Reforming Environmental Permit and Review Systems: El Salvador
Presenter: Jorge Castaneda
Recorded: 19 March 2018
Slide presentation – El Salvador environmental permit reforms
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In this 90-minute webinar, learn how El Salvador’s environmental permit and review reforms and online platform saves time, provides certainty, transparency, accountability, validation, spatial information access and participation for all levels of impact.
Our presenter, Jorge Castaneda, demonstrates the El Salvador comprehensive and innovative platform, an integrated system for environmental permitting and review, from application through enforcement, with features addressing many of the common challenges and pressures for reform faced by all EsIA programs.
This webinar will interest government and development officials responsible for EsIA systems, related environmental permitting and enforcement and anyone else interested in the new environmental permit and review system in El Salvador.
Jorge Castaneda directs the EsIA program in El Salvador’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MARN) and has been deeply involved in shaping reforms in El Salvador’s system.