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And since assuming her post last year, Ribera is doing her best to ensure that efforts to address climate change work more as they should in a nation that is one of the most at risk in Europe, with one 2016 report predicting that southern Spain would become a desert if global temperatures rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Ribera has outlined a plan in which Spain will aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, and announced that the government would install between 6,000 and 7,000 megawatts of renewable power every year for the next decade. She also spearheaded an agreement with the mining unions that will close most of the nation’s coal mines while investing over 200 million euro ($221 million) into mining regions over the next decade, and scrapped the country’s so-called “sun tax” on solar power, which she dismissed as a “great absurdity.” She caused a political earthquake by telling Parliament last year that diesel “has its days numbered,” before backtracking a bit.