Highest levels of CO2 emissions in Spain come from Andalucía
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 @ 10:40 AM
ANDALUCÍA has the heaviest carbon footprint in Spain and is responsible for 18.11 per cent of all CO2 emissions in the country, according to a recent report.
In total, industry, traffic and energy use sends off 24.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, says the Business and Climate Foundation in its annual review of Spain's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
Asturias – surprisingly, given that it is one of Spain's least-industrialised regions with much lower airport traffic than in coastal tourist belts – has the second-worst record, accounting for 13.25 per cent of the country's emissions.
In fact, the northern region's performance may be even worse in real terms, since it is only a fraction of the size of Andalucía, which covers the whole of the south coast and over 200 kilometres inland.
The same applies to Galicia, again one of Spain's smaller and less-industrial regions, in the far north-west: its contribution to the nation's carbon footprint is 10.7 per cent, equal to that of the much larger Catalunya, home to beach tourist resorts, the second-largest city in the country – Barcelona – and an international airport with regular flights travelling to every continent.
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