Little by little, but with a firm step and good objectives in the future: it is the path that Spain leads and that is reflected in environmental advances that have taken the country to be one of the few that has more than 30% of its earth’s surface protected.
Regarding the protected marine surface (as explained by the Secretary of State for Environment, Hugo Morán, in the Senate) The percentage is 21% and works to increase it by four points when it ends this year.
In this way, Morán recalled, before the Ecological Transition Commission, he will work to reach the 30% objective when the year 2030 arrives.
With more than 30% of its protected earth’s surface, Spain walks with a passage signature in environmental advances
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, has defended this Monday before the Senate Ecological Transition Commission compliance by the government of its environmental objectives, since Spain is “one of the few countries that exceeds 30 % of protected earth’s surface.”
Morán has added that the protected marine surface already exceeds 21 % and that 25 % will be reached this year, which will allow Achieve the 30 % set as a goal for 2030.
The Secretary of State has been asked by the PP senator Francisco Javier Márquez about the degree of compliance with the legislative objectives of the Ministry for ecological transition and demographic challenge (Miteco) in the last year and about the effectiveness of its environmental policy in relation to the commitments of the European Union (EU).
Morán has assured that they are currently immersed in the early stages of the third cycle of planning of the coast and the sea and has also disconnected the Government from the open violation file by the European Union for “not arriving in time in the elaboration of hydrological plans.”
As noted, this infraction has had as a cause that the intra -community basins of Andalusia and the Canary Islands “did not approve in time and form their hydrological planning”, when the basins that correspond to the ownership of the State did.
“In the event that there was a sanction for breach, it would be the responsible autonomous community that would assume the consequences, not the Government of Spain,” he said.
Finally, he has indicated that from the government they have arranged the funds of the Recovery, transformation and resiliencethat improve their ability to act and that of the country, “those who were the Popular Party to Brussels to try to dynamite,” he said.
Specifically, he has indicated that in the case of costas They suppose approximately some 300 million euros and their forecast is to execute them “in their entirety.” EFE / ECOTICIAS.com