entire coastal area Mediterrenian Spain will suffer more severely than the interior of the peninsula from the most extreme meteorological events of climate change, such as very local torrential rains, and when it is not adequately prepared in a very short time. The eastern part of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands are warming 20% faster and more intensely than the rest of the world.
This is one of the conclusions of the informative meeting on ‘Common governance in the ecological transition’ within the framework of the ‘EFE Environmental Dialogues’, where it is explained that this greater impact on the Mediterranean coast is due precisely to the fact that: O Mediterranean “warms 2 or 3 times more than other oceans”This means an accumulation of energy that is released in the form of extreme phenomena.
While such announcements may seem like a disaster, Elisa Valía, Integrated Water Cycle Councilor of Valencia City Council, is determined to make rigorous statements and treat the public like “mature individuals” and tell them the truth without “sweetening or masking” it. things”.
Samira Khodayar, Director of the Meteorology and Climatology Group of the Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM), said, “The Mediterranean region is one of the sensitive points of climate change. experience this global warming 20% more intensely and faster than other parts of the worldThe Mediterranean’s water “warms two or three times more than other oceans”.
This tropicalization “is really responsible Since 1980, there has been a temperature increase of more than 1.5 degrees in the Mediterranean.“With very serious implications for the flora and fauna, the habitat of the Mediterranean.”
In addition, global warming of 1.2 degrees has been mentioned since pre-industrial times, In the Community of Valencia this increase reaches 1.5 degrees, and in some parts of Murcia it reaches 2 degrees.“well above global warming”.
More influence in the east of the peninsula
This would mean “very significant impacts on the continental region” near the coast of Catalonia, the Community of Valencia, Murcia or Andalusia, as “the available energy potential for heavy rains is much greater”.
Overall, Spain is moving towards a hotter and drier scenario.. “This is how it is and we must prepare for it because prevention is essential,” he argued.
When asked if the region is prepared for the effects of climate change, he said “a strong and clear answer: no.” “Climate change is a reality we already live in, not something that will happen in the future” and “decisions made this decade will be fundamental”.
For Luis Sendra, dean of the Faculty of Architects of the Valencian Community, “it is true that measures have been taken, but we have bureaucratic problems”, he cited as an example. city plans that the majority of municipalities have “very old because it costs between 12 and 20 years to make a new city plan”.
“No mayor with a four-year tenure has started changing the plan,” because the plan “will take longer than the legislature to process,” Sendra said.
Elisa del Río, technical field director of the Valencian Business Confederation (CEV), agreed that “we are one of the areas of the peninsula with the greatest risk” and urged “to think about solutions to climate change”
It has been in favor of the “all aspects: both efficiency in consumption and a strategic approach, where work is already being done on a common governance model”.
Also, since hydrological planning is done for five years and above all, eventually, more than 50% of the planned infrastructures are not realizedThis makes preparation very difficult.
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