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| Murcia is one of the three Spanish capitals that have obtained the 2019 Reduzco Seal from the Ministry for reducing greenhouse emissions by 55% during the last three years | Murcia City Council has reduced its polluting emissions by 88% in the last 4 years.

The Councilor for Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, announced this morning that the Murcian Consistory has been one of the three in Spain, along with those of Madrid and Valladolid, that has achieved the Reduzco 2019 Seal awarded by the Ministry for Transition Ecological and the Demographic Challenge.Murcia has reduced the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by 55% in the 2017-2019 triennium compared to between 2016 and 2018.

In the last four, CO2 emissions have been reduced by 25,000 tons within the Murcian municipality.Energy efficiency in the services that the City Council provides to citizensThis reduction has been achieved by the City Council in its Carbon Footprint, that is, in the emissions derived from the services that the Murcian Consistory provides to its citizens, over which it exercises direct control through its management.The services and dependencies in which the Government Team has managed to maintain a general and continuous decrease in pollutant emissions over time are public schools, sports facilities, the Local Police, fuel consumption in the vehicles that make up the fleet municipal, municipal and institutional buildings, nursery schools, social housing, traffic lights, public lighting, fountains and irrigation systems.The mayor Navarro explained that "in the Government Team we are developing an environmental plan whose main objective is to reduce polluting emissions into the atmosphere.

Murcia, Madrid and Valladolid are the only Spanish capitals that have obtained the Reduzco 2019 Seal granted by the Government.

It is a sample of the achievements we are achieving to improve the environment.

"567 tons less CO2 in the last yearIn the last year, the City Council has stopped emitting 567 tons of CO2, going from 3,948 tons in 2018 to 3,381 last year.

The main savings are taking place in electricity, fuel, diesel, natural gas and fluorinated gases.The Consistory is applying a plan with concrete measures aimed at reducing polluting emissions.

A package of actions has made it possible to reduce energy consumption in municipal buildings by 5% through the implementation of actions such as the replacement of air conditioning equipment with more efficient ones, the renewal of lighting by the LED type, the monitoring of the electrical consumption and improvement of building envelopes.Consumption in public lighting has also been cut in half thanks to the renewal of sodium vapor luminaires with other LED types, which consume less and are more efficient.

The Government Team is also betting on the acquisition of electric or hybrid vehicles for the fleet owned by the City Council.

Similarly, the installation of LED technology in the lighting of all traffic lights in the municipality has contributed to reducing pollution.Emissions generated by transport have decreased more than 20% between 2015 and 2019The commitment to electric mobility has been included in the criteria for the public purchase of vehicles for the municipal fleet.

In 2017, the Local Electric Vehicle Strategy was launched, with measures that affected both the municipality of Murcia and the operation of the City Council itself.

Pollutant emissions derived from the use of municipal transport have fallen by 20.22% in the last 4 years, reducing the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by 2,000 tons.

 In addition, the new municipal electricity supply contract will include the option of acquiring 100% renewable energy with a certificate of guarantee of origin.

Likewise, the City Council is actively promoting self-consumption through a commitment to renewable energy.A good example of this is the self-consumption photovoltaic installation that has been set up in the municipal building located on Abenarabi Avenue.

It has a capacity of 20 kilowatts.

Similarly, the photovoltaic panels, inverter and batteries of the Majal Blanco self-consumption facility have been renewed.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia