The PSOE of Lanzarote assures that the Canarian laws on climate change and citizen income, approved this Tuesday by the Parliament of the Canary Islands, are “two new commitments fulfilled” by the Socialist Party and President Ángel Víctor Torres, “which add to the powerful legislative agenda of progress deployed throughout this legislature by the Pact of the Flowers.”
The Canary Islands Climate Change and Energy Transition Law “will allow us to face with guarantees the threat of global warming and climate change that looms over the islands, while addressing the urgent energy transition towards the full decarbonization of the economy in the shortest possible time,” says the general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo.
Towards an energy model based on renewables
“Like the rest of the islands, Lanzarote already has the framework that will allow us to face a change in the productive model oriented towards the ecological transition, by establishing specific objectives and tasks for public authorities and private initiative in order to guarantee a neutral balance of emissions of greenhouse gases in 2040,” adds María Dolores Corujo.
“We must put all our energy into the progressive reduction of the use and consumption of fossil fuels, as well as the establishment of an energy model based on renewable energies. At the same time, it means a unique opportunity to transform and modernize Lanzarote, but without losing sight of the fact that what drives us is to achieve a more sustainable society in social, economic and environmental terms, a more just, egalitarian and inclusive society,” emphasizes the general secretary.
Right to citizen income and social inclusion
For its part, citizen income is a periodic economic benefit aimed at addressing situations of economic vulnerability and covering the basic expenses of people, families or other cohabitation units that are in a situation of poverty or social exclusion in the Canary Islands, expressly including pensioners, being subsidiary to the Minimum Vital Income and other benefits.
Citizen income is configured in three different modalities depending on the existence or not of income in the cohabitation unit: for social inclusion and protection, for the social inclusion of young people and complementary to work income. “The right to citizen income is linked to the right that every person has to social inclusion, whether it is labor when this is possible, or to strengthen social and community ties, so it is a guarantee of social inclusion and so that no one is left behind,” concludes María Dolores Corujo.
