Sustainability, competitivity and geopolitical disruption. Presentation of the eighth annual report of the SDGs.

Esade Barcelona · June 18, 2025 · 10:00 am - 11:30 am

The Observatory of the SDGs, with the support of the Social Observatory of the “la Caixa” Foundation, presents the Vth Annual Report 'Sustainability, Competitiveness and Geopolitical Disruption' in which we address the tensions between sustainability and competitiveness in the context of the new European strategy and in an environment of geopolitical disruption. The report analyzes the new situation and focuses on the situation of SMEs in the process of sustainability integration.

At the event we will present the conclusions of the Report and we will have the opportunity to dialogue with Àngel Castiñeira, academic director of the Observatory of the SDGs and director of the Chair in Leadership and Sustainability of Esade, Jordi Torrent, head of Strategy of the Port of Barcelona and Jacint Soler, director of Institutional Relations and European Affairs of PIMEC.

10:00h Welcome and presentation of the conclusions of the VIII Report by

Josep Ollé, director of Palau Macaya of Fundació “la Caixa” and Ferran Curtó, Deputy Director of the Chair in Leadership and Sustainability at Esade.

10:30h Sustainability, competitiveness and geopolitical disruption. Conversa entre Àngel Castiñeira, Jordi Torrent i Jacint Soler