Arias Cañete: 'Spain is able to meet Kyoto' - The Mundo.es

Typhoon Haiyan ‘, which has claimed more than 10,000 lives in the Philippines, is located in front of new climate change information. The emotional speech by the leader of the Asian country and starting a hunger strike at the UN climate summit taking place in Warsaw (Poland) increased pressure on the meeting and urged world leaders to take action against global warming. The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, would not miss the opportunity and announced yesterday that, in the absence of the latest inventory data, Spain, “despite the pessimistic predictions of some, is able to comply with the first period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012), whose accounts will surrender in 2015. “

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used the presentation of the Environmental Profile of Spain 2012, the x-ray report the environmental situation of the country, to present major advances in climate . “We emissions of greenhouse gases by 21% above the levels of the reference year 1990. And you know that the Protocol be allowed 15% greater than those of the year, “the minister said yesterday.

However, as said, to meet its commitments until 2012 government has invested 800 million euros on purchases of emission rights. “But we have taken a turn for climate change policy, and instead of buying allowances to third countries, we have moved to reduce emissions in our territory,” said Cañete.

However, the minister did not believe the allegation by the Philippine representative to the UN climate summit, Yeb Sano, will absolutely alter the course of the meeting preset UN expert. Cañete, accompanied by Secretary of State for the Environment, Federico Ramos, said the Warsaw summit “will be important to consolidate in Paris [the summit will take place there in 2015] a binding agreement, which also has the most players, the major emitters like the U.S. or China. “

In any case, in his opinion may leave the meeting in Poland, which will end on November 22, no binding document “because there is no time to do ‘as Cañete. “But if the Philippine representative speech that serves to satisfy themselves warm, so be it,” he said.