Biography: Environment

Guillermo Barragan is a member of the energy, environment and natural resources practice group, and also part of the carbon market work group at Gonzalez Calvillo, a firm that he joined in 2006 after having acquired significant experience in environmental and natural resource law at specialised boutique firms. He specialises in issues related with environmental permitting, administrative procedures, environmental audits and public consultation processes and has extensive experience in energy, public tenders, privately financed projects, and in the design of legal strategies for the development of various types of projects, including those within the infrastructure, energy, real estate, industrial and tourism sectors.

Guillermo Barragan was invited by the Institute of the Americas to organise and coordinate conferences regarding the carbon market in Latin America, with special focus on the creation of a voluntary carbon market in the region regulated by the Mexican Stock Exchange, he is actively involved in analysing the regulatory aspects of projects and designing strategies to ensure their conformity with the relevant legal requirements of clean development mechanism projects and international standards such as those set forth by the World Bank Group and the OCDE.