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It is the first time is reached such agreement Cities undertake to introduce strategies to liberation of conventional vehicles and the promotion of electric cars

The basic principles to be followed by cities to implement a majority of electric mobility will be known henceforth as the "Agreement Murcia".

This was agreed today to members of the Red Civitas Spain and Portugal, met yesterday and today at City Hall in celebration of its third Forum, whose inauguration was chaired by the Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-Cachá.

Murcia The Agreement supports the need to encourage electric car use and the introduction of electric mobility in cities.

Also, it is intended that the suppliers offer vehicles at a competitive price, both to individuals and governments and aid available to finance local infrastructure to be implemented from both state governments and the Commission Europe, through the Structural Funds and Cohesion or new calls to address issues related to urban mobility power.

It is the first time an agreement is reached on this scale.

The Network brings together 30 municipalities in both countries concerned about sustainable mobility, energy conservation and emission reduction.

The way to achieve this is through improving health and air quality and reducing the impact on climate change and the cost of transport and mobility.

The network consists of cities such as Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, ​​Sevilla, Zaragoza, Porto, Vitoria, Santander, Bilbao, Girona and Murcia.

The cities integrated in the network maintain a political and technical commitment to introduce ambitious strategies regarding the change to the release of conventional vehicles and the promotion of electric mobility.

The common goal is to achieve standards of air quality and reducing CO2 emissions, knowing that urban transport contributes 70% of pollutants and the European Road Transport 40% of CO2 emissions, and the ambitious objectives set by the White Paper of the European Commission to release to the cities of conventional vehicles in 2050 and the movement of goods in 2030 free of CO2.

"To achieve this goal, Martinez recalled Cachá-cities are committed to supporting policies to promote sustainable electric mobility, exchange of experiences between cities to replicate best practices, efficient and intelligent use of resources (following the philosophy of the Smart Cities) and trying to introduce into our local political policies sustainable urban mobility electric long as we can. "

"Cities are responsible to meet these objectives in line with the subsidiarity principle," he assured Adela Martinez-Cachá, reason becomes very important collaboration and knowledge sharing with other cities, in this case on the electric mobility in cities in Spain and Portugal through Civinet Network.

En este sentido, la edil de Medio Ambiente considera –como recoge el Acuerdo de Murcia- que “sólo a través del trabajo: vertical (con la Comisión Europea), horizontal (con otras ciudades), y lateralmente (internamente, tanto técnicos como políticos, y públicamente, con los ciudadanos) lograremos una movilidad eléctrica urbana sostenibleâ€�.