60 |2020 Sustainability Report |Global challenge The main aspects taken into account and controls established are the following: Energyconsumption Carbon footprint • Energy reviews in accordance • Calculation and verification of the with ISO 50001 and RD Carbon Footprint for all Aqualia's 56/2016. activities in Spain and Portugal. • I mproved measurement. • Review of the Carbon Footprint Waste • Calculation of energy Reduction Plan for Aqualia's Activity performance by pumps. and verification of the emissions avoided in the Climate Project. • Storage and final • Optimisation and management of hazardous improvement of production and non-hazardous waste processes, installations and in accordance with current equipment. legislation. • Optimisation of the purchase • Agricultural use for of energy (power). WWTP sludge. • Maintenance and improvement of the network's hydraulic performance. For the management of environmental risks, general • Monitoring contracts with energy review. environmental risk sheets are available and adaptable by contract to the specific circumstances. These sheets • Calculation and verification of the Carbon Footprint contain the preventive measures to be taken in case for all Aqualia's activities in Spain and Portugal. of risk and the response to be made in case the risk materialises. Here are some examples of preventive • Registration of the Carbon Footprint in the OECC measures: Covered storage for identified chemicals and (Spanish Office for Climate Change) depending hazardous wastes, with bunds and absorbents to collect on the MITECO (Ministry for Ecological Transition) spillage, chlorine gas escape detection systems, etc. for all Aqualia's activity in Spain. With regard to the objectives, the Managing Committee, • Review of the Carbon Footprint Reduction Plan via the Management System Committee, shall establish for Aqualia's activity. the "global" objectives of the Management System (eg: Energy and carbon footprint reduction projects, use/ • Verification of the emissions avoided in the MITECO production of renewable energies, etc.), as well as the OECC Climate Project that was approved in 2018 strategic lines that are detailed in specific objectives for the for the use of alternative fuels corresponding to the contracts defined and approved by the production areas. company's activity and in motor vehicles. With regard to the scope of energy management and •Follow-up on the project for the Implementation climate change, in 2020 the following was worked on: of the Energy Management System in all activities in Spain, in compliance with RD 56/2016.