Greenhouse gas emissions are big news around the world and an EU list has put Spanish emissions at the top of a European league table.Spain has had the least success at cutting greenhouse gases.In order to meet the Kyoto targets Spain will have to cut emissions by 25% by 2012.
In 1990 the EU allowed Spain to increase its emissions by 15% because of its poor economy.Sadly by 2007 the economy was booming because of the construction industry and emissions had gone up by over 50%.The only way that Spain can hit its targets is to buy up the credits made by countries which have already met theirs.This doesn’t seem quite fair when one country has worked hard and another has done next to nothing.Madrid has recently purchased 25 million euros worth of credit from Poland.The UK,France and Germany have all met their targets.They meet between them 40% of the total necessary for Kyoto,conequently the EU is on track to meet the overall targets.Soon the Copenhagen conference will take place to seek agreement on what happens after 2013.
The education of the masses is also of huge importance here as if each and every household were told just how they could each do their “bit” towards cutting greenhouse gases then the population as a whole would have a massive effect.
