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The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday an agreement approving the Declaration of Climate and Environmental Emergency of Spain, with which the Government undertakes to adopt 30 priority lines of action and five of them in the first hundred days of Government , to fight against climate change.

During the press conference following the Council of Ministers, the spokeswoman, María Jesús Montero, said that the approval is in line with what was approved in the European Union in this regard. In this way, Montero has assured that the Government places climate change and the just transition as a transversal axis promoting policies.

Thus, he pointed out that the objective of this declaration is to achieve a project of a common future, more just and equitable, that takes advantage of the opportunities of ecological transition through transverse public policies that place the citizen in the center.

The Congress of Deputies approved last September a motion urging the Executive to declare the climate emergency in Spain. This parliamentary initiative was aimed at urgently arbitrating mitigation and adaptation measures in the face of the climate and ecological crisis, although its content was less ambitious than expected, because the Government was not yet fully operational.

The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, already emphasized in his investiture speech that he would place the ecological transition "in the front line" of the new Executive with the approval of a Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition "with ambitious objectives" in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

The objective will be to achieve in 2050 a generation of electricity with 100% renewable origin, and between 85% and 95% in 2040.

The declaration of climatic emergency by the Spanish Government is preceded by recent similar resolutions at the end of 2019, such as the one of the City Council of Madrid and the European Parliament and other more recent this year of the City Council of Barcelona and the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

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