By Manuel Planellas
Electric cars still represent a negligible share of the total in Spain
Between 1995 and 2015, (click here) the death toll from natural disasters in Spain was 1,215. Flooding, for example, killed 328 people, and heat waves caused 178 deaths, according to figures from the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Emergencies.
The UN and a wide range of scientific bodies warn that climate change not only affects average temperatures, but also increases the number and intensity of natural disasters: they are a knock-on effect like the transformation of land into desert, and l to rising sea levels.
As a member of the EU and a signatory of the Paris climate agreement, Spain is aware of the need to eliminate the fossil fuels responsible for greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining economic growth. But the government’s own forecasts indicate that, far from reducing emissions, Spain is on course to increase them over the next 20 years. In 2040, the country will spill the equivalent of 353.7 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CDE) into the atmosphere, which will be 18 million tons more than in 2015....
