{"id":22,"date":"2019-03-10T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fedevz\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-03-10T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:51:51","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fedevz\/2019\/03\/10\/22\/","title":{"rendered":"Acciona – Major Sustainable Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey guys, in this blog post Im not going to talk about irrelevant social media families such as the Kardashians. Im going to talk about a company that helped restore my faith in business. Some time ago, my father talked to me about a Spanish company, with their revenues in the billions of euros, that wanted to buy his company. Anyways, after he told me the name of the company, I started looking into it and it seemed amazing. Just recently, in my Innovation and Sustainability class, we were asked to research a company and basically critique their business practices through a sustainability lens. This company is so great that I want to tell you about it.<\/p>\n

Acciona is a Spanish company that has several business divisions: Infrastructure, Energy, Water, and Other Businesses. They build roads and bridges, to harvesting and providing clean energy from those wind things and solar panels, desalinate and basically clean water and provide it to millions of people, and even has a fund management and investing business. They basically are so diverse that they can do anything and everything. However I thought that a construction company needs to “bad” and pollute or have an environmental footprint, and I was right… until a certain point.<\/p>\n

Several of Acciona\u00b4s business practices do pollute and release GHG emissions, however, through their other businesses they mitigate that impact. In 2016, the company became carbon neutral. Acciona also works on mitigating their social impact and their environmental impact. This is the first time I have seen this but the company has a Social Impact Methodology, where they asses the negative and positive consequences of their business practices. Through their sustainable business model, they strive for sustainability.<\/p>\n

The company discloses their sustainability reports for years now. They form part and signed onto the Paris Agreement. Acciona also helps achieve several of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. Basically, the company does everything that EVERY SINGLE COMPANY needs to do. Even their instagram is on point. Thank you and hope your faith is restored in business like mine is.<\/p>\n

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(Photo from Acciona.com)<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Acciona Media. (2019). Social Impact Management. Retrieved March 10, 2019 from <https:\/\/www.acciona.com\/sustainability\/society\/social-impact\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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