Congress postpones until 2021 the processing of the climate change law that will no longer be approved before March

The table of the Commission for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has agreed to postpone the parliamentary processing of the climate change bill until after Reyes and not to meet in presentation until the month of January, a period that is not normally skillful, but whose authorization will request in the coming days of the Government.

As reported to Europa Press parliamentary sources, the postponement has been agreed this Friday, precisely on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement and the day on which the European Commission has agreed to raise the threshold for reducing CO emissions₂ 40 to 55 percent by 2030.

The climate change bill thus suffers a new delay and will not see the light at least until the end of March according to these sources, who calculate that during the week of January 10 the presentations will be resumed and after three or four sessions the opinion will be agreed in the Commission for the Ecological Transition.

The reasons for the delay that justify these sources are due to the workload during this last month in the Lower House since the deputies have been more focused on the processing of the General State Budgets for 2021 and the fact that the climate change bill has more than 700 amendments.

For this reason, Members will take the weeks of Christmas to analyze in detail the texts with the aim of achieving a text of broad consensus afterwards.

Once the project has been ruled, it must go through its debate in the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies and then continue its legislative processing in the Upper House.

However, these sources foresee that the text will be processed in the Senate as a matter of urgency but even so, given the legislative deadlines, it would be difficult for Spain to definitively count on a Climate Change Law that accumulates years of delay.

Source: Europe Press