Posted on 01/21/2020 2:25:09 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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.
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Just go live in caves again, Spaniards.
Then the planet will be safe from whatever.
Delicate little planet flower in space, so fragile.
Not surprised.
They surrendered to terrorism almost as fast as the French.
Climate hysteria is just another thing to surrender over.
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“2050”
It’s ALWAYS good form to make Climate Promises dated beyond the likely end of one’s career. [ 30 years out or more. ]
Natural gas futures are below $2.00 MM !
It’s perfectly fine to make finding renewable energies and advancing energy technology a priority, but this doesn’t require throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Do you suppose the legislation will create and Inquisition to examine climate-change heretics?
Doesn’t the rain in Spain fall mainly in the plain?
If so Climate Plan done!
We only have 11 years left, these people are behind the curve a bit.
The idiots in Spain just elected a far left government. They’re not wasting anytime destroying the country.
Dumbass Spaniards.
No wonder they lost their empire.
Guessing the proposal won’t be the cabinet and parliament will stop exhaling.
Funny how those throwing the loudest tantrums are never at the front of the line.
Pamplona has canceled Running With The Bulls because...bulls and methane gas or something.
“Spain declares climate emergency, gets climate plan ready”
i though Spain had already bankrupted themselves with their last failed multi-billion dollar “sustainable” energy boondoggle ...
Spanish Marxists smoking too much “Spanish Fly”. Should have let the Moors keep Spain.
Back to the good old days of a 30 year life expectancy.
A waste of time and money making the top 1% richer.
Spain went through this ‘save the world’ cycle roughly 15 years ago and got DESTROYED, forcing them to come back to Earth.
I guess their latest leader will have to learn the same lesson.
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