- (Re)designing goods and services.
- Analyzing goods’ and services’ life cycles.
- Evaluating the size and nature of ecological footprints.
- Determining circular, low-carbon strategies for companies and governmental institutions (and respective territories).
- Develop strategies for mitigation of and adaptation to the effects of climate change.
- Promoting circular, low-carbon businesses.
- Building resilient, smart, sustainable cities.
- Promoting an efficient usage of available resources (raw materials, energy, and water).
- Performing multi-material audits.
Sustainability initiatives’ objectives
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Dora Caria
Coordinator
Holds a degree in Environmental Engineering, followed by a Master’s in Environmental Management Systems. She has extensive experience in international audit protocols, such as ISO14001, ISO9001, ISO27001.
She currently holds the position of Head of Circular Economy Engineering Solutions at Landbell group (https://landbell-group.com/), leading a team of engineers and economists, spread throughout Europe and the US, whose main role is to design, develop and optimize voluntary processes for the recollection and treatment of end-of-life equipment and packaging waste. The purpose of these processes is to reduce the environmental impact of such waste and old equipment and implement sustainable practices for the circularity of their materials.
From 2008 to 2015, she joined the ERP (European Recycling Platform) team as a quality and audit manager, with the main objective of developing integrated management systems in the 17 European countries where ERP was present. She was also responsible for developing an auditing protocol and standard for REEÉs and RPA’s recyclers, which allowed for the definition of a qualification mechanism for recyclers to be incorporated into the ERP network, for the whole of Europe.
She started her professional activity in the environmental consultancy division of SGS, having interacted with different business models, technologies, and industrial sectors – either in the context of environmental management systems consultancy, technical studies, or certification audits.
Activities / Outputs
In preparation.