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Recommendations to Strengthen Spain’s NDCs
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Recommendations to Strengthen Spain’s NDCs

The NDC Partnership is a network of over 120 countries, facilitated by UNFCCC, that is dedicated to helping each other strengthen their Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Pledges. The Partnership has just released Version 3.0 of the NDC Navigator, an interactive tool that supports the development of updated country NDCs to be submitted in...

Spain is One of the World’s 15 Largest Clean Energy Consumers But Due to Storage Challenges, Renewable Energy Still Constitutes Only 22% of Spain’s Total Energy Consumption
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Spain is One of the World’s 15 Largest Clean Energy Consumers But Due to Storage Challenges, Renewable Energy Still Constitutes Only 22% of Spain’s Total Energy Consumption

The energy sector is one of the most significant contributors to greenhouse gas generation, making using renewable resources in energy production essential to advancing the fight against climate change. However, renewables reduce atmospheric emissions and decrease energy dependence, ensuring a local and secure supply. Therefore, it is unsurprising that Spain has strengthened its position in...

Spain Ranks First Among European Countries in Terms of Heat-Related Mortality
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Spain Ranks First Among European Countries in Terms of Heat-Related Mortality

However, the mitigation measures implemented thus far are insufficient.   Spain ranks first among European countries where heat-related mortality has increased the most during this century. This is highlighted in the second report of ‘The Lancet Countdown’ indicators in Europe, led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) in collaboration with 40 other European...

The Mandated Emission Trading Systems Market has been One of Spain’s Main Drivers of Emissions Reduction
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The Mandated Emission Trading Systems Market has been One of Spain’s Main Drivers of Emissions Reduction

Currently, there are two complementary carbon emissions trading systems in Spain: the mandatory regulated market and the voluntary market. They are very different; their only similarity is that they auction the same thing: one ton of carbon equivalent (tCO₂e), with significant divergences in their objectives and operation. Undoubtedly, the mandatory regulated market has been the...

Internal Regional Political Polarization Threatens Spain’s Climate Policies
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Internal Regional Political Polarization Threatens Spain’s Climate Policies

The last presidential elections in Spain were held in July 2023. Although the left-wing Socialist Party (PSOE), which was in power, received fewer votes than its primary right-wing opponent (PP), it managed to stay in government by forming a strategic alliance with regional political parties, especially those in the Catalonia region with separatist tendencies from...

Spain’s Telecommuting and Early Retirement Trends Benefit Climate Change Mitigation
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Spain’s Telecommuting and Early Retirement Trends Benefit Climate Change Mitigation

Historically, CO2 emissions have been strongly correlated with economic development. The richer we are, the more CO2 we emit. But this relationship no longer necessarily holds at higher incomes. Many countries are starting to achieve economic growth while reducing emissions. They are decoupling the two. It’s only over the last 20 years that this decoupling...

Spain’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan
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Spain’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan

The policy that will make a significant difference in lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Spain is the European Union’s (EU) binding Climate and Energy policy for 2030. This policy requires all member state governments to adopt Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (INECPs) covering 2021 to 2030. In January 2020, the Spanish government declared...

Spain: Model Community Climate Mitigation Programs
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Spain: Model Community Climate Mitigation Programs

Vitoria-Gasteiz THE COMMUNITY VITORIA-GASTEIZ (VG) is a community in Alava province with 253.093 citizens and 280 km2. VG is an industrial area in the north of Spain that is making efforts to mitigate climate change. They live in a high-risk area for climate change hazards. According to high-resolution climate scenarios, temperatures in VG are expected...

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