Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship
October 28, 2025
09h30 - 17h00
BIOPOLIS/CIBIO - Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Center, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, R. do Crasto, nº 765, 4485-684 Vairão.

Conference
Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship

Business and Nature: An Essential Relationship
Program
Check-in | Welcome-Coffee
09h30
Opening and welcome Host and GRACE
- Isabel Barros, President of GRACE, representing Sonae, SGPS
- Pedro Beja, Knowledge Partner of the Nature Cluster, representing BIOPOLIS/CIBIO
10h00
Companies for Water and Nature: Why act now?
- Nuno Ferrand, Director of CIBIO - Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources and of the Associated Laboratory InBIO - Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
10h30
What impact companies have on water and biodiversity, and how to mitigate it: Presentation of companies' Good Practices
Moderator: Francisco Taveira Pinto, Director of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geo-Resources (DECG), Coordinator of the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Unit of FEUP's Institute for Sustainable Construction (ICS).
- Fátima Borges, Director of Sustainability and Social Responsibility at Águas de Portugal
- Rui Calouro, Regenerative Agriculture Manager - BEL Portugal's Happy Cows Milk Program
- Fernando Coelho, Lipor's Environmental Education Technician
10h40