According to the European Commission’s Communication “Green Infrastructure: Enhancing Europe’s Natural Capital”, Green Infrastructure is a “strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural spaces and other environmental elements designed and managed to provide a wide range of ecosystem services. It includes green spaces (or blue if referring to aquatic ecosystems) and other physical elements in terrestrial (natural, rural, and urban) and marine areas.”
The concept of Green Infrastructure was incorporated into Spanish legal order in 2015, through a law that establishes that the Ministry for Ecological Transition, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities and other involved Ministries, will develop a State Strategy for Green Infrastructure and Ecological Connectivity and Restoration, which:
“will aim to set guidelines for the identification and conservation of the elements of the territory that make up the green infrastructure of the Spanish territory, both terrestrial and marine, and to ensure that the land and sectoral planning carried out by public administrations allows and guarantees ecological connectivity and the functionality of ecosystems, mitigation and adaptation to the effects of climate change, the de-fragmentation of strategic areas for connectivity, and the restoration of degraded ecosystems.”
In this context, the draft of the State Strategy for Green Infrastructure and Ecological Connectivity and Restoration has been prepared and is currently undergoing public consultation.
- Deadline: June 27, 2019.
Source and more information: Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO)