The Magdalena Palace (Santander) hosts this week the meeting “Answers to Global Challenges. Beyond Climate Neutrality”, within the summer course of the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP). This event’s opening, which will be held until Friday, was attended by Cantabria’s President, Miguel Ángel Revilla; Santander’s mayoress, Gema Igual; UIMP’s dean, Carlos Andradas; and the CEO of EDP Spain, Ana Paula Marques.

The meeting, organized by EDP, analyses the great global challenges, identified in the current context, involving not only the energy sector, but also other key sectors like banking or investment funds, construction, chemical industry, consultancy, and organization of the third sector, among others.

Ana Paula Marques, CEO of EDP Spain, has reminded the commitment of the company with Cantabria, with annual investments of almost 50 million euros, and has insisted that the company keeps its engagement of being 100% green by 2030, boosting renewable energies.

During these three days, the meeting will bring together international experts from the institutional, academic, and business field, that will debate the great global challenges identified in the current context, like the funding of new business models; the Fair Transition models; new ways to work and the opportunity of STEM Careers; the consumer’s power; supply chains; raw materials for energy transition and new transport and distribution networks.

Apart from EDP representants, this meeting assembles experts from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, from Cantabria’s Government, from Spain’s United Nations Global Compact, and from the Spanish Association of Women for Energy, among others.