Brussels asks Spain to improve its adaptation to climate change and warns about its interconnections

The European Commission believes that Spain must improve or detail its measures in terms of adaptation to climate change and carbon capture and storage, and warned that its energy interconnections, like those of France, are far from the target for 2030. This is stated in the report that the institution published this Wednesday – one month after the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula, without the causes being known yet – to jointly evaluate the national energy and climate plans (PNIEC) of the member states.

“While Member States such as Luxembourg, Slovenia, Latvia and Hungary have already far exceeded the EU’s interconnectivity target of 15% by 2030, some countries such as Spain, Greece, Italy and France fall significantly short,” the text states.

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