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| Spain proclaims a climate emergency, creates plan of action |
| 2020-01-23 |
[LA Times] MADRID ‐ Spain’s new government declared a national climate emergency on Tuesday, taking a formal first step toward enacting ambitious measures to fight climate change. The declaration approved by the Cabinet says the left-of-center Socialist government will send to parliament within 100 days its proposed climate legislation. The targets coincide with those of the European Union, including a reduction of net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Spain’s coalition government wants up to 95% of the Mediterranean country’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2040. The plan also foresees eliminating pollution by buses and trucks and making farming carbon neutral. Details of the plan are to be made public when the proposed legislation is sent to parliament for approval. More than two dozen countries and scores of local and regional authorities have declared a climate emergency in recent years. Scientists say the decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record. Also Tuesday, young climate activists including Greta Thunberg told the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland they were not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Well ok then. Immediate measures would be revoking tourist and transit transportation. Second, the shuttering and seizure of Airbus assets as well as the Spanish Auto Industry, especially Tauro Sport Auto. How dare they make race cars. Third, cease all business and monetary transactions with countries and organizations which support air and auto construction - that includes the EU. Go on now, show me. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-01-23 12:28 |
| #3 Spain has undertaken a series of economic measures with negative results. about 10 years ago they began to subsidize mega expansions of olive trees and after production went up the price came down and a lot of the govt subsidized loans ended up being uncollectable, Spain now relies heavily on people paying for 'organic' olive oil. This works for now but only until people realize it is basically a scam Spain also subsidized wind power and solar power and ended up with high electricity prices and ugly wind towers on many of their otherwise picturesque hills. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-01-23 12:21 |
| #2 And it will return them to their glory years of the 16th century. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-01-23 10:02 |
| #1 the hottest ever measured on Earth Direct systematic standardized measure has been going on for less than 200 years of a 4000 year of recorded history, and millions of prehistoric years. Not to include exposed contemporary efforts the manipulate data to fit political ends. |
| Posted by: Procopius2K 2020-01-23 08:12 |