Energy Market Newsletter for Chile and Peru – September 2023
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Energy Market Newsletter for Chile and Peru – September 2023

We are pleased to showcase the main legal and market developments for the energy sector in Chile and Peru. Garrigues teams focused on Energy in Chile and Peru address topics of interest to sponsors, developers, financiers and other stakeholders in the sector, such as draft bills, summaries of new laws, relevant case law and trends…

The Government of Mexico calls to bid for the procurement of drilling services for geothermal wells in Baja California, Michoacán and Jalisco
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The Government of Mexico calls to bid for the procurement of drilling services for geothermal wells in Baja California, Michoacán and Jalisco

The deadline to submit offers for the five wells located on the two parcels is October 16. Through the Financing and Risk Transfer Program for Geothermal Energy in Mexico, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will allocate funds for this new tender after the first one was declared cancelled last July 2023 due to lack of…

Financial Times’ highlights Garrigues as a leading law firm in the fight against climate change

Financial Times’ highlights Garrigues as a leading law firm in the fight against climate change

The Financial Times and Statista Europe’s Climate Leaders 2023 ranking, lists the 500 European companies that have made the most progress in reducing their GHG emissions For the third year in a row, Garrigues has been recognized for its fight against climate change and has consolidated its position as the top-ranked European law firm that…

Sustainable mobility: a challenge for the public and private sector with legal developments on the horizon
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Sustainable mobility: a challenge for the public and private sector with legal developments on the horizon

Garrigues experts in the areas of transportation, logistics and mobility analyze the main regulatory challenges in the field of mobility, led by Alfonso Cuenca, legal adviser to the Spanish Parliament, Director of Studies of the Lower House of the Spanish Parliament and legal adviser to the Lower House Committee on Transportation, Mobility and the Urban…

Green bonds, an opportunity for fostering sustainable tourism
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Green bonds, an opportunity for fostering sustainable tourism

Partners from Garrigues met with Meliá and Azora executives to discuss the role green bonds can play in the tourism industry, in the latest Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs encounter. Sustainable financing is now, and will continue to be, one of the leading ways to fund and invest in the real estate, tourism and hotel sectors. José…

Garrigues featured in The Legal 500 Global Green Guide for its contribution to the green transition
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Garrigues featured in The Legal 500 Global Green Guide for its contribution to the green transition

The Legal 500 has published its first ever Legal 500 Global Green Guide, which showcases the firms with an outstanding contribution to the green transition. Garrigues is one of the three Spanish firms selected from 200 submissions for the list. The Green Guide features key firms advising on issues around climate change and sustainability, while also…

The Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs: following the Paris Agreement, COP26 calls for action

The Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs: following the Paris Agreement, COP26 calls for action

In the latest of the Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs webinars, the director general of the Spanish Climate Change Agency, Valvanera Ulargui, has reviewed the conclusions of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in which she took part, analyzing outcomes versus expectations. She draws an optimistic conclusion. COP26, held in Glasgow from October 31 to November…

Landfilling generates almost twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as energy recovery

Landfilling generates almost twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as energy recovery

The carbon footprint of waste-to-energy plants is clearly lower than the carbon footprint associated with landfilling. In fact, landfilling can generate double the amount of greenhouse gases as energy recovery per ton of waste treated, with a net balance almost 3.5 times higher. This is the main conclusion drawn from the study entitled Energy recovery…