José Sanz, the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), explained that progress had been made regarding aspects such as climate finance and protecting tropical forests, in spite of the extremely complex geopolitical context, characterised by a global ‘polycrisis’.