The driver of the European Union’s “20-20-20” programme stated that renewable energies are an opportunity to achieve competitive prices, create employment and make technology available
The expert in the power market and founder of the Technology Research Institute at the Comillas Pontifical University, Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, also took part in the event and highlighted the importance of distributed resources in the energy market of the future.
Representatives from the Spanish government, the Valencia Regional Government, the Council of the capital of Turia, the Naturgy Foundation and the UIMP met today to discuss the issue of urban pollution as a priority for improving people’s quality of life.
Every year, the Valencia Regional Government assigns €700,000 to the maintenance of the Atmospheric Pollution Surveillance and Control Network of Valencia.
Representatives from the institutional, academic and business sectors will appear in the capital of Turia from tomorrow until Thursday to cover the various perspectives of atmospheric pollution, which affects nine in ten people living in the city, according to the WHO.
The Naturgy Foundation today presented ‘La fiscalidad energética. Sentido, objetivos y criterios’, a book which identifies and describes the taxes and tax charges levied on the various stages of the energy cycle.
Together with Berlin and the region of Lombardy, the City Council of Madrid presented the plans they have implemented to combat urban pollution and improve air quality at an event where the WHO warned that 91% of the global population is breathing in polluted air.
Poor air quality in the EU represents an annual cost of 24 billion euros, said Daniel Calleja, Director-General for the Environment of the European Commission.
Today, Pamplona hosted a seminar about the role of the circular economy in the energy transition with experts from the institutional, university and business fields a few days after the Navarre government approved the Agenda for the Development of the Circular Economy in Navarre with a 2030 horizon.
Shortly after being implemented in Central Madrid, today, the capital holds a new Naturgy Foundation seminar where experts in the institutional, university and business fields gather to highlight that air quality and control of emissions remain key factors in the design of urban mobility.
Today, Madrid held the “Challenge of energy poverty: causes and proposals” event where national and international experts analysed the measures being implemented to reduce energy poverty both globally and in Spain.
Oxford University professor, Brenda Boardman, said that to ease this situation “we must start with the houses in the poorest conditions, without imposing a cost on vulnerable families”.
Earlier today, Guadalajara hosted a training seminar by the Naturgy Foundation at which various representatives from the central, regional and local government, as well as experts from the sector, examined local pollution, its effects on health and the measures in place to combat it.
Cantabria hosted a training seminar by the Naturgy Foundation at which various experts examined the future outlook for power consumption and explained how current technology is helping to generate power offshore while safeguarding the environment.
The event was attended by representatives from the Regional Government of Cantabria, the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of Cantabria, APPA Renovables, REPSOL, the Port of Vigo and Naturgy.
