Fair ecological transition
The fight against climate change and the implementation of a socially just ecological transition is the greatest challenge of our generation, on which our survival depends, and we are working to achieve it
Implementing the European Green Deal, protecting social rights in the ecological transition and guaranteeing a clean and healthy environment for all Europeans.
As a member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, I have focused my work on the fight against climate change and environmental pollution. In this regard, I am firmly committed to an ambitious and socially just implementation of the European Green Deal.
I have served as coordinator of the Fit for 55 package for the Spanish Socialist delegation and as shadow rapporteur for the S&D Group on the Effort Sharing Regulation, an essential component of European climate policy that governs 60% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions. I have also been the rapporteur for the revision of the European Climate Law, which established a new binding emissions reduction target of 90% by 2040 compared to 1990. In the field of global climate action, I have been the S&D Group’s negotiator for the European Parliament resolutions on COP26, COP27 and COP29, as well as being part of the official European Parliament delegation at COP27 in Egypt and COP28 in Dubai.
My other key priority in the area of the environment is improving air and water quality in the EU. Air pollution is the greatest environmental risk to human health in Europe, causing around 300,000 premature deaths per year and a significant number of illnesses. To address this, through my work as European Parliament rapporteur for the revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives, as well as for the prior implementation report, I have sought to strengthen this legislation in order to ensure better protection of public health and our ecosystems.
In the area of water protection, I have also served as rapporteur for the revision of the Directives on pollutants in surface and groundwater, which updates for the first time in more than a decade the lists of regulated substances under the Water Framework Directive and its daughter directives, strengthening the protection of human health, aquatic ecosystems and Europe’s water resilience.
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