This Thursday will be a key day for Catalonia to take steps forward in mitigating the climate emergency. Five years late, the Catalan Parliament will vote on its first carbon budget, which establishes the amount of greenhouse gases that each economic sector can emit in the coming years. Government spokesperson Silvia Paneque explained in the special plenary session on this issue that in 2023 Catalonia emitted 38.36 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO₂) and, for the first time in more than 30 years, fell below 1990 levels. The aim is to set "clear course" until 2030. However, despite the progress this milestone may represent, the document that will reach the plenary session is far from resembling the study drafted by the Committee of Experts on Climate Change (CECC), whose members claim it violates scientific criteria.

Made on the basis of the recommendations of the Committee of Experts on Climate Change To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, as set by the European Union, the Government will approve Catalonia's first carbon budget this Tuesday. Although it is years late—the 2017 climate change law stipulated that they would be approved— before 2021–, this roadmap with the greenhouse gas limits that different economic sectors can emit into the atmosphere should reach Parliament in the autumn, according to Silvia Paneque, Minister for Ecological Transition and Government spokesperson.