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The socialist candidate for mayor of the capital has indicated at the conference 'Murcia, a sustainable municipality.

A look to the future 'that' of everything we do now in the environment environment will depend our future and that of our children and grandchildren "and stresses that" we must provide coherence to public policies "to reduce pollution

Sustainability, a concept that is often used in different contexts and sometimes with lightness, is for the PSOE an absolute priority and this has been made clear on Saturday by the candidate for the Mayor of Murcia by the Socialist Party, José Antonio Serrano, who has participated in the conference 'Murcia, a sustainable municipality.

A look into the future ', which was held in the hemicycle of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Murcia, on the campus of La Merced.

"We are faced with a great challenge, to take on the responsibility that each one of us has with regard to the environment." It is a challenge of great magnitude, which belongs to the entire planet, and everything that we do now will depend on our future and that of our children and grandchildren, "said Serrano, who added that it is necessary" to provide coherence to public policies "to reduce pollution and avoid episodes such as those recently experienced in Murcia with an atmosphere infected by particles harmful to health in the air we breathe.

"We have to roll up all of us, starting at the local level." The City Council is the first administration that must react in the management of the most basic resources and close to the citizen, since it is responsible for managing the integral water cycle in the municipality, responsible for the most sustainable management of the water we drink, making it of the highest quality, with the least impact on consumption and carbon footprint, "said the secretary general of the Municipal Executive of the PSOE, who also stressed the need for a change of urban model.

"The City Council is also responsible for managing waste from homes and sometimes others that are abandoned and that constitute a real risk to health, while being responsible for putting the means to comply with European guidelines that require us the reduction of waste to objective 0 and the production of economic and ecological flows directed to that objective, for this, instead of continuing to make mountains and mountains of garbage, it is necessary to produce raw materials and economy that translates into jobs ", he has continued saying.

Reducing motorized traffic, betting on improving public transport, expanding the network of bike lanes and pedestrian zones, encouraging the use of electric vehicles and promoting the installation of renewable energies in companies and homes are aspects included in the PSOE program for the municipality.

"Defending the environment is not going out with a nice poster, as the current mayor of Murcia is used to doing," said Serrano, who advocates modifying the legal framework to favor the energy transition.

In this regard, he recalled that the Ministry of Ecological Transition has recently presented a draft Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition.

"Sustainable mobility and the application of geothermal or solar energy, which by the way is not enough for us, can not only reduce the environmental impact in cities, but also become new business opportunities for companies," said the PSOE candidate. direct this municipality in the next four years.

The conference 'Murcia, a sustainable municipality.

A look into the future ', has also had the intervention of Diego Conesa, Government delegate and candidate for the Presidency of the Autonomous Community, who has stressed the need to "create sustainable infrastructure to prevent Murcia from first and foremost second".

The secretary of Sustainability of the Municipal Executive, Paca Baraza, has also participated, for whom "the model of development of this municipality, with its complex territorial distribution and its loss of identity, far from correcting imbalances has accentuated them".

The day included a table moderated by José Zapata, Secretary of Waste and Economy of the Municipal Executive, and which was present the former Minister of Housing Beatriz Corredor, current Secretary of Planning Territory and Housing Policies of the Federal Executive of the PSOE.

"Taking into account that in the year 2020 56% of the population will reside in urban centers we must order how we are going to live in these agglomerations", said Corredor.

Together with her, her reflections have been shown by a series of professionals representing different institutions and collectives in Murcia.

Marcos Ros, of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, has assured that "the General Urban Plan, planned for speculation, not even speculating has come to develop 12% of what was planned."

Miguel Ángel Esteve, from the University of Murcia, commented that "the World Health Organization talks about half a million deaths per year due to contamination, which in Spain is 30,000" and has pointed out that "traffic must be reduced and the energies developed renewable, as well as increase the number of pollution measuring stations, make more of those measurements and inspections and publish the recorded data ".

Francisco Ruipérez, from La Costera Sur platform is also Murcia, he has treated what is a reality by saying that "young people are looking forward to turn 18 to get their driver's license and have their car because with the bus the day".

Juan Ramón Escoda, of the Association of Environmental Companies of the Region of Murcia, has highlighted the importance of "introducing the circular economy to a greater extent", which is interrelated with sustainability and its objective is that the value of the products, materials and resources remain in the economy for as long as possible and that "the generation of waste is minimized".

Emilio Ballester, of the Sustainable Development Foundation, said that "the future is not that we are only energy consumers but also producers" and that "the town councils should set an example with the use of the sun".

Pablo Cascales, from the Aguas de Murcia company, has spoken of "projects to recover irrigation water, the water table and drinking water".

After this table has been raised a dialogue with the attendees, which has been moderated by Carmen Lopez, Secretary of Infrastructure and Urbanism of the Municipal Executive, and has intervened the councilor of the Socialist Group in the City Council Juan Vicente Larrosa, who has shown " the concern "existing in the municipal PSOE for the treatment that is given to public transport in Murcia and which" must be thoroughly reviewed and not patched "and has appealed to the three companies concessionaires of the service go" hand in hand " .

For his part, Severiano Arias, manager of Tram of Murcia, has pointed out that "there is no need to refer to an expensive or cheap public service, but to an efficient service that meets the needs of mobility and real sustainability".

Source: PSOE Murcia