Local Government Network says municipalities are first stair sustainability.
Segovia, June 21 .- The national policies and transnational environmental sustainability in the municipalities are the first step to ensure proper application, mainly aiming to set population and ensure the care of the environment as a basis for economic development.
So he said today in San Ildefonso (Segovia) the president of the Local Government Network + Biodiversity 2010 Spanish Federation of Municipalities and, sto energy credits, Provinces (FEMP) and head of the Deputation of Guadalajara, Maria Antonia Lopez, who opened the session work of the Third Meeting of Local Governments for Diversity, involving mayors, elected officials and technicians of the 217 municipalities integrated into this network.
At a press conference, Maria Antonia Lopez stressed the importance of this is framed in, ffxiv gil, the International Year of Biological Diversity and has indicated that this meeting laid the foundations for the work to be done by the municipalities of the network for the next ten years .
The President of the Provincial Alcarria recalled that the Network of Local Governments initialed on May 21 in which a manifesto pledge to "preserve biological diversity and to incorporate this principle in, sto credits, its municipal and provincial policies, especially in planning instruments and land use. "
Among the recommendations included in the manifesto is designed to protect ecosystems, species and ecological corridors, as well as increase the number of parks and green procurement policies to promote products and services.
In this sense, has indicated that municipalities "are the first step and sometimes the last to implement effective environmental policies, because that is where they are applied directly to all environmental initiatives emanating from European regulators, regional or national."
Lopez has said that municipalities "are increasingly responsible for environmental actions, because there is an opportunity to secure employment and to ensure sustainable social and urban development."
Similarly, stressed the important place occupied by Spain in the European biodiversity and has indicated that the entire country there are 10,000 different plant species representing 80 percent of those in the entire European Union and 60% of across the continent.
In addition, Spain has indicated that it has the largest biotic wealth of Western Europe, with a total of more than 50,000 animal species, representing more than 50 percent of those in the European Union.
On the other hand Maria Antonia Lopez highlighted the "hard work" of the Web in just four years of existence, with programs and initiatives like the creation of draft environmental volunteer programs or educational programs such as "+ Bio + Life" who have participated in a total of 17 schools throughout Spain.
The Third Meeting will conclude tomorrow with the reading of the findings of various working groups carried out, as well as the delivery of the educational program awards winning schools in the various categorias. 1010614 mgm / PDDP / mmc