SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has highlighted the “capital importance” of the two laws approved today Tuesday by the regional Parliament on Climate Change and Citizenship Income, which complies with one of the main precepts of the new Statute of Autonomy renovated in 2018.
After the vote, the head of the regional Executive stressed that environmental and social sustainability “are two of the fundamental pillars” on which the current Pact of Flowers was based and “are reinforced as never before with this step taken today, historic by the relevance of the two legislative texts endorsed on the same day in the Chamber and key to the present and future of the islands”.
Torres stressed that these are the two “most important laws of the legislature, since it is the first time that the Canary Islands have a regulation to fight climate change and to guarantee an income to the people or families who need it most.” According to him, he stressed, these are regulations “widely demanded and participated in by society, for which reason I can only be very satisfied with the approval of the two texts in Parliament on this day.”
The president considered that this principle of ecological and social sustainability “is crucial in favor of a more balanced Canary Islands and one that faces challenges such as poverty or climate change with the best possible tools.”
For this reason, he was convinced that the income from citizenship will reinforce the protection shield for the most vulnerable families in the archipelago, while the Climate Change Law, the one with the greatest participation in the history of the Islands and the most demanding with terms and objectives that the UN’s own sustainable agenda “is essential to mitigate the effects of the undeniable global warming of the planet in an insular territory and as sensitive as the Canary Islands”.
“We must preserve our land and the planet, and seek social sustainability,” said the president, for whom the minimum income that is guaranteed from now on with the income of the Canary Islands citizenship offers much more security as it is protected by a law which includes aid that has done a great job so far, such as the Canary Islands Insertion Benefit (PCI), or serving as a complement to non-contributory pensions and other contributions of a social nature.
For Torres, the Climate Change Law will contribute to the conservation of the Archipelago with a text that obliges society, companies, administrations and each individual to change many habits and contribute as much as possible for a more balanced and ecological future, “for example , with sustainable tourism”.
