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Comenius Project 2009-2010
Lahr Second Year Meeting
Good Practice examples
of politician projects
Politicians Stance About Climate Change
Politicians around the world are having a very wide attitude
about this problem. In the last Copenhague conference they
tried to reach an agreement post-Kyoto but they did not
have too good results
In spite of this, they are still
working on this problem
because the recent
eathquakes in Haiti and
Chile have triggered some
suspicions and social
alarms about its possible
relation with the global
warming
Haiti, 2010
Europe’s Position and Project in Global
Tourism
The tourism sector represents a huge and important part of Europe’s
economy because in this continent it’s concentrated approximately a
40% of the international tourist arrivals. This causes that the
enviromental problems related to tourism in Europe become even
more important because of the:
 Increase of the energy expenditure.
 Increase of the public transport.
 Higher consumption of water.
Besides all the increases mentioned above,
Europe must confront the challenge of
maintaining and strengthening its position in a really competitive
market
Europe’s Position and Project in Global
Tourism
Madrid Declaration
It’s an innovator and recent project that sets out a serie of recommendations that
emphasizes the promotion of responsible tourism. Some of its objectives are:
 To provide access to holidays to groups of economically disadvantaged .
 Promote the consumption of ecological products and the responsability while
we’re staying in another country.
Spain’s Projects About
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable Tourism Spanish Plan
Spain is one of the European countries with the largest number of tourists and ,
also, protected natural areas and it is really important the conservation of
these areas just because some of them are unique in the world. The objectives
of these plans are:
( Doñana, Natural
Area, Spain )
 To protect natural areas
Increase the competitiveness in Spain’s tourism sector
 Promote the incorporation of enviromental manage sistems like the Blue
Flag program that distinguishes the beaches with better environmental quality.
Tourism Plan 2020
Spain’s Projects About
Sustainable Tourism
It is a plan that aims at the fulfillment of requirements for 2020. This date was not
chosen randomly it is also adhered to the Spanish Strategy on Climate Change
and Clean Energy with which it has some points in common and which works in
its objective. That plan sets out as objectives:
 Increasing the Spanish tourist system always trying to get the maximum leave
for sustainability and thinking about the environmental carrying capacity
 Increase the interest of citizens towards tourism and sustainable development
in general because it’s growing the social interest towards environmental issues
 Improve the sustainability of Spanish tourism model, optimizing the benefits
because of the investment in this area and ensure the quality of natural and
cultural environment of each place, integration and social welfare
Spain’s Projects About
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable Mobility Project
One of the challenges of the developed societies in terms of mobility is to
move towards economic models of low carbon and low energy
consumption, for example, the challenge of sustainability:
Strong demand growth .
New quality and safety requirements of infrastructure.
Need to strengthen links with neighbouring countries .
Increased number and distance of motorized travel .
The energy consumed by the transport sector accounts for more than
40% of the national total energy remains one of the main drivers of growth
in emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions.
Project of Geological
Storage of CO2
The strong economic growth in our society since the past century has been
associated with a remarkable increase in the energetic consumption.
However, this same increase, and especially the fact of being based on a
energy model strongly focused on the use of fossil fuels causes
environmental and economic problems which could end up slowing the
development and affect the welfare of humanity. The objectives are:
 Ecologically capture and store carbon from industrial facilities and
transport to a suitable place.
 Decide on a technical framework, legal and economic to ensure that both
transportation and its geologic Injection is carried out in an environmentally
sustainable ecosystem.
Conclusion
The climate change is a very important and visible affair nowadays and
damages the world in quite a lot different ways. In my opinion,
politicians are not making the right decision about this business:
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They have not talked about the plans and projects, they have only
argued about each other’s politics.
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The citizens are not aware about the problems the world is
passing through.
I think that, in the other good hand, they are at least talking about plans
and projects about this world’s state and this means, they are
interested in changing our situation. My idea is that maybe they
should make these things, these plans, more approaching to the
people in every country because the citizens are not, as I have
already said, well informed.