On Monday morning, January 10, Gonzalo Asencio spoke with María Elena Dressel and Roka Valbuena on Radio La Clave about the water crisis, environmental management and corporate sustainability.

Following the study that proved human responsibility for the disappearance of the Aculeo Lagoon, Gisma’s CEO highlighted the need to take action: “As a society we are faced with the need to correct a series of practices and to realize that our impact is direct and is affecting our own future (…). The productive growth process is facing the fact that the availability of the resource is decreasing. These are two factors that end up converging in a crisis of this nature”.

Given this evidence, the conversation with the drivers of Emprender es Clave led us to the purpose for which the company exists. SIGEAOur solution is oriented to the corporate management of companies that, from our perspective, are the major players in this issue of sustainability. Probably, one of the main pillars of sustainable development is that our companies, corporations and enterprises are sustainable”.

Regarding SIGEA’s operation, and in response to a sharp question from journalist María Elena Dressel, our CEO said: “The volumes of information are gigantic and, naturally, good decision-making requires good information. Good information in general is not a lot of information, but a little, good and precise information, which allows you to generate indicators. These indicators allow you to make better decisions. The idea is that you can, for example in the case of water, verify in real time what your levels are, what your flows are, what your consumption is in your processes and that this allows you to make an optimal management of all the processes”.

 

Along with the need to take action on impacts, Asencio complements this with the indirect benefits of using tools such as SIGEA: “Indeed, there is a wide range of studies that show that companies that take charge of environmental and social components have better performance as a company, in terms of year-end results, as well as better shareholder value. This has triggered the shareholders themselves to start putting pressure on company management to take these issues seriously, which has led to the establishment of new standards, guidelines and even aspects that are starting to become part of the regulations”.

Culminating the conversation in the Chilean radio station, our CEO emphasized that “When we take charge of sustainability, I am not taking charge of a cost, I am aligning the company’s strategy in a strategy that is sustainable” .

Undoubtedly, sustainability is about intelligent, foresighted and integrative decisions, so at the end of the conversation with Dressel and Valbuena, Gonzalo Asencio said: “To make economic sustainability part of our strategic objectives, we have to understand that we need to manage the social and environmental components in a sustainable way. Then sustainability begins to be installed, as part of the operating principle of a company, in all lines, both in the business unit lines and at the decision-making levels”.

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