GSLP-Liberals-Manifesto-2019

• taking policy measures to improve
renewable transport fuel options;
• establishing incentive schemes
to encourage household waste
minimisation and recycling.
GREEN BUSINESS ROSETTE
INITIATIVE
We will, in association with the
GFSB, Chamber of Commerce and
other relevant stakeholders, explore
opportunities for the creation of
a scheme designed to promote
eco-friendly business practices.
It is envisaged that participating
organisations will vye for the award
of a ‘Green Business Rosette’ further
to the adoption of said eco-friendly
practices.
LOW CARBON TRANSITION
& MITIGATION
We will establish an overarching plan
to be known as the National Low
Carbon Transition and Mitigation Plan,
which will set out the measures to be
taken in order to achieve our legally
required targets and will lay this before
Parliament for approval. In accordance
with the Climate Change Act, we will
require public bodies to act in the way
best calculated to achieve delivery of
our Carbon targets, and will require
buildings to keep to the highest
standards of energy efficiency.
CLIMATE ACTION FUND
We will establish a Climate Action
Fund to encourage and resource
climate related awareness, projects
and undertakings, and will immediately
commit £1 million to it.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN
ENVIRONMENT
Gibraltar is already a well-known
and leading jurisdiction on DLT
legislation. We will use blockchain
to help us tackle climate change by
using the technology in Supply Chain
management, Recycling, Energy,
Environmental Treaties and Carbon
Tax. We will create a regulatory
environment for persons to establish
exchanges where environmental
assets can be traded using distributed
ledger technology in Gibraltar. The
regulatory environment will consist
of the co-existence of the existing
DLT Regulations and draft Token
Regulations, together with Regulations
to be enacted under the forthcoming
Climate Change Act. In achieving this
we are already consulting stakeholders
and industry actors at an international
level with a view to encouraging and
providing incentive for green activities
within Gibraltar as well as creating
environmental assets here that could
be traded on the exchanges.
PLASTIC AND WASTE
RECYCLING
We will encourage waste reduction
and separation and will establish a
waste transfer site to segregate waste
streams and increase the efficiency of
recycling. We will monitor the need
for additional recycling points, and
provide these as needed, and will
include facilities for recycling clothing.
We will review our recycling policy on
order to encourage more recycling.
MORE RECYCLING BINS
Recycling bins will be placed along
Main Street, all side streets and
backstreets, encouraging people to
make use of them and not placing their
rubbish in the mixed bins.
BREXIT
We will ensure that our waste disposal
is not prejudiced by any effects
of Brexit. We have already done
considerable work on alternative
options for Gibraltar which will ensure
we are able to deal with all waste in the
most environmentally safe way in the
circumstances.
LITTER COMMITTEE
We will continue to work with the
Litter Committee to reduce litter and
rubbish, including fly-tipping. Action
will include more vigilance to deter
offending vehicles with uncovered
loads and measures to stop plastic and
other waste spreading out from the
Europa Advance Road waste depot.
SINGLE USE PLASTIC
No Government of Gibraltar before
the GSLP Liberals had ever taken
any measures to control and reduce
the use of single-use plastic. We will
continue to take steps, additional to
the legislation that we have already
passed, to reduce this use further,
both by legislating and by working with
businesses and NGOs to encourage
alternative options. This will include:
- supporting return schemes for plastic
bottles.
- providing refilling stations for water
around Gibraltar, including the Upper
Rock, to add to those introduced
already.
- enforcing a ban on single-use
plastics in all premises belonging to
Government, Authorities, Agencies
and Government-owned companies.
- expecting companies who provide
contractual services to Government
to have strict environmental policies,
including on plastics, but also on
other waste and on energy, and will
favour such companies in competitive
processes.
- supporting work by the Technical
Services Ministry to recycle plastics for
alternative uses. This will include using
plastics to create new alternatives to
concrete.
- working actively towards ending
the use of all unnecessary single
use plastic and aim at a complete
transition to sustainable products
within the next term of office. Socalled
biodegradable/compostable
plant derived plastic will be included in
any measures taken to reduce plastic
use and pollution.
- using sustainable non-plastic and
non-rubber materials on all surfaces
in or near the beaches to prevent such
material ending up in the sea.
- continuing to support and give
businesses incentive to make easier
the switch to eco-friendly products.
BEACHES
We will continue to improve all our
beaches, ensuring the best possible
facilities in all of them.
THE NUFFIELD POOL & LITTLE BAY
We stopped the GSD plan to hand
over the Nuffield Pool (now known
as the Europa Pool) to a developer for
nothing (literally £0.00). We thought
this was not the right thing to do. We
invited expressions of interest and
sought a proposal that would continue
to allow access of the general public
...aspire to the best Gibraltar
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