PUBLIC CONSULTATION on the “State Strategy for Green Infrastructure and Ecological Connectivity and Restoration”

According to the Communication of the European Commission “Green infrastructure: improving 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 offer a wide range of ecosystem services. It includes green spaces (or blue if they are aquatic ecosystems) and other physical elements in terrestrial (natural, rural and urban) and marine areas.”

The concept of Green Infrastructure was incorporated into the Spanish legal system in 2015, through a law that establishes that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, with the collaboration of the Autonomous Communities and other Ministries involved, prepare a State Green Infrastructure Strategy, and of Ecological Connectivity and Restoration, which:

“It will aim to set the guidelines for the identification and conservation of the elements of the territory that make up the green infrastructure of the Spanish territory, terrestrial and marine, and so that the territorial and sectoral planning carried out by the public Administrations allows and ensures ecological and the functionality of ecosystems, mitigation and adaptation to the effects of climate change, the defragmentation of strategic areas for connectivity and the restoration of degraded ecosystems.”

In this context, the draft of State strategy for green infrastructure and ecological connectivity and restoration which is currently subject to public consultation.

• Deadline: June 27, 2019.

Source and more information: Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO)