The Government presents the proposal for a State Pact in the face of the climate emergency

On Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved the proposal for a State Pact against the climate emergency, aimed at strengthening the mechanisms for adaptation, mitigation and recovery of public administrations in the face of extreme weather events, based on scientific advice, anticipation, institutional loyalty and the defence of the general interest and the common good. Over the next few months it will receive contributions from all interested parties, from political formations, to social agents, through agricultural organizations, ecologists or academics, among others – it will also be presented to the European Commission, Portugal and France – and at the end of the year the Government will present a new enriched proposal.

“Spain is an extremely vulnerable country in the face of the climate emergency. Climate change is accelerating and extreme episodes are becoming more frequent, intense, geographically wide and of longer duration,” said the Vice-President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, recalling that in the last decade alone, torrential rains and danas have increased by 15%, droughts and heatwaves have become more intense and long-lasting. and the area affected by fires has grown by 80%, causing the death of more than 20,000 people and material losses of some 32,000 million euros, almost the same as the State dedicated to public education in that period.

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