MÉS per Palma asks for more trees, shade and climate shelters: "The PP's regulations are not ambitious enough"

PalmaThe spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol, has presented a series of amendments to the new Ordinance on Urbanization, Tree Cover, and Public Spaces to increase vegetation and shaded areas and implement climate shelters in all neighborhoods in the face of rising temperatures. She accused the PP this Monday of proposing a "lackluster" regulation that, in her opinion, does not prepare the city to face the climate emergency and will condemn residents to suffer "hellish summers".

"The PP only thinks about how to fill Palma with cement; we think about how to make it more livable," stated Truyol, who has called for more trees and neighborhoods adapted to high temperatures, as the eco-sovereignists report in a statement. Among her proposals, MÉS plans to establish climate shelters in all neighborhoods and install shade elements in playgrounds and squares. It also proposes increasing tree cover both in existing streets and in new urbanized areas, removing asphalt and cement surfaces, and incorporating vegetation.

The party has also called for the preferential use of native species or species adapted to the Mediterranean climate in green areas to reduce water consumption and maintenance needs, improve drought resistance, and promote biodiversity. MÉS has also criticized that the governing team's proposal allows for the removal of trees through the payment of financial compensation. "The felling of trees cannot be a bargaining chip," warned Truyol, for whom this possibility introduces a "mercantile logic" incompatible with the protection of arboreal heritage.