The Governing Council of the Carbon Fund has approved the guidelines of the Carbon Fund for a Sustainable Economy (FES-CO2), through which the next call for ‘Climate Projects’ in 2013 will be launched, in the search for climate change mitigation through specific actions that contribute to avoiding greenhouse gas emissions in diffuse sectors.

In the 2012 Climate Projects call, a total of 37 projects have been selected, projects that aim to reduce 800,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. The presentation of these Climate Projects 2012 is scheduled for next Monday, February 11 at the headquarters of MAPAMA (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment).

Through FES-CO2, MAPAMA acquires verified emission reductions from the so-called “Climate Projects”, climate change mitigation projects developed in Spain that contribute to avoiding greenhouse gas emissions in diffuse sectors, while generating sustainable economic activity.

Among the different actions selected, these 37 projects will act in sectors such as biogas, slurry treatment, or specific actions such as the replacement of fossil fuels in biomass or fuel boilers with biomass boilers, the use of pellets without a carbon footprint, the installation of biomethanisation and the production of fertilisers and incineration, energy recovery, the heating of swimming pools or the promotion of hybrid vehicles or recycling.