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Madrid Foresees A Greener Future. September 05, 2007
Spain’s proactive approach to tackling the spreading deserts makes it ideal for long-term property investment.
If you’re keen to live in a country where green issues are at the top of the agenda, you really can’t do better than Spain. The country’s proactive attempts to curb global warming have already led to the central government reducing energy consumption in its own buildings, with a goal of saving at least nine per cent by 2012 and 20 percent by 2016.
So Madrid was the obvious location for the United Nations-sponsored conference examining the threat of the global spread of deserts, which runs until September 14th.
Prince Felipe, heir to the Spanish throne, opened the conference with a speech, saying, “We should never forget that the impact of desertification is not only felt in zones where the problem originates, but also in areas much further away.”
The 12-day gathering of more than 2,000 senior politicians and experts is the eighth conference of the 191 nations that have signed the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), which was adopted in Paris in June 1994.
Spain has more areas of unspoilt wilderness than any other country in Europe, but these areas need to be protected.
More than one-third of Spain’s surface faces significant risk of desertification, according to the Spanish environment ministry, and Almería is home to Europe’s only desert. The Canary Islands are also considered to be at high-risk of desertification.
The country is well aware of these risks, and Sunseed Desert Technology is a non-profit organisation that has been developing ways to rehabilitate Spain’s desert areas since 1986.
Located in the tiny village of Los Molinos del Rio Aguas, Almería, Sunseed is run chiefly by volunteers who help with environmental research into desert studies, soil rehabilitation, permaculture techniques and sustainable living.
The Madrid conference’s aim is to identify funding priorities and adopt a new ten-year strategy to stem desertification, set measurable objectives and offer a realistic timetable for achieving them.
The country’s ongoing attempts to ensure a greener future means that property investors seeking a sunny, but ecologically-sound location, should consider Spain.
Story from homesworldwide.co.uk