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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
INSTA has been the beneficiary of the last call for Singulars projects to promote the social and solidarity economy, promoted by the Department of Labor of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Specifically for the promotion of a project through which energy poverty is fought through collective renewable energy projects, such as energy communities. The project aims [...]
INSTA will participate in the work team of the research project "RESTORATIVE JUSTICE RESEARCH PROJECT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL CRIMES: DESIGN OF PREVENTIVE, INTERVENTION AND REPAIR PROGRAMS IN A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK". Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2021-2025) and led by researcher Gema Varona (Basque Institute of Criminology, University of the [...]
Ivan Hortigüela Bolsa, INSTA's lawyer specializing in Environmental Law, has been part of the winning team in the competition for the 13th edition of the Idea Generation Program of the Research Park of the Autonomous University of Barcelona held on 12 May . The project of the team proposes the identification and classification of the [...]
Our lawyer specializing in Environmental Law, Gastón Medici-Colombo, participated as a speaker in the “Navigating Climate Justice” training organized by the European section of The Climate Reality Project which took place in March 2022. Gastón spoke as an expert in the “Advocating for Climate Justice in Your Community” session with a presentation that addressed the [...]
This year INSTA celebrates its first 10 years! It was in 2012 when three partners (Jordi Recordà, Joan Pons and Jordi Solé) created this consultancy specializing in environmental law. 10 years later, with a long accumulated experience and new people who have joined, INSTA wants to continue many more years in the defense of environmental [...]
