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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
On March 15, 2017, the FES-CO2 launched the sixth call for Climate Projects. This call is targeted at projects that reduce emissions from the diffuse sectors and that enter into operation by March 31, 2018. Eligible projects must be located in Spain and must not be subject to the emission trading scheme. It should be noted…
With a delay of almost a year and a half on the time limit established by Brussels for the transposition of Directive 2012/27/EU into national law, which was set for June 5, 2014, Royal Decree 56/2016 transposing into Spanish law Directive 2012/27/EU on energy audits, accreditation of providers of energy services, energy audits and the…
