{"id":3503230,"date":"2023-03-02T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/?p=3503230"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:52:03","slug":"spain-approves-maritime-spatial-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/spain-approves-maritime-spatial-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain approves maritime spatial planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1372.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Spain\u2019s Council of Ministers has approved maritime spatial plans \u2013 the so-called POEM \u2013 of the Spanish marine demarcations, which includes spaces for offshore wind development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The plans relate to the five Spanish marine zones: North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Strait and Alboran, Levantine-Balearic and Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Among these around 5000 square kilometres is reserved for offshore wind development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The POEMs are intended to allow optimal use of maritime space, reducing conflicts and promoting coexistence while ensuring protection of sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems, habitats and species, including those protected by regional, national or supranational regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The POEMs are renewed every six years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the process of preparing the POEMs, a set of Priority Use Areas (SPAs) for activities of general interest and other High Potential Areas (ZAP) have been identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ZAP areas include port activity as well as the development of offshore wind energy and marine aquaculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Source: <\/b>Renews.biz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3503211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503233,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503230\/revisions\/3503233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}