Mapfre Must Adopt Stricter Policies Against New Fossil Fuel Projects
Mapfre, Spain’s leading insurer, continues to face challenges in implementing stricter policies to fully eliminate its exposure to new fossil fuel projects.
Mapfre, Spain’s leading insurer, continues to face challenges in implementing stricter policies to fully eliminate its exposure to new fossil fuel projects.
The autonomous communities (AC) and municipalities are fundamental actors in fulfilling Spain’s climate change and energy transition commitments at the international level.
Article by Ana Barreira, director of IIDMA, on the challenges of negotiations at COP29 and the difficulty of reaching agreements.
IIDMA presents the report ‘The rights of nature: A new paradigm for the protection of biodiversity and the climate system?’
IIDMA commemorates the success of the Montreal Protocol on the 30th anniversary of World Ozone Day.
On Wednesday 26 June 2024, IIDMA is organising the conference ‘Climate rights and legal mechanisms for climate protection: How to legally protect the climate system under the rule of law’.
On April 9th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued three rulings in the cases KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, Carême v. France, and Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and 32 other States, in which, for the first time, the interference of the effects of climate change with the enjoyment of a series of human rights included in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of 1950 was addressed.
On Friday 31 May 2024, IIDMA, in collaboration with the Commission for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of the Spanish Parliament, is organising the conference ‘The EU’s 2040 climate target: the role of science and the policy response’.
Last Monday 29 January the International Institute for Law and the Environment (IIDMA) has presented the report ‘Climate rights: Legal mechanisms for climate advocacy in Spain’.