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Mariano Rajoy promises to plant more than 1,400 trees in Spain every hour for four years
By h.b. - Feb 7, 2008 - 5:59 PM

P.P. leader Mariano Rajoy at the European Popular Party climate change convention held in Madrid today - Photo EFE

The latest election promise from the P.P. has been doubted by the Government which does not think there is land enough for so many trees

The leader of the Partido Popular, Mariano Rajoy, is eager to turn the clock back on his faux-pas of naming his cousin, a Sevilla university professor, who had told him there is nothing to worry about in climate change as the top ten scientists were incapable of telling him what the weather would be like in Sevilla tomorrow, let alone in 300 years.

Now the P.P. leader has said he will issue a Law for the Fight Against Climate Change in Spain, and if he wins the election he will plant no less than 500 million trees in four years. The maths works out at 14,270 per hour, day and night, and would mean the creation of a park the size of the Retiro in Madrid every hour of those four years.

It also works out at ten trees per inhabitant, and comes in response to a PSOE promise already given on January 19 to plant one tree per inhabitant in Spain. It shows a new extreme to the main parties pre-election war of number promises.

The response from the Ministry of the Environment to the P.P. proposal, ‘difficult to carry out’ as, according to the Secretary General for Territory and Biodiversity, Antonio Serrano, there is simply not enough land available.

Rajoy insists though that if elected he will move ‘from words to deeds', and his measures will reduce the effect of greenhouse gases in Spain by 20% by the year 2020. He also promised to buy new vehicles for the civil service which could run on biofuels, and said he would ask the European Commission for reduced VAT on new greener vehicles.

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