Barcelona Declares Climate Emergency, Vows To Halve Emissions By 2030
Spain’s second-largest city is becoming a model for sustainable urban planning.
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BARCELONA ― The city government here declared a climate emergency and vowed to spend $628 million over the next five years to dramatically slash its output of planet-heating emissions and fortify this sun-soaked Mediterranean metropolis for the warming that’s already unavoidable.
Lawmakers in Spain’s second-largest city on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping policy package that includes 103 measures ranging from bans on polluting vehicles in newly demarcated “low-emissions zones” to the creation of more parks to phasing out single-use plastics.
The changes are projected to help halve the city’s emissions by 2030. That target is in line with what United Nations scientists say is required globally to keep warming in the relatively safe range of 1.5 degrees Celsius, roughly half a degree hotter than average temperatures today.
“This is not a drill, the house is on fire,” Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau said at a press conference, according to a translation of the speech published in El País, the country’s newspaper of record.
The announcement comes months after a European Union report found that Spain’s nationwide emissions increased 17.9% during a 27-year period in which greenhouse gas outputs fell 23.5% across the continent.
The backslide, coupled with a record-breaking heatwave this summer, helped spur the ruling Socialist Party to become the first national government in the developed world to endorse the Green New Deal framework for lowering emissions. Dubbing its program “el New Deal Verde,” the center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez narrowly won reelection last fall and last week swore in a new cabinet formed in coalition with the anti-austerity party Podemos.www.huffpost.com/...
Climate emergency declarations in 1,330 jurisdictions and local governments cover 810 million citizens
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Microsoft wants to capture all of the carbon dioxide it’s ever emitted
The company wants to be carbon negative by 2030www.theverge.com/...
Microsoft Pledges To Remove From The Atmosphere All The Carbon It Has Ever Emittedwww.npr.org/...
Spain Might Be The World’s Most Important Climate Test
The progressive bloc set to rule Europe’s fifth-largest economy has endorsed a Green New Deal but risks fueling a resurgent fascist movement.
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But there is good news: every day we see more individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments ... leaders from 196 countries came together in Paris to sign the first truly global deal to fight the climate crisis.
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In the fight against climate change, there is a global need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase ... The economic think-tank is worried by the slowdown, but it may actually be good news for the climate
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