The echoes of the Climate Summit held in Madrid last week, with the consequent disappointment derived from the lack of international agreement, have not yet been silenced. We all expected this event to materialize more ambitious agreements against climate change but, since we are in this scenario, for my part, I have decided to concentrate on acting locally, after global thinking has not yielded the answers we expected.
The rent-a-car company CICAR, created in Lanzarote and with implementation throughout the archipelago, has given me the necessary motivation to continue working in this line by inviting me today to the presentation of the first 20 electric vehicles in its fleet and, with it, betting on sustainability. These are zero-emission vehicles, which CICAR will continue to incorporate until reaching 200 throughout 2020. For this reason, we must congratulate them for advancing together in the purpose of having a sustainable island.
The involvement of private companies in the fight against climate change and ecological collapse, together with the commitment and political and social support for the initiative, is, without a doubt, the way forward. On this occasion, we were able to count on the presence of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, representatives of the island's City Councils, directors of other companies and members of social and citizen groups.
While world leaders advance towards Glasgow 2020 with the commitment to reach agreements that return us to the path of sustainability, common sense and environmental justice from which we should never have left, the communities of men and women, in all corners of the world, must find formulas to reduce the impact of our being on the planet.
Let's make it possible. Let's add big and small efforts. Let us walk hand in hand the public and private sectors, who produces and who consumes, politics and citizenship, let's change things? And let us demonstrate that there is no room for disagreements or disagreements in the face of the serious crisis scenario that humanity faces these days.
Ariagona González, national deputy and Minister of Industry and Energy of the Cabildo de Lanzarote
