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The commitment of local government also plans to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020. The Agency for Energy and Climate Change is already working on the development of a local strategy that brings together the actions that must be executed to achieve these objectives.
Alfonso X has hosted the reading of a manifesto on the occasion of International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.
Murcia should reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 20% and increase the use of renewable energy by 20% by 2020. That is the Council's commitment and this has been mentioned this morning, in reading a manifesto on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, incorporated into the programming of the Mobility Week begins today.
Participated in the ceremony the vice dean of the College of Biologists, Herminio Picazo, journalist specializing in environmental issues Truth Miguel Angel Ruiz and Roque Ortiz councilors and Lola Sanchez, along with students from the College Cierva Peñafiel.
The mayor also wanted to be present but failed to intervene due to hoarseness.
To achieve these objectives, the City Council through the Local Agency for Energy and Climate Change (GER) is already working on the new strategy for the period 2015-2020, that will include a series of actions aimed at reducing gas emissions greenhouse produced in the city by urban activity.
In addition, you will collect other specific actions to help mitigate the effects that climate change is occurring in the environment, mainly due to rising temperatures and decreasing water availability, and to which we must act to minimize impact on the population.
In this new Local Strategy to Combat Climate Change highlighted the need to develop and use ("smart") efficient technologies that make more sustainable use of natural resources and strengthen the municipal commitment to reduce energy consumption in installations and facilities municipal responsibility for consequently also reduce CO2 emissions.
Murcia was one of the first Spanish cities to react to the effects of climate change by adhering to the European Mayor`s Adapt initiative, which seeks the commitment of mayors to fight actively against the consequences of climate change and take steps to soften its impact.
28 years of the Montreal Protocol
In 1994, the General Assembly proclaimed September 16 as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer to commemorate the date on which the Protocol was signed in Montreal in 1987 on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, a fragile layer of gas that protects the Earth from harmful solar rays and therefore helps preserve life on the planet.
By action of various chemicals used worldwide, this layer has been wearing out to the point of endangering human health.
According to scientific evidence, we are far from full recovery of the ozone layer, which can not be achieved until about 2050, and only if all countries are truly committed to the obligations they have acquired through Montreal Protocol.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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