Within the framework of our project "Training and capacity building for the defense of the environmental rights of groups vulnerable to the climate emergency" (funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Call for Unique Projects 2024), on May 21, 2025 we will celebrate the conference "Childhood participation in climate and environmental issues" . Children and adolescents, [...]
The book " has recently been publishedLegal Challenges at the End of the Fossil Fuel Era. Shaping a Just and Clean Energy Transition" from the publisher Palgrave Macmillan. In this book, relating to the complexities of the energy transition and the importance of having political and legal frameworks aligned with its current and future needs, [...]
The climate emergency and the ecosocial crisis raise the need for training tools to address their underlying causes and promote the protection and defense of the environmental rights of all people, especially those who are in situations of vulnerability and exclusion, and who are disproportionately affected by their impacts. At INSTA we want to offer [...]
This month of May, Leo Broadhurst has joined INSTA to carry out his internship for the Pompeu Fabra University Law Degree. Leo is about to complete his Degree in Law at the Pompeu Fabra University, where he is also currently studying for a degree in Political Science and Administration. Leo has worked in the private [...]
After a few years as an employee of INSTA, Ivan Hortigüela has recently joined as a working partner of the cooperative. Ivan, who works as an environmental lawyer within the team, will take on the role of promoting the cooperative as a partner and as a member of the Governing Council.
With the collaboration of the Sindíc de Greuges de Catalunya, the next one May 8, 2024, we will hold the workshop "Promoting Restorative Environmental Justice in Catalonia", with the aim of exploring, in the light of the experience of this approach in other areas, the potentialities and challenges of Restorative Justice in the area environment [...]
Next January 16, 2024 we will hold a workshop on " Environmental dialogue and resolution of environmental conflicts ", in the Degree Hall of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona (Campus Catalunya). The objective of the event is to provide a space for reflection around the environmental conflicts [...]
Perfil demandat: Grau o llicenciatura en dret. Es valorarà formació en ciències ambientals i/o dret ambiental. Es valorarà especialment tenir coneixements i experiència en dret de l’energia, urbanisme, medi natural i litigació ambiental. Característiques de lloc de treball: Jurista ambiental que haurà de fer tasques d’assessorament jurídic ambiental, elaboració de dictàmens i informes, anàlisis normatius, [...]
On June 20 and 21, la Canonja will host a training course on how to combat energy vulnerability through energy communities. The course is part of the El Cable project, a project that INSTA has been developing since 2022 and which aims to strengthen the link between energy communities and vulnerability. During the two days [...]
In November 30th and December 1st, 2022, INSTA's lawyer, Ivan Hortigüela, participated in the third mission of the project "Regional Social Economy Policies for Sustainable Community-Driven Environmental Transition" (RESPONDET) in Krakow (Poland) ). The RESPONDET project focuses on the green and digital transition from the social economy in local territories and is co-financed by the [...]
