The 9th UB-Torres Environmental Session debates whether European aids can end with climate inaction
19/05/2021
The University of Barcelona will hold on Wednesday June 2, the 9th Environmental Session, jointly organized with Torres Family and the meteorologist and lecturer of Physics of the UB Tomàs Molina. Under the motto “Money from Europe, will it help us to break with the current indifference regarding climate change?”, the meeting will gather twelve experts willing to analyse how European funds could unblock the government and society’s lack of actions regarding climate change.
This new edition of the Environmental Session will take place in the Paranimph of the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona with the attendance of fifty people, and will be live-streamed on the Youtube channel of the University. This is the first linked event to the Conference on the Future of Europe (COFE), to be held in Catalonia. This time, there will be a particip
Global warming is happening at an accelerating rate in Spain. In 2020, the average temperature in the country was 1.7 degrees Celsius higher than the average in preindustrial times, between 1850 and 1900. Whatâs more, the rate of warming has accelerated in the last few decades, rising a cumulative 1.3ºC in 60 years. Thatâs according to the executive report on the state of the climate in Spain in 2020, presented by the Spanish weather agency Aemet on Friday. The report warns that if greenhouse emissions continue at their current rate, the average temperature will rise 5ºC by the end of the century.
Limiting global warming to well below 2ºC by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the central goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Nearly half of all gases emitted accumulate in the atmosphere, which accelerates global warming, while the other 50% are absorbed by oceans and forests. In its report, Aemet explains that although the coronavirus lockdown led t
Spanish cement industry targets 43% emissions drop by 2030 Written by Global Cement staff
24 December 2020
Spain: The Spanish cement association Oficemen has targeted a 43% emissions drop by 2030 across its entire value chain compared to 1990 levels. The objective has been published as part of the association’s sustainability roadmap to 2050. It is a tightening of the previous target of 27% by 2030. Oficemen intends to meet the tougher reduction by using the so-called 5C approach - clinker, cement, concrete, construction and built environment, and (re)carbonation – as detailed by Cembureau, the European Cement Association. Oficemen also revealed that it is working with the Spanish Technological Platform for CO
Spainâs cement sector targets 43% emissions reduction by 2030 23 December 2020
The Spanish cement industry has set a target to reduce its carbon emissions by 43 per cent throughout its entire value chain by 2030 when compared with the 1990 baseline, according the sector’s “Roadmap of the Spanish cement industry to achieve climate neutrality in 2050”. The target sets an intermediate objective to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. To date the sector has reduced carbon emissions by 27 per cent since 1990.
To achieve this goal, Spanish cement association Oficemen has designed a strategy in line with the European Green Deal and which is based on the “5C Approach” – Clinker, Cemnet, Concrete, Construction and (re)Carbonation. The roadmap also analyses the key technologies that will enable this, as well as the necessary support from public administrations to drive this transformation, over the next 30 years.