Spain led Europe in new solar, wind capacity in 2019
Spain took the lead among European countries in 2019 in the installation of both photovoltaic solar capacity and wind-powered electricity installation according…
Environment & Sustainability
Activists oppose hotel planned for Almeria natural park
The Partido Popular-led right-wing regional government of Andalucía is on the verge of approving construction of a four-star hotel with 33 rooms,…
Shuttered coal-fired plants not replaced by renewables
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
Judges overrule PP’s veto of Madrid Central traffic fines
Two local judges have cancelled the year-long moratorium on the payment of fines by motorists for driving vehicles in downtown Madrid in…
Cities look to cycling as safe post-lockdown transport
Several Spanish cities are joining a move by authorities in major urban areas worldwide to create more cycling lanes in order to…
Spain wins UN arbitration against goldmine in Galicia
Canadian mining company Edgewater has lost an international arbirtration claim for compensation for a goldmine in the province of A Coruña closed…
NO2 pollution and diesel linked to COVID-19 death rate
New research correlating air pollution levels and COVID-19 deaths in Europe has singled out the Spanish capital of Madrid and northern Italy…
In midst of crisis, Europe’s largest solar park goes online
In the midst of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has flipped the switch on Europe’s largest solar energy facility, bringing…
Spain’s air pollution falls 55% during coronavirus crisis
Air pollution across Spain fell by more than half in the last two weeks of March, with air contamination in Madrid and…
Iberian lynx reintroduced into Castilla-La Mancha wild
Regional government officials in Castilla-La Mancha have announced the release of an 11-month-old Iberian lynx into the Montes de Toledo, bringing to…
Redexis jumps into Spain’s solar energy market
Spanish natural gas utility Redexis is jumping headlong into Spain’s booming solar energy market, having signed an agreement with the national appliance…
Endesa powers retail fashion stores with renewables
Nearly 800 stores of the retail fashion chain Tendam, which includes stores operating under the Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro, Springfield, Women’secret and…
Major retailers jump into Spain’s booming solar market
The Spanish subsidiary of French home-improvement chain Leroy Merlin is about to have some company in Spain’s retail solar-panel market, as Ikea,…
Spain second in European wind-power growth last year
Spain installed the second-highest capacity of wind-generated electricity in Europe last year, coming second only to the United Kingdom and ranking ahead…
Solar energy boom in Spain as foreign investment grows
Solar energy in Spain hit an all-time peak production record last week as foreign fossil-fuel companies scramble to get in on the…
Endesa set to build largest solar operation in Andalucía
The green power subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Endesa has been granted a license to build a new photovoltaic solar power plant…
McDonald’s bans plastic straws, vows 40% plastics cut
McDonald’s Spain has announced that as of 24th February it will no longer provide plastic straws to customers, part of its plan…
Spain signs up to global ‘climate emergency’ movement
In its Consejo de Ministros cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Spain’s new coalition government agreed to issue a formal Declaration of Climate and…
Fourth V-P to push transition toward green economy
Incoming President Pedro Sánchez revealed on Thursday that the cabinet of his new progressive coalition government will be headlined by four vice-presidencies,…
How does your supermarket rate on reducing plastics?
Amid growing consumer pressure and a government push for reduction of single-use plastics so as to meet ambitious EU recycling targets for…
Iglesias to coordinate ‘Agenda 2030’ for coalition gov’t
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
Greenalia opens first of five Galicia wind-energy parks
Spanish wind energy producer Greenalia has brought online the first of five wind-energy parks it expects to build this year in Galicia,…
Oxfam: Spain’s richest pollute most, poor pay the price
The Spanish affiliate of international development aid agency Oxfam says in a new report that the richest households in Spain pollute twice…
Greta Thunberg joins Madrid climate change protests
Thousands of protesters of all ages joined Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in marching through downtown Madrid Friday to demand concrete…
Sánchez commits Spain to slash carbon 30pct by 2030
Acting President Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that Spain is committing to a sharp reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming and…
Madrid Central cut emissions by 20 percent in first year
The Madrid Central anti-pollution plan put in place under the progressive administration of former Mayor Manuela Carmena significantly reduced air-contamination in Spain’s…
#VIDEO Greenpeace protests Black Friday consumerism
Activists from Greenpeace España unfurled a banner on Friday in downtown Madrid to protest the consumerism of ‘Black Friday’ sales promotions in…
Study shows climate change hits women & girls hardest
Climate change is multiplying the inequality and discrimination faced by women and girls in the developing world, according to a new study…
Extinction Rebellion Spain activists join hunger strike
Climate-change activists belonging to the Spanish affiliate of the global climate-action group Extinction Rebellion Spain have joined the weeklong hunger-strike that kicked…
Gov’t agencies join trend to generate own solar energy
Spain’s self-generated solar energy movement appears to be booming just one year after the Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez scrapped the…
Spain to host UN’s COP25 Climate Change Conference
The United Nations has agreed to Spain’s offer to host the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid in early…