With the aim of favouring sustainable industrial activity and to encourage "green industry" in the Principality of Asturias, IDEPA has since 1994 been carrying out a series of initiatives, chief amongst which are the Environmental Advisory Programme - in the framework of which more than 200 environmental audits and diagnoses have been made in different production centres in the region - the Impulso Prize for Industrial Environmental Management, the organization of enterprise workshops, courses and seminars, carrying out sectorial studies and guides and other publications of interest.

For their part, the public funding programmes with an environmental theme carried out in recent years have been especially useful in the promotion of the industrial environment, encouraging the implantation of means for improving the environmental behaviour of companies or the implantation of environmental management systems according to different standards.