The plan of action approved in the last plenary session contains more than 140 projects which mean the reduction of approximately 100 thousand tons of CO2 to the atmosphere.
The Municipal Plenary Session held last 20th December, approved the “Plan of Action for the Sustainable Energy” (PAES): Strategy Calvià for the Climate 2013-2020", consisting of a series of projects which have as main objectives, the reduction to a 20% the CO2 emissions in Calvià and to a 25% the Town Hall´s emissions, facing towards year 2020.
The strategy Calvià for the climate 2013-2020 contains more than 140 projects which mean the reduction of approximately 100 thousand tons of CO2 to the atmosphere in Calvià, apart from various projects of citizen participation, communication, awareness and diffusion in aspects of sustainability and local climate change.
In large outlines, the Strategy Calvià for the climate 2013-2020 commits itself decisively for the expansion of the natural gas network in the municipality with the aim of finishing with the dependence of other fossil fuels highly pollutant and strongly consolidated in the municipality for heating and hot water, especially in the tourist sector.
Apart from their commitment with the natural gas, the combination of this energy source with renewable energies will be encouraged through the Strategy Calvià for the Climate 2013-2020, in search of the maximum environmental and economic efficiency with the technology available making the projects viable and in conclusion, the objectives of reduction of emissions planned, approachable.
A third action line within the reduction of CO2 emissions is focused in the sector of transport in Calvià, which its emissions represent the 20% of the municipality´s total emissions. The objective of the Strategy in transport is to promote the gradually introduction of clean vehicles in the municipality until 2020.
Both, the technology available and the current economic situation allow us to work successfully in this line of improvement of the environmental efficiency of the vehicle fleet of Calvià, for this reason they commit themselves decisively with gas, electric or hybrid vehicles and agreements with companies or institutions will be developed for the introduction of these technologies in the municipality (for instance, in 2011 an Agreement was signed with Repsol for the development and the promotion of gas vehicles, and recently an Agreeement with the Balearic Government was signed for the promotion of the electric vehicle in the municipality).
Finally, the Strategy Calvià for the climate 2013-2020 not only develops projects of reduction of emissions but also the projects of citizen participation, awareness and diffusion, take an important part of the Strategy.
In this sense, the commitment with the citizens and associations participation in the development of projects of the Strategy continues (reforestations, clean up of forests, beaches or the deep sea, etc); and in diffusion, as a long-term Strategy, the new technologies and the social networks through internet can not be set aside, thus a part from the traditional difussion mechanisms, the Calvià for the climate office´s Facebook page will constitute an important tool for the difussion of the projects and the objectives of the Strategy Calvià for the climate.