{"id":84859,"date":"2023-05-10T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/ibec-becomes-the-first-research-center-in-spain-to-certify-its-laboratories-as-sustainable\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:59:27","slug":"ibec-becomes-the-first-research-center-in-spain-to-certify-its-laboratories-as-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/ibec-becomes-the-first-research-center-in-spain-to-certify-its-laboratories-as-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"IBEC becomes the first research center in Spain to certify its laboratories as sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/empresa\/institut-de-bioenginyeria-de-catalunya-ibec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBEC<\/a>\u2019s Core Facilities and nine of its research groups have undergone the \u201cgreen laboratory\u201d certification process granted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreenlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Green Lab<\/a>\u00a0organization, all awarded with the highest levels of certification. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreenlab.org\/green-lab-certification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Green Lab Certification<\/a>\u201d is an international standard for laboratory sustainability best practices. The program covers 14 topics related to energy, water, waste, chemistry, materials, and engagement. \u00a0All the laboratories that applied to the process have been awarded with the highest levels of certification. After the success of this pilot program, the institute -based in the Barcelona Science Park- expects to certify all its groups in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among IBEC\u2019s values is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/about-us\/sustainable-research\/)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commitment to promote more sustainable practices in research<\/a> and administration to contribute, in our daily work, to fight climate change and pollution. Aligned with these objectives, IBEC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/es\/corefacilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Core Facilities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/ibec-becomes-the-first-research-center-in-spain-to-certify-its-laboratories-as-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine of its research groups<\/a> have undergone, for the first time, the \u201cgreen laboratory\u201d certification process, an international standard for laboratory sustainability best practices granted by the My Green Lab organization.<\/p>\n<p>The program covers 14 topics related to energy, water, waste, chemistry, materials, and engagement, and provides scientists and the teams that support work within laboratories actionable ways to make real and impactful environmental changes.<\/p>\n<p>There are five certification levels depending on the percentage of measures implemented, the highest being the \u201cPlatinum\u201d level, that certifies 70% or more actions implemented, and the \u201cGreen\u201d level, that certifies 80% or more. The Core Facilities and the 9 research groups that carried out the certification process at IBEC were all awarded with the \u201cPlatinum\u201d or \u201cGreen\u201d levels.<\/p>\n<p>The whole process has been possible thanks to the strong involvement of <a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/about-us\/sustainable-practices\/committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBEC\u2019s Sustainable Research Committee<\/a> and the participating research groups, and the network of sustainability managers from each group. Following the success of this pilot program, IBEC expects to certify all its groups in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreenlab.org\/green-lab-certification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Green Lab Certification<\/a> was selected in 2021 as a key indicator of progress for the United Nations\u2019 Race to Zero campaign. The goal of this global campaign is to take rigorous and immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030 and reach the goal of a carbon-free world by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bb For further information: <a href=\"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/ibec-becomes-the-first-research-center-in-spain-to-certify-its-laboratories-as-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBEC website [+]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBEC\u2019s Core Facilities and nine of its research groups have undergone the \u201cgreen laboratory\u201d certification process granted by the My Green Lab\u00a0organization, all awarded with the highest levels of certification&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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