Introduction

Our Mission, Vision and Values

ES Strategy

Our Solutions for a Sustainable World

Solar Energy

Bioenergy

Environmental Services

Information Technologies

Engineering and Industrial Construction

Abengoa’s Emissions Balance

Helping to build a Sustainable World

Focus-Abengoa Forum on Energy and Climate Change

News and Events of ES

The Stakeholder’s Mailbox

For over a decade, Abengoa has focused its growth on the creation of new technologies that contribute to sustainable development in response to the growing concern of citizens, consumers, public authorities and investors with respect to care of the environment.

The activities conducted through the five business groups and the Focus-Abengoa Foundation reflect Abengoa’s commitment to social well-being and economic and social development, in an attempt to ensure the needs of the present without compromising the capacity of future generations to face their own needs.

In 1984, the United Nations Organization (UNO) “Our Common Future” report included the concept of “sustainable development” for the first time. Today, areas defined by the UNO as “sustainable development” are fully integrated in the activities carried out by Abengoa.

Abengoa goes beyond compliance with international standards. An inventory of greenhouse gas emissions was recently started up, with the aim of determining in the most detailed manner possible the environmental impact of the company's activities. Based on the results obtained from this inventory, Abengoa will proceed to establish quantitative goals to be reached in the coming years, in order to adopt pertinent measures in order to minimize the negative effects linked to these emissions. At Abengoa, we strive to be forerunners in sustainability, and we demonstrate this through actions as resolute as the one described below.

One of the most significant goals achieved this year was the company's active entry into the field of emissions management, through ZeroEmissions, an Abengoa subsidiary. This represents a vital area so that both companies and countries meet the objectives for reducing emissions set forth in the Kyoto Protocol. Abengoa has also carried out significant activities in the area of renewable energy and recycling, with systems and infrastructures that have contributed to eliminating the emission into the atmosphere of millions of tons of CO2.

Abengoa's forward-looking goals are increasingly more ambitious. Through the emissions inventory, it will be possible to define and implement measures to allow the company to continue progressing in its commitment to sustainable development. Furthermore, within its business strategy, two new areas of business were added: CO2 capture and storage and energy efficiency. These are areas in which Abengoa has been working for years, primarily from an R&D perspective, and they now represent activities which the company seeks to pursue with vigor in order to take them to the commercial phase.