Felix Hernandez details the environmental sustainability efforts in Spain in his article "Environmental Sustainability and Global Warming in Spain", published in Energy Policy, Volume 32 Issue 3. He opens his argument by detailing the complex relationship between the human impact and the results on the environment. For example, fossil fuels are not the only contributing factor to the steady incline of global temperature on Earth. Hernandez breaks down this environmental trouble into what he defines as "three dimensions": Ecological sustainability, economic sustainability, and social sustainability. If all three can be achieved, then the global CO2 count can be drastically reduced with Spain as a global leader in environmental sustainability as a whole. Spanish efforts currently include RE deployments and initiatives at all levels of their government so that the general public is aware of the environment's distress and how they can do their part. Long-term goals for the Spanish include reducing fossil fuel dependency as well as deforestation. Hernandez concludes that should this work, the Spanish can be a global leader and role model for other countries in the same economic distress, and yet are still able to create an environmentally sustainable society.
"Environmental Sustainability and Global Warming in Spain"
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