In a modern economy in a town like Puerto Lumbreras where the services sector is constantly growing, the demand for energy acquires a certain significance, assuming an increase in associated emissions.
For this reason the City has raised a high degree of energy efficiency by becoming the private sector regarding this matter, as well as developing optimal management of materials, waste and exploitation of renewable energies, as is the case of measures carried lumbrerense out by the council in its Strategic Plan 2008-2012.
In Puerto Lumbreras, the City has published collected environmental measures in the Strategic Plan 'Ecopuerto' that 'with the collaboration of all, help to mitigate the detrimental effects that pollution is occurring on our planet', as he said the mayor, Pedro Antonio Sánchez.
The modernization of facilities, development of new tourism models and the generation of new habits of "consumption" shall, in environmental terms, to assist in transforming the tourism in a more sustainable activity.
Specifically, it will promote tourism in renewable energy and energy saving, promotion of rural tourism models, culture and sports, as well as the transformation Greenways dedicated to leisure and free time by agreement between administrations public and affected neighboring properties, as well as the enhancement of the cattle trails Trail and Trail Gonar Huércal Lorca-Overa.
For the Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez "Ecopuerto measures laid down in Puerto Lumbreras used to be a green city with a neutral carbon emission and a strong commitment to combating climate change, continued.
This plan will work ambitiously to go to achieve immediate results in specific areas where the nearest horizon and important on the path towards sustainability in the fight against climate change. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras