Gerardo Anzaldúa

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Gerardo Anzaldúa

Master of European Business/MSc
BSc (Mechanical and Electrical Engineering)

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Gerardo Anzaldúa is a Senior Fellow in the fields of water and biodiversity at Ecologic Institute. His main interests are water management, resource efficiency, biodiversity conservation and adaptation to climate change from an environmental economics perspective. He is a native Spanish speaker, is fluent in English and has good knowledge of German.

Gerardo Anzaldúa is mainly active in analysing different aspects of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and developing tools to support future River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs). In addition, Gerardo is taking part in the effort to increase the capacity of conservation of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystems through his involvement in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) Project (BioFresh). Within this project, he focuses on the assessment of ecosystem services provided by freshwater biodiversity and is simultaneously developing a dissemination strategy for the project. His work on the study Assessment of the potential of ecosystem-based approaches for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Europe contributed to the discussion about the capacity of healthy ecosystems to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change.

Before joining Ecologic Institute, Gerardo Anzaldúa worked as a junior operations manager of food manufacturing for PepsiCo (Mexico), where he was responsible for the performance and management of four production lines. In a number of projects, he developed innovative concepts involving the design of new machinery and operational procedures to optimise the use of human and natural resources. In his most important project, Gerardo Anzaldúa developed a comparative study on capacities of production lines and also applied measures promoting the efficient use of energy and equipment.

Gerardo Anzaldúa has a Bachelor of Science degree from Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering. He received a double Master's degree in European Business from ESCP Europe.

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This project is focused on assessing and improving the impact of Climate-ADAPT through an evaluation that looks both backward and forward. The primary objective of the project is to comprehensively evaluate Climate-ADAPT, including its subsites such as the European Climate and Health Observatory and the EU Mission on Adaptation Portal.

Evaluation of the European Platform for Climate Adaptation Climate-ADAPT

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The program "Bridging Global Divides" provides students from the University of Colorado Denver with the opportunity to spend three months in Berlin, while studying relevant contemporary issues such as the ecological crisis, the politics of injustice, international politics, and dictatorships.

Berlin – Bridging Global Divides

Semester Abroad Program with the CU Denver

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Project:Horizon Europe
 
SCALE UP Logo
The overall goal of SCALE-UP is to support regional multi-actor partnerships, consisting of private businesses, governments and policymakers, civil society organisations, and researchers in identifying and scaling-up innovative and sustainable bio-based value chains that build on regional resources. Through its approach, SCALE-UP will adapt, implement and evaluate tools to help regional actors to overcome the apparent bottlenecks towards fully exploiting bioeconomy potentials in their region.

Concepts, Tools and Applications for Community-driven Bioeconomy Development in European Rural Areas (SCALE-UP)

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cover of the BE-RURAL deliverable "Note on the development of a sustainability screening for regional bioeconomy strategies"
This report provides the context and justification for the development of BE-Rural's Sustainability Screening, a description of its methodological procedure, and the syntheses of results from the two experimental implementations of the approach in the Stara Zagora and Vidzeme regions, which are included in full as annexes to this report. The last chapters present the main lessons learned from these two pilots and the overall conclusions of the task.

Note on the Development of a Sustainability Screening for Regional Bioeconomy Strategies

Deliverable 5.4 H2020 Research project BE-Rural

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Cover of the report "Water resources across Europe"
According to a recent EEA report co-authored by Ecologic Institute, water stress has become a serious problem across Europe and climate change is likely to raise the challenge. The report "Water resources across Europe – confronting water stress: an updated assessment" calls for a shift from crisis management to risk management to prevent irreversible negative consequences for nature and society. The report emphasizes the need for greater water use efficiency and improved ecosystem resilience, as water resources become insufficient to meet the joint demand of humans and nature.

Water Resources Across Europe

Confronting water stress: an updated assessment

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Project:Horizon 2020
 
Europe's environment is in an alarming state, with climate change expected to further aggravate the situation. This substantially threatens economic prosperity, human wellbeing and social peace. Our society and economy need systemic transformative change, and ecosystem restoration integrated into nature-based solutions lies at its heart. MERLIN (Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a Landscape context: Innovation, upscaling and transformation) is a 4-year Innovation Action project (funded by the EU) which aims to support transformative ecosystem restoration. The project will work in 17 flagship projects, from Finland to Israel, in order to generate a blueprint for to implement, upscale and replicate restoration and nature based solutions in freshwater ecosystems.

Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of Freshwater Related Ecosystems in a Landscape Context (MERLIN)

Innovation, upscaling and transformation

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Resilient European Cities: Nature-based Solutions for Clean Water
Diffuse pollution is one of the key reasons European water bodies are failing to meet environmental objectives as specified in the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Outbreaks of toxic green algae affect rivers, lakes and coastal waters creating so-called "dead zones" where no aquatic life can thrive. Such outbreaks are by-products of dangerously increasing nutrient levels in water. Nutrient and soil losses have been recognised as challenges for decades across Europe and have been a key driver for freshwater biodiversity losses. With climate change, these challenges are likely to get worse: higher temperatures, lower river flows and more frequent and more violent flooding events. Other human-induced changes (such as dams and weirs) have modified the course of rivers and affected their natural flows.

Resilient European Cities: Nature-based Solutions for Clean Water

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