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Jaume Fontal
CPTO & Co-Founder
Jaume Fontal is a technology professional who currently serves as CPTO (Chief Product and Technology Officer) at Manglai, a company he co-founded in 2023. Before embarking on this project, he gained experience as Director of Technology and Product at Colvin and worked for over a decade at Softonic. At Manglai, he develops artificial intelligence-based solutions to help companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint.
Articles by Jaume Fontal
Core climate concepts
Pioneer species and their role in ecological restoration
Pioneer species are the hardy, fast-growing organisms that are first to colonise bare or disturbed ground, such as land cleared by fire, mining or aba ...
Corporate sustainability
Carbon sinks and corporate sustainability
A carbon sink is any natural or engineered reservoir that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide than it releases. For companies, carbon sinks matter ...
Green finances
Ecological charges on the use of natural resources in Spain
Ecological charges on the use of natural resources are levies that public authorities impose on the use or extraction of natural assets (water, timber ...
Green finances
Tax strategies to reduce emissions in industry
Environmental taxation has become one of the main levers for industry to cut its emissions. It combines instruments that penalise pollution (the carbo ...
Green finances
Green taxation for SMEs: how to turn it into savings
Green taxation (or environmental taxation) has two sides: it taxes what pollutes and, at the same time, rewards those who invest in efficiency and cle ...
Green finances
Air pollution taxes in Spain: framework and instruments
Air pollution taxes in Spain are not a single national levy but a combination of regional taxes on industrial emissions, transport taxation and the EU ...
Green finances
Benefits of environmental taxation for business and society
Environmental taxation (or green taxation) is the set of taxes, levies and charges that tie the tax burden to an environmental impact. Its value is no ...
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Corporate sustainability
The economic benefits of reducing your company's carbon footprint
Reducing your carbon footprint is not only an ethical responsibility: it is a decision with an economic return. It trims operating costs, improves acc ...
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Emission reduction
Long-term decarbonisation strategy: what it is and how to apply it in your company
A long-term decarbonisation strategy is the roadmap that sets out how an organisation, or a country, will sustainably reduce its greenhouse gas emissi ...
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Legislation and regulation
Zero Waste certification: what it is, requirements and how to obtain it
The Zero Waste certification demonstrates that an organisation recovers most of the waste it generates and diverts it from landfill. In Spain it is gr ...
Corporate sustainability
The most sustainable transport options for your company
When a company wants to reduce its carbon footprint , the choice of transport modes becomes a strategic decision. Backing sustainable transport cuts e ...
Legislation and regulation
GLEC Framework: what it is, how to implement it and its link to ISO 14083
The GLEC Framework (Global Logistics Emissions Council) is the reference methodology for calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the logisti ...
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