Tag: green
Down in the dumps: Spain ignoring recycling targets
SPAIN has been ignoring critical European-wide waste recycling targets. The country has not just been missing a 50% recycling (or re-use) target set by the...
Beauty belies Spain’s toxic cover-up
AT FIRST GLANCE, you might think a sci-fi writer had dreamed up this polar scenery of ice-like foam sheets atop a dazzling green sea. Small...
Auf Wiedersehen PET! EU wants Spain to outlaw un-recyclable plastics in packaging
WHEN it comes to plastic bottles the EU is saying auf wiedersehen to PET and guten tag to r-PET. The Union’s European Circular Economy Strategy...
UNDER PRESSURE: Spain’s first high-pressure hydrogen refuelling station set up to prove viability of the green technology
SPAIN’s first high-pressure hydrogen refuelling station has been set up. With a supply capacity of 700 bar pressure, the new station is part of a...
From trash to cash: Company in Spain converting waste into environmentally friendly gas
SPANISH renewable energy company Norvento Enerxia is busy proving the old Yorkshire saying ‘where there’s muck there’s brass.’ It has launched an entire business line...
Spain’s Andalucia plans for an eco-revolution after coronavirus crisis exit
THERE may be an ecological silver lining to the COVID-19 crisis. Spain’s economy has suffered massively during the pandemic, with an expected 12.8% economic decline...
Spain ranks 14th on list of greenest countries worldwide, while the UK is fourth
SPAIN has ranked 14th on the list of greenest countries in the world, while the UK came in at an impressive fourth.
Spanish Government approves draft law introducing tax on plastic waste, expected to raise €724 million
THE Government has approved a draft law introducing a tax on plastic waste.
Rental car company on Spain’s Costa del Sol is using ozone generator to disinfect cars
A RENTAL car company on the Costa del Sol has started using an ozone generator to disinfect cars.
CO2 emissions in Spain decrease by 32% in April, much higher than the average worldwide drop of 26%
CO2 emissions in Spain have decreased by over a third in April, registering one of the highest drops in the world.
Two businessmen jailed for two years for illegally extracting water from Spain’s Donana National Park
TWO businessmen who illegally extracted water from Donana National Park have been jailed for two years.
Use of cars in Madrid rises, while use of public transport declines
THE use of cars in Madrid has risen in recent years, whereas the use of public transport has declined.
Andalucia’s Sierra Nevada ski resort launches ten-year ‘green’ plan in bid to eliminate carbon footprint
THE Junta de Andalucia has prepared a ten-year strategic plan to make Sierra Nevada as ‘green’ as possible.
EXCLUSIVE: Spain green group demands answers after rabbit decapitated and animals abused in THIS Costa del Sol park
Expats were quick to branded the unknown perpetrators as ‘pure evil’
Electricity giant to scrap dirty coal power station to cut costs in Spain’s Andalucia
The two plants would not have complied with emission limits imposed by the EU, which come into force on June 30, 2020.
Expats are out in force as global climate change protests hit the Costa del Sol
A week-long campaign has been launched to ‘bring an end to the age of fossil fuels and climate justice for everyone’.
Madrid bans old cars from city centre in CRACKDOWN on pollution
MADRID is banning aged cars from its city centre in a bid to reduce monster levels of air pollution. The vintage veto, coming into effect...
Environmentalists call for huge expansion of the Cabrera National Park
MALLORCA environmentalists want to expand the Cabrera National Park TENFOLD to 100,000 hectares. The Ministry of Ecological Transition has submitted a proposal to the...
More than 50% in Spain fear climate change is ‘threatening’ survival of human race
Some 64% believe it is already negatively affecting their health
Spain to close almost all coal mines and leave more than 1,000 out of work in latest step towards...
Over 1,000 miners and subcontractors will be made redundant by the new year closures
Spain takes big steps towards renewable energy
New data shows that 45.8% of electricity came from renewable resources
Andalucia tech company to send solar panels into space
The company aims to seize on a rising demand for panels attached to satellites
Mallorca celebrates a whale of a win as migration corridor becomes a protected area
THE WHALE corridor in the Mediterranean, which runs just North of Mallorca, has been declared a Protected Marine Area. The government approved a Royal Decree...
Spanish nuclear power plants have to stay in use for forty more years says leading energy chief
NUCLEAR power stations in Spain must remain active for another decade at least if the country wants to fulfill its obligations under the Paris...
Spain wages war on wet wipes
SPAIN is waging war on wet wipes … or, rather, the practice of flushing them down the loo. A call by the Grupo Parlamentario Vasco...
Big business urges Spain to pass climate change law and ‘transition to green energy’
MORE than two dozen multinational and medium-sized companies have signed a declaration calling for Spain to transition to green energy. Eleven out of the 30...
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A new pattern of less than 500 new COVID-19 cases per day is emerging in the Valencian Community, with 14-day cumulative infection rates now...
