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...
Category: Spain News Brief and Action Alert
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
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...
Leading Country Climate NGOs: The Renewable Foundation, Spain
The Renewable Foundation is a think tank established in 2010 to raise awareness about the need to change the energy model and prioritize savings, efficiency, and renewable energy as fundamental principles. It was founded by professionals with extensive experience in the energy sector and has grown by involving many citizens who want to be part...
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...
Spain 2024 Climate Scorecard Award: Valvanera Maria Ulargui Aparicio
Climate Scorecard’s 2024 Government Climate Leadership Award is presented to a country official who has done the most to reduce emissions in their country’s government over the past year. Below is a copy of the letter sent to each nominee and why they were chosen to receive this award.Spain 2024 Climate Scorecard Award: Valvanera Maria...
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
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
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
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...