Green Alliance demands 5 measures against climate emergency

2023-09-29 00:43:52

Green Alliance has demanded from the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, five urgent measures in the face of his foreseeable government to continue deepening climate policies, among them, promoting a single public transport card and carrying out an audit on the subsidies received by the “industry”. fossil”.

Five urgent measures

Specifically, the environmental group has proposed five “urgent” and “key” measures so that the future progressive government “advances” “bravely in climate policies.”

“We are already in injury time, but we can do it with enough ambition”

In this way, it has urged review “upwards” the objectives of the climate change lawas required by the rule itself for this year 2023. “We are already in injury time, but we can do it with sufficient ambition,” they noted.

Start a public energy company

At the same time, he has stated that it is time to launch a public energy company, a strategic sectorand launch a single card for public transportsince it is a “way to facilitate citizens’ commitment to sustainable mobility, as opposed to private vehicles.”

Audit that allows quantifying the subsidies received by “the fossil industry,

Fourthly, it has demanded a “audit that allows quantifying the subsidies received by the fossil industry”to, once its magnitude is clear, proceed to the total elimination of these subsidies, which must be dedicated entirely to the financing of a green and fair transition.”

“We cannot afford setbacks or stand still. Given the seriousness of this emergency that we are suffering, we can only move forward and deepen the green policies that we implemented in this last legislature”

Finally, he has asked that in this legislature a climate change adaptation lawsince “cities have a lot to do in this regard and very few comply, from taking measures for their renaturalization to implementing low-emission zones.”

For the coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uralde, given the foreseeable failure of the attempted investiture of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and in the “anteroom” of Sánchez’s candidacy, it is necessary to put on the table “the green “urgency” that the fight against the climate crisis implies.

“We cannot allow ourselves to set back or stand still. Given the seriousness of this emergency that we are suffering, we can only move forward and deepen the green policies that we implemented in this last legislature,” he concluded.