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Spain’s Agriculture Sector Emitted .64% of Global Agricultural Sector Emissions in 2021
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Spain’s Agriculture Sector Emitted .64% of Global Agricultural Sector Emissions in 2021

Despite the critical focus of Spain’s climate policy and action understandably being directed to its two most carbon-intensive industries, energy, and transport, jointly making up about 50% of the country’s total carbon emissions, the agriculture industry has bizarrely been left largely excluded from the environmental spotlight. Yet, contributing to around 3% of GDP, the agricultural...

Spain: A Climate Look Past and Forward
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Spain: A Climate Look Past and Forward

Looking Back 2022:  Extreme Weather Strains Energy Resources Looking Forward 2023: Plan to Secure 74% of Electricity with  Renewable Energy Resources After a turbulent year setting off with the wettest march in 61 years, the earliest heatwave in over 40 years, and complete with the warmest New Year’s Day in over 20 years, 2022 has...

Assessing Spain’s Power Grid
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Assessing Spain’s Power Grid

The Spanish power grid is considered a legal oligopoly, with the most significant five large companies dominating 84.9% of the market in 2019. Following global trends, the national power grid was largely decentralized and partly liberalized in 1997, separating its generation, transmission, distribution, and supply components. While transmission and distribution remained in complete government control,...

Spain’s Renewable Energy Generation and Consumption
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Spain’s Renewable Energy Generation and Consumption

Data Provided on Renewable Energy Generation and Consumption by Red Electrica Following the European Green Deal, which has set binding targets for EU member states to reach by 2030, Spain has drawn considerable attention with its ambitiously laid out National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) 2021-2030, committing to overachieve an expected 32% share of renewables...

Spain Aiming to Reduce its Vehicle Emissions by 39% by 2030
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Spain Aiming to Reduce its Vehicle Emissions by 39% by 2030

Diverging from reducing trends of GHG emissions seen in other industries in the EU, transport-related emissions have steadily increased and subsequently become more pronounced. Transport-related emissions account for a considerable amount of the EU’s total GHG emissions, amounting to 22%, excluding shipping and aviation.  In Spain, the situation worsens, with transport emitting 82.5 million tons...

Water Levels Across All of Spain’s River Basins Will See a 20% Decrease in the Coming Decades
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Water Levels Across All of Spain’s River Basins Will See a 20% Decrease in the Coming Decades

Spain’s sweltering summer came with three abnormally extreme heat waves that occurred sooner, lasted longer, and was categorized with higher intensities compared to previous years. The unambiguous consequences of anthropogenic climate change are becoming ever more apparent. Though decarbonizing the economy should remain at the forefront of national climate policy, the reality of the Anthropocene...

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