Malta’s delay in providing the emission levels on climate change to the EU could not be seen in isolation, the PL’s environment spokesman said.

Leo Brincat said in a statement that Malta had done the same in the past on statistics related to waste management as well as on its initiatives, or lack of, in the alternative energy sector.

He hoped this would not happen again when the country was expected to submit a concrete and detailed plan of action on alternative and renewable energy by the end of June.

It would be more worrying if and when the government submitted the required information, it would result that Malta increased its CO2 emissions while they went down in other countries, primarily because of an economic recession.

The way the government was acting did not augur well to the country’s move towards a green technology and economy and it also showed a lack of commitment on the way such vital and sensitive information in the indicated climate, waste and alternative energy sectors were being processed.