California upholds the law of climate change

While all the spotlights pointed to the referendum on the legalization of marijuana, California voted controverido quietly on another issue: the law of climate change.
     Despite the rain of millions of oil companies such as Valero or Tesoro, despite the money made from Kansas by brothers David and Charles Koch, 60% of Californians are defending the law and have defeated the "skeptics" in an unprecedented referendum.
    Proposition 23, which sought to invalidate the action was climate change, has been parked at the polls. The law requires the reduction of CO2 emissions in 2020 from 1990 levels therefore remains in force at the eighth economic power in the world, but in Washington would prefer not to hear and the Law of climate change.

Law of climate change

To Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the law in 2006, has been a personal revenge on the line. "Do not let the Texas oil decide California's energy future," said "Governatorato" in the final stretch of its mandate, nestled in the ranks of Hollywood (with James Cameron to front) and Silicon Valley (Sergey Brin, Gordon Moore) and the Law of climate change.

Neither Schwarzenegger's unpopularity, rampant unemployment and 12% have discouraged Californians, who have decided to continue down the path of renewable and send a powerful signal to the "new majority" in the Capitol.   
In the Mojave Desert, meanwhile, begins in the coming weeks to build the world's largest solar power plant with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, enough to power more than 600,000 households. As in many other occasions, despite its profound contradictions, California is ready to show the rest of the country that another future is possible and the Law of climate change.
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Environmentalists call for a 'Law of Climate Change "to force to reduce CO2

The environmental organization Friends of the Earth considers essential the creation of a 'law against climate change' on Spain, which regulates and establishes the safe reduction of emissions of polluting gases into the atmosphere as the only way to tackle this serious problem.

So says the report 'Opportunities for Climate Change Law in Spain based on carbon budgets', which have submitted and which have designated as priority projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and the constitution legal legislative framework.

For the charge of the area of climate change Friends of the Earth, Alejandro González, is "setting annual targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases of at least 3% and force governments to fulfill their commitments."
For carbon budget, say the ecologists, the term "the establishment of an emission limit that can be released in a given period of time by a group of sectors or entities."The Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in 2005 and ended in 2012, sets limits on emissions of greenhouse gases in industrialized countries and Spain committed (within EU) condemned Gonzalez not to increase their emissions GHG in the period beyond 15% over 1990. "

The impact of the crisis

The evolution of gas emissions in Spain has been increasing until the year 2007 that were released into the atmosphere 437.677 million tonnes of CO2, to start a drop from 2008 when they fell to 405 048 tonnes of CO2, complaint Friends of the Earth, citing figures from the administration.

The NGO attributes this reduction in 2008 "to a significant increase in renewable energy and economic wear by the economic crisis in Spain but not suffer a serious government policy."
For environmentalists, the solution lies in implementing a climate change law based on carbon budgets that help establish the foundation for climate justice. "
Since the organization is to strengthen the national and international policy framework and put a cap on GHG emissions in each sector issuers for a period of time annually.

Environmentalists call for a Law of Climate Change

Thus, there is a mechanism for secure and controlled reduction with each responsible for the emissions has a legal obligation to reduce them and agrees to budget planning in advance by creating a predictable economic scenario in the long term.
The report is part of the campaign of Friends of the Earth's climate SOS, called "The Big Ask" in Europe, demand in 18 countries national legislation to reduce GHG emissions annually.

This report is the first to introduce these concepts in Spain, "said Alejandro González and" we expect the approach to policy-makers, economic sectors and the Spanish civil society. "