Large companies are required to have sustainable mobility plans to work

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Transport is responsible for 27% of polluting gases in Spain, five points more than in the EU, so the companies dedicated to it will have to calculate their carbon footprint

The government approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers the draft sustainable mobility law to modernize mobility in Spain with new technologies and achieve the decarbonization of transport, which is responsible for 27% of polluting gases, five points more than the average of the European Union (EU).

To this end, the law will force large companies (those with more than 500 employees) to have sustainable mobility plans to work for their staff. In Spain there are only 2,480 companies of this size, 0.2% of the total, so this measure will not affect small and medium-sized companies, which are the most common group in our country.

Other obligations envisaged by the law are for transport companies, which must calculate their carbon footprint and communicate that information to users. In addition, municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants must have urban mobility plans, but no further details are known about what these projects should look like.

Transport Minister Raquel Sánchez on Tuesday gave the green light to this law, which is now going through parliament, with the aim of taking effect in 2023. According to her, this is a “necessary” law because mobility represents one of the most important economic sectors in the country, with more than 800,000 employees, more than 4.5% of GDP and 13% of total household expenditure, “with more than 5,000 million collective transport trips per year,” Sanchez noted.

The law envisages a new concession card for long-distance buses, which will simplify routes to make the system “more efficient but guarantee citizens’ mobility”, and will create a national sustainable mobility system, which aims to increase cooperation between the different administrations.

The minister explained that the law is built around four main pillars: mobility as a right, meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, improving the quality of investment and spending decisions, and digitization and supporting innovation.

In the third pillar, that of the efficiency of public spending, Sánchez explained that the measures envisaged in the law will save 8,000 million euros in public infrastructure spending over ten years and increase business productivity.

Source: La Verdad

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