FCC Construcción, through its CFO, Maria Carrasco, has participated in the event organized by the Spanish Network of the United Nations Global Compact, "CFOs are key players on the path to a more sustainable economy". Sustainability has become a strategic priority for many players in the economy, both in the real sector and in the financial community. Sustainability is driven by global finance and the expectations of investors around the world, not only from a risk perspective, but also seen as a source of opportunity.

Despite these mounting pressures, it is still difficult for many CFOs to recognize the importance and impact of becoming more sustainable. Much of finance's planning, management, and reporting responsibilities still focus on financial KPIs, but a company's value and risks are not just expressed in financial statements.

The CFO needs to embed sustainability into strategic and functional themes, with a view to making his entity represent a sustainable business. The company must become an agent of change, helping to ease the path of the transition to a lower-carbon and fairer economy. For this, it must try to reduce the negative impacts that its operations generate, and increase the positive impacts from the environmental, social and economic point of view.

In order to carry out this cultural transformation, cross-cutting cooperation is necessary not only at the internal level of the organization, but also proactive interaction with other actors in society and, in particular, there must be a very close relationship between the business world and the agents of the financial system. In this process, the CFOs of both companies and financial institutions are not only stakeholders, but also key players in leading this path towards achieving sustainable results.

Maria Carrasco, CFO of FCC Construcción participated in a round table that included the CFO of Sacyr, the leader of sustainable construction and rehabilitation of BBVA and the moderation of the director of strategy and sustainability of the Spanish Banking Association. The CFO of FCC Construcción highlighted the role of the company and its clear commitment to sustainable development in all its activities, as a company linked to citizens. She, in turn, insisted on the need to establish more regulators over companies in order to meet all the proposed objectives and allow the entire value chain to achieve them.

The meeting aimed to present the advances, opportunities and challenges of the banking and corporate sectors in terms of sustainability, for which the strategies and actions that both companies and financial institutions can take to accelerate the transition process towards a global economy will be analyzed. more sustainable, more adequately managing the current risks and barriers, and identifying business opportunities through the innovation of products and services that they offer to their clients.