The current management of the Spanish Ministry of Transport is working on several fronts to promote sustainable mobility in the country.
The ministry is fine-tuning the Sustainable Mobility Law with incentives, allocating European funds and carrying out different plans to promote the use of light vehicles such as bicycles.
The Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda Minister, Raquel Sanchez, points out that the main objective is to turn Spain into a world reference for sustainable mobility.
She stresses that the Sustainable, Safe and Connected Mobility Strategy is one of the pillars of a policy through which the axes of the new mobility have been aligned with the transformation of cities driven by the Spanish Urban Agenda and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
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Independence and Innovation
“It is key in a reindustrialization that has to guarantee Europe’s strategic autonomy and correct the excessive dependence that the successive crises we have suffered have revealed in areas such as energy, health, digitization, technology or food,” said the minister.
Sánchez assured that it is a great opportunity to lead the economy of the future from talent, innovation, renewable energies and the most advanced infrastructures, because “in Europe and in the environmental adaptation of the productive model are the keys to our prosperity.”
The civil servant pointed out that this is a sustainability that harbors the ambitious objective of achieving climate neutrality in 2050, as established in the European Green Pact, and that its first milestone is 2030, where the reduction of net greenhouse gas emissions will have to reach at least 55% in relation to 1990 levels.
She also considers that halting environmental degradation is not only an imperative of the climate emergency, the consequences of which are already devastating the planet, but is also economically profitable.
Sanchez also mentioned the new transport system being implemented in Spain, which he described as much more than a reaction to the consequences of the climate emergency crisis.
She hopes that transport will serve as a benchmark for new mobility and become the best showcase for those pursuing similar goals.
