The Paris Agreement It is a historic event in which more than 103 countries have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this way, human impacts on the climate are reduced and the devastating effects of climate change are diminished.
However, in this fight against climate change that seems historic and has great repercussions on a global scale, Spain does not seem to be participating. Despite the fact that Spain is one of the countries most vulnerable Faced with the effects of climate change, it has not yet ratified the Paris Agreement.
The main Spanish environmental organizations have denounced the poor performance that Spain has in the climate summit held in Marrakech (COP22). The Spanish government led by Mariano Rajoy it has not yet ratified the Agreement. Because Spain has been with a government in office for 10 months, the Agreement has not been ratified. In contrast to the good technical work of the Office of Climate Change, the political profile of the Government at this COP does not get approved. The fact that President Mariano Rajoy did not attend the climate summit confirmed that, on his agenda, climate change is relegated to the category of anecdote.
According to the most important Spanish environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Ecologists in Action, WWF and SEO / BirdLife, Spain has attended the climate summit just as it did the Paris summit. That is, without any progress on climate change issues.
The Spanish government is behind on climate change issues. It is surpassed by countries such as Germany, France, Portugal, Sweden or even the post-Brexit United Kingdom itself.
At the end of the climate summit in Marrakech, the environmentalists agreed to call on all political forces with parliamentary representation in Spain to convert the fight against climate change "In a central axis of this Legislature of consensus", since "it would be a failure for everyone if it were not like that".