The PSOE launches a line of ‘green’ microcredits with an annual return of 3% to finance itself

The PSOE has opened for the first time outside the electoral period a financing through microcredits to finance its ‘Green Light Plan’, which seeks a “sustainable and digital” party.

People who want to contribute to this socialist plan can lend between 500 and 10,000 euros to training with an annual return of 3 percent for three years.

“We have created a sustainable fund to which we encourage citizens and militants to collaborate,” said this Saturday the manager of the PSOE, Mariano Moreno, during his speech at a conference on Ecological and Digital Transformation, held by the Socialists on the occasion of the International Day against Climate Change.

This plan, which will be financed with an initial contribution of 4 million euros, aims to reduce the carbon footprint in socialist headquarters between 60% and 90% in 2023; visualize how the house of the people of the XXI century can be; improve digitalization and increase sustainability in party events.

During his speech, the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, stressed that mobility policies “are crucial” to reduce emissions and recalled that during the confinement the emission of greenhouse gases was reduced by up to 17% compared to the same period of the previous year.

Thus, he has pledged that socialists are “at the forefront of that intelligent, modern, sensible environmentalism” and “away from picturesque approaches”. “There are very reactionary sectors that make caricature of everything and for whom sustainability is a slogan of radical ecologists,” he criticized.

In this sense, Ábalos has affirmed that “environmentalism has long since ceased to be a fashion” and that ecological awareness “is a matter of survival”. “We have to fight coal and fossil fuels. Let’s make the ecological transition just,” he said.

The minister has insisted that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is “absolutely committed” to the cause of the climate challenge. “We have a lot of work ahead of us but we have plenty of desire, commitments and determinations,” he said.

In his words, coronaviruses “put the focus on the need to know, understand and take much more care” of man’s relationship with the environment. “Covid has highlighted the extent to which human beings can be vulnerable,” he warned.

The pandemic “should not be an excuse”

For her part, the deputy secretary general of the PSOE, Adriana Lastra, stressed that, although “a good part” of her efforts are focused on fighting the pandemic, that “should not be an excuse” to stop the fight against climate change. ”

Precisely, he has defended that the pandemic “will pass” and that when that happens the “great challenge” of curbing climate change “will continue to lead the problems”. “The fight against climate change is necessary,” he said.

The socialist has also stressed that a “just and responsible society needs the hand of the public”, which, in her words, “is the one that comes to help in floods or stop plagues”.

“We are going to need more responsibility, more public health, more research, more science, more coordination between countries and administrations, and more public commitment, because we have less and less time,” he said.

At this point, Lastra has asked to leave behind “the deniers” of climate change who “proliferate every day more among the right” and has criticized the right “that likes so much the there each one and the save who can”.

“There are no answers in ideologies that reduce everything to an economic value, there is no response to the pandemic and there is no response to climate change. You cannot put a price on lives and health,” he concluded.

Source: Expansión