To: Valvanera Ulargui, General Manager of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, SECRETARÍA Address: Plaza San Juan de la Cruz, 10 – Madrid 28071 (Spain) Tel: 0034 91 597 67 45/47 e-mail: buzon-dgoecc@miteco.es Dear Vulvanera Ulargul, My name is Ron Israel. I am the Director of Climate Scorecard, an international NGO working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....
Rating B- Like many other countries, Spain maintains a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventory to monitor and report its emissions yearly. The latest complete report was released on March 2023 with 2021 data—a preview of the next GEI report to be released utilizing data from 2022.Generally speaking, emissions of 293.8 million tons of CO2 equivalent...
Rating BAlthough Climate Change is an escalating global challenge, it’s especially relevant for Spain, as it is one of the EU countries expected to be affected the most by the climate crisis, impacting various sectors, including agriculture.The size of a Spanish farmer’s farm can vary widely. Some farmers operate small family-owned plots, while others might...
Spain will not reach a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2030. However, it will contribute towards coming close to meeting the 50% emission reduction threshold as a collective component of the wider EU bloc. According to Spain’s objectives laid out in its Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (INECP), adopted in 2019, Spain is...
Despite EU member states laying out comprehensive climate action plans to galvanize momentum in phasing out fossil fuels by 2030, analysts have conflictingly documented a 4% growth in fossil fuel subsidies across the EU between 2015 and 2019, displaying firm resolute in preserving significant flows of fossil fuel subsidies (FFS) that threaten to derail climate...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
