The environmental organizations Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action and SEO/BirdLife call for more aid for biodiversity by 2011, as well as a "more ambitious" greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement from the Spanish Government by 2020.
The director of campaigns of Greenpeace, Mario Rodríguez, highlights that 2011 is a "key year" in the fight against climate change, while predicting that it will be the year in which Europe regains the leadership or loses it definitively in the matter and Spain has to be pushing "so that the EU does not disappoint the world".
"We don't want the minister to just paint the Ministry green. We want the Spanish Government to bet clearly on renewables, on the end of the overcapacity of our fishing fleet, on the paralysis of the process of choosing the location of the nuclear cemetery, "says the ecologist.
It also calls for next year an agriculture without transgenics, a chemical sustainability agency, a public purchasing policy that prevents the entry of wood from illegal logging. "We want the illegal hotel El Algarrobico to be demolished," he added.
For its part, Ecologists in Action states that in 2011, to fight against climate change, a change in energy policies is essential, as well as the abandonment of coal and other polluting energies, and their replacement by renewable energies.
Among its requests, it also adds less oil for fewer cars, as Ecologists in Action has been proposing every September 22 (the 'Day without cars'), as one of the key elements to improve the quality of life in cities.
Moreover, it indicates that in 2011 it is necessary to carry out the tax objection, by which the amount that goes to military expenses is deducted from the Personal Income Tax and is destined towards another organization that defends peace.
A RENEWABLE ENERGY LAW FOR 2011
On the part of WWF, the environmental organization insists on setting this goal of reducing CO2 emissions in Spain by 2020 and "more ambitious" than that agreed in the Kyoto Protocol for 2012, at the same time as approving a law on renewable energies and energy efficiency and achieving in Durban (South Africa) an ambitious climate agreement, fair and binding.
Definitively promoting the creation of the marine 'Natura 2000 Network' and establishing at least three new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), with processes of participation of the fishing sector and environmental organizations in the definition of management plans and monitoring of these areas, are other of its requests for 2011.
In addition, it wants by 2011 to guarantee adequate environmental flow regimes in rivers based on strictly technical criteria, and not political, that allow the recovery or maintenance of wetlands, while ensuring the legal and sustainable origin of the wood consumed in Spain and approving a State Plan for the Management of Forest Resources (PEORF) jointly with the autonomous communities.
MORE MARITIME DEMARCATION
Finally, SEO / BirdLife, requests a continuation with the work of demarcation of the maritime land public domain, in which it points out there is already less than 10 percent of the coast to demarcate.
"The Government of Spain has not initiated the sectoral plans that define what each of the ministries must do, or must stop doing to achieve the objectives of biodiversity conservation defined by the Law of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity," criticizes the NGO, while pointing out that the approval after its relevant public consultation should end in 2011 and has not yet begun.
Finally, he criticizes the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs because he says that he has not approved the new 'Catalogue of Threatened Species', with scientific criteria that include all the species really threatened, nor the 'Spanish Catalogue of Invasive Alien Species', nor the 'Spanish Catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance', which will include habitats in danger of disappearance. (EUROPA PRESS)
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