The Just Transition process is articulated through the statewide Just Transition Strategy, which seeks to optimize, through the creation of public policies, the opportunities for the creation of economic activity and employment provided by the ecological transition to a green and low-carbon economy, minimizing the negative economic and social impacts that may arise.
In Asturias, 4 other strategies contribute to the development of the Just Transition Strategy.
Just Energy Transition Strategy of Asturias
The main objective of the Just Energy Transition Strategy of Asturias, ETEJA, is to establish the guidelines for the transformation process of the regional energy sector. This transformation must be carried out in a fair manner so that in the territories that experience the negative effects derived from the closure of energy production facilities, initiatives aimed at compensating such effects are promoted.
Guiding Principles
- P1. Achieving a decarbonized energy sector
- P2. Enhance the competitiveness of regional factors
- P3. Position the consumer at the center of the model.
Strategic objectives
To decarbonize the regional energy model based on energy efficiency and technological diversification, facilitating the competitiveness of the regional economy.
- O1. Creation of a new energy supply model based on renewable energies and technological diversification.
- O2. Creation of a new energy consumption model based on energy efficiency and electrification.
SO2. To enhance the competitiveness of regional capabilities
- O3. Strengthening the regional industrial fabric, boosting the economic activity of other sectors, improving competitiveness, promoting an ecosystem of knowledge generation and economic development in all territories.
- O4. Citizen-centered, creating jobs, reducing inequalities and supporting the people most affected by the transformation of the energy sector.
Climate Action Strategy
The Climate Action Strategy of the Principality of Asturias, EAxCLIMA, with a 2030 horizon, is the agenda that guides the ecological transition as an action against climate change and as a contribution to the objectives established at European and national level.
the decarbonization of the asturian economy requires a transformation that will affect all sectors of activity and will have to reduce emissions.
General objectives
- To reduce total GHG emissions in Asturias by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 (equivalent to a 64% reduction compared to 2005), and to lay the foundations for achieving climate neutrality by 2050, contributing to national and European mitigation targets.
- O2. Integrate the climate variable into planning instruments and regional sectoral policies for adaptation to climate change, in order to reduce vulnerability to the risks derived from climate change.
- O3. Orient scientific knowledge and regional technological innovation towards decarbonization and adaptation to climate change.
- O4. To train, raise awareness and involve the population in action against climate emergencies. In order to achieve its objectives, EAxCLIMA proposes 10 areas for action
From each of these areas a series of lines and measures are derived in terms of climate action in Asturias.
Asturias Industrial Strategy 2030
Asturias faces the 2030 horizon with the firm objective of consolidating a solid, resilient and diversified industrial model, capable of increasing its competitive level in the context of a global economy marked by ecological and digital transition.
The Asturias Industrial Strategy, approved by the regional government and the Asturian economic social agents, is aligned with other European initiatives such as the European Industrial Strategy, the Green Pact Industrial Plan, the Zero Net Emissions Industry Act or the Critical Raw Materials Act. It proposes the following as priority objectives for the 2030 horizon:
- Strengthen existing regional industry and attract new industrial activities, in order to shape a more competitive, diversified, sustainable and digitally secure sector.
- Generate more quality industrial employment, guaranteeing safer, more egalitarian and inclusive working conditions that reinforce the role of industry as a generator of social stability and opportunities for personal development.
- To fully integrate Asturian industries into international production chains, contributing to the strategic autonomy of the European Union and favoring the internationalization of the local productive fabric.
- Strengthen and enhance the role of industrial SMEs, facilitating their growth and their access to technological, financial and training resources, to ensure their leading role in the new industrial model.
- To contribute, from the industry, to the reinforcement of an inclusive, equitable and sustainable model of Asturian society.
In order to achieve a proper alignment with the draft Industry and Strategic Autonomy Law, the following structure has been followed:
- A diagnosis of the context of the industry’s situation along the entire ecosystem value chain.
- The general objectives, priorities, lines of action and indicators to enable the monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy during the period of validity, in terms of industry and for strategic autonomy.
- The identification of the main elements that can be incorporated into industrial ecosystems, one of the key axes of the new Industrial Law, and within these, those that are considered strategic.
- Determination of strategic challenges and relevant lines of action to address them.
- Governance mechanisms to ensure public-private collaboration and cooperation between administrations and with economic and social agents and representatives of civil society.
Strategy for the Sustainable Management of Raw Materials
(In public consultation period)
The Strategy for the Sustainable Management of Raw Materials of the Principality of Asturias was created to adapt Asturian mining activity and its value chain to an environment in which sustainability and digitalization are prioritized.
For its definition, the Asturian Raw Materials Round Table was created, which worked for two years to define the path to be followed by the sector under an expanded approach that takes into consideration the needs of raw materials from outside the region.
Overall objective
- To position Asturias as a reference region in the sustainable production of raw materials and in production technologies, taking advantage of existing activity and capabilities.
Operational objectives
- Strengthening the industrial fabric associated with the sustainable production of raw materials.
- Adapt the capacities and means of the administration to guarantee the sustainable production of raw materials.
- Improving interregional linkages and international outreach
- Enhance the value of Asturian mining heritage as an economic, industrial, cultural and social resource.
Related documentation
- Estrategias
