19 Dec, 2009 @ 01:01
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Too hot to handle?

HOLIDAYMAKERS and businesses will be in need of cool heads more than ever next summer.

For the Spanish Cabinet has risked their wrath by limiting the use of air conditioning in a bid to reduce energy consumption.

In a bid to hit crucial emission targets, and as the climate summit landed in Copenhagen, the government announced that public buildings including shops, bars, airports, cinemas and railway stations will not be able to lower temperatures below 26C.

In the winter, heaters cannot be turned up above 21C.

The latest measures come as part of Spain’s newly unveiled Strategy for Sustainable Economic Growth, due to start next year.

The policy aims to reduce the nation’s reliance on construction, and instead focus on a more sustainable path for economic growth.

Reforms include tax breaks for innovative companies and the promotion of investment in the renewable energy sector.

To achieve its objectives, the government has created a 20 billion euro money pot.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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