According to Andorra's 2022 NDC, the Andorran Strategy for Environmental Education for Sustainability (Learn for the Future) was approved in 2022, prepared in a participatory manner with the sectors, agents involved and young people, and approved by the Government of Andorra for Horizon 2030. This strategy is aligned with the international, Pyrenean and national objectives and plans 9 actions in 9 years, including moving on to action related to young people in the face of the climate crisis.

This document sets Andorra's vision to enable mitigation and adaptation measures over the period 2020-2050. The strategy is divided into five programmes: 1) decarbonisation, 2) raising adaptation and resilience capabilities, 3) enable carbon credits and other fiscal measures that can lead to carbon neutrality, 4) social transition and 5) innovation, research and systematic data collection.

Edict of the 27-1-2021 makes public the opening of the call for grants from the Renova program for the improvement of the national real estate park, the improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings and the use of renewable energies for 2021.

The Regulation amending the Regulations for the internal operation and composition of the National Commission for Energy and Climate Change (CNECC) is approved following publication of this decree. The regulation is attached to the document.

This document promotes energy efficiency and renewables in new and old buildings.

The purpose of this Law is to modify the legislative texts that, directly or indirectly, regulate the development of agriculture and livestock and to adapt them in order to favor the development and diversification of these activities and facilitate the generational transition , in order to ensure its durability. It also aims to create a legislative framework that is conducive to the development of other complementary activities that can favour the livestock and agricultural sectors, as well as the creation of an advisory body to coordinate actions in livestock and agricultural matters. According to article 2 of the law, some of the specific objectives of the law are 1) to promote agricultural and livestock activities that favour the sustainable production of quality food, 2) Encourage the use of appropriate practices to contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity, the improvement of landscape quality and the reduction of natural risks, and 3) Promote the development of sustainable agricultural infrastructures and facilities. According to Andorra's 2022 NDC, the law "provides as a protectable action, the installation of systems for the use of energy from renewable sources in the buildings that are part of the facilities and equipment that make up the agricultural holdings that are registered in the Register of Agricultural Holdings. With this, the modernisation of the agricultural and rammed sector and its involvement in the production of energy from renewable sources, make this economic sector one more actor to consider in national climate action."

According to article 1, this law aims to promote the transition towards a circular economy, moving from a linear economy to a more efficient and sustainable economic model that optimises the use of natural resources, minimises environmental impacts, promotes efficiency in achieving that products and resources maintain utility and value as long as possible and avoid material emissions and losses. The circular model also promotes responsible and efficient consumption by minimising waste generation and optimising its management, increasing reuse and recycling and reducing less efficient waste management options. It also promotes the awareness of society in the principles of the circular economy. Article 9 of the law states that the Public Administration must intensify the synergies between circularity, the fight against climate change, especially with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the fight against the loss of biodiversity and health protection human through the following actions: a) Analyse how the effects of circularity can be measured in the fight against climate change, adaptation to this phenomenon and the fight against the loss of biodiversity. b) Improve modeling tools to take advantage of the benefits of the circular economy from the point of view of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, linking them to the emission reduction targets established in Law 21/2018, of 13 September, to promote the energy transition and climate change (Litecc) and the mechanisms for the protection of human health. c) Analyse the ecological footprint of the Andorran economic model to improve the circularity of the model.

<div>The 2022 budget law's article 15 creates within the state budget a Green Fund ("Fons verd") for the energy transition and the fight against climate change. It is aimed at helping plans or actions that could meet objectives set out in framework law 21/2018 (Litecc). The Green Fund is financed through 1) final taxes, including a carbon tax and a tax on vehicle ownership, 2) allocations from the general administration budget. Andorra's 2022 NDC further specifies that:</div><ul><li>"in the case of the consumption of hydrocarbons in heating, the Government has provided for a gradual green tax so that this does not mean a greater impact for families. Thus, despite the fact that it was expected that during 2022, and for average consumption, it would mean an increase of one cent per liter, which represents an increase of only 4 euros per year, its taxation has been postponed due to the energy context and current economic up to the year 2023.</li><li>as it is a final rate, it has served to lower the price of the monthly subscription to use public transport throughout the country. The measure entered into force on September 1, 2021, and thanks to the rate, as of this year 2022 it has been possible to offer national public transport free of charge, assuming an increase in user numbers of more than 100%. School transport fares have also been lowered, as well as other savings fares for the youngest.</li><li>in order for the green tax to have a direct impact on citizens, the budget item for the aid program to change or improve the diesel heating system for a more sustainable one that comes from renewable energy has also been increased. The aid has been up to 55% of the final budget for the renovation of the heating system.</li><li>lastly, this Green Fund also feeds an aid program aimed at promoting electric vehicles in the country, and it has been possible to expand its scope to logistics and transport vehicles, not only utility cars, in accordance with the Sustainable Mobility Strategy."</li></ul>

"This law is a framework document that promotes energy transition and energy efficiency in order to combat climate change and encourage the adaptation of society to its effects, reduce energy dependence and strengthen the competitiveness of the economy. This law also promotes research and innovation, education and awareness of society in these areas. It notably contains dispositions on transport, energy, the role of the public sector, on the circular economy. Article 2 states that The aims of energy policy and the fight against climate change are: - To preserve human health, the environment and socio-economic activities, reducing the effects of climate change on citizens and exposure to air pollution; sources of energy supply, reducing fossil fuels and increasing renewable energies - Enhancing energy efficiency - Ensuring security of energy supply - Reducing dependence on energy imports - Maintaining a competitive energy price - To train all actors in the new context of the energy transition - To reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to move towards a carbon neutral society - To move towards a better adapted society climate change affecting, among other things, information, awareness-raising, education, training, participation and cooperation of citizens, - Encouraging development and the diffusion of innovation, new technologies and the accelerating behaviors of the energy transition and of the fight and adaptation in relation to climate change. Article 4 states that the hierarchical criteria for actions to ensure the energy transition are, in that order: - energy saving - energy efficiency - the use of energy from renewable sources - the use of energy low carbon; - and the use of high carbon energy, as a last resort. The regulations for the development of the Law and energy policy and the fight against climate change must respect this hierarchy and favor progressive application. Article 9 states that The Government promotes the Green Fund for the Energy Transition and the Fight against Climate Change, which it incorporates into the General Budget Bill, and which is intended to promote forecasts, plans or actions aimed at the object. of this Law. The Green Fund is fed by the finalist taxes that can be determined for this purpose, as well as the complementary budgetary allocations provided for in the general budget laws of the State, as well as the donations and contributions it receives and other possible income."

Laws 4/2016 and 15/2016 aim to promote sustainable national mobility through the development of the use of electric mobility. It notably approves preferential taxes for EVs and sets the obligation for new buildings to incorporate charging stations.

Andorra 2022 NDC Update, Nationally Determined Contribution from Andorra in 2022

Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050, Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy from Andorra in 2021

Andorra. National communication (NC). NC 2., National Communication from Andorra in 2021

Andorra. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR4., Biennial Update Report from Andorra in 2021

Andorra First NDC (Updated submission), Nationally Determined Contribution from Andorra in 2020

18-11-2015 Decree of Approval of the amendment of the Rules of construction

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This decree approves the Regulation of modification of the Building Regulations. 
 
Article 2 The section 4 of article 25 is added, which is drafted as follows: "4. Power generating devices of renewable origin of a building are compatible with any urban use, and are subject to the most precise regulation that can be established by the Parochial Planning and Urban Planning Plan. " 
 
Article 5 Paragraph 3 is added to article 39 and article 40, which is drafted as follows: "3. The installation of devices that use renewable energy is allowed according to the provisions of article 43. " 
 
"Article 43. Elements of environmental science 
1. Urban planning must promote and regulate the installation of the elements of renewable energy capture, energy saving in the building and the rationalization of drinking water consumption. Likewise, it must regulate the creation of spaces or devices necessary for the selective collection of waste (glass, packaging, paper and cardboard and waste) that are generated in the buildings. 
These regulations must be carried out following landscape integration criteria. 
2. To avoid the aesthetic affectation of the urban or rural landscape, the external units of the heat pumps can not be installed visually in facades or roofs, unless they are adjacent to the elements of the building itself There are either embellished elements accepted as such. The communal ordinances regulate these elements of camu atge and embellishment. 
3. The use of asbestos materials, or containing asbestos, is prohibited in the building. 
4. For the purposes of this Regulation, renewable energies are, in any of its forms, those of origin of the water, those of origin of the wind and the ambient air, those of origin of the sun, those of geothermal origin, those of origin of biomass and of biofuels or equivalent products. 
5. In the field of energy science and renewable energies, the following aspects are foreseen in new construction: 
a) It is allowed to exceed the maximum height for installations of the generators of renewable energies, within a maximum of 1.5 meters; This limitation applies to non-rotating parts in the case of wind elements; b) In new buildings, at least 40% of the production of hot water must come from renewable energies. The Ordering Plan and parochial urban planning can have higher minimum values, depending on the area; 
c) The installation of plates that capture renewable energies, in walls and slopes of modification of the natural terrain is allowed. 
6. In the field of energy science and renewable energies, the following aspects are foreseen, in previous editions of this Regulation: 
a) Variations in the sorting or editing parameters that result from the execution of works or facilities to improve the existing energy science of existing buildings to reach the levels of current energy regulations, or resulting from the execution of renewable energy works or installations, are not accounted for in the regulatory parameters of the building except the limits of construction on the ground floor regarding the public road. The increase in application of the outer envelope is limited to a maximum of 35 cm; b) It is allowed to exceed the maximum height for any installation of improvement of the existing energy science of existing buildings or that results from the execution of works or of renewable energy installations, ns to a maximum of 1.5 meters; This limitation applies to non-rotating parts in the case of wind elements; 
c) The installation of plates that capture renewable energies, in walls and slopes of modification of the natural land is allowed. "

18-11-2015 Decree of Approval of the amendment of the Rules of construction

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