Ecologists in Action of La Rioja has presented allegations to the Regional Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change 2023-2030, proposing the following clarifications to the administration:
- Increase effort level to carry out this adaptation strategy in our Autonomous Community. All studies highlight that the Iberian Peninsula will be one of the territories that will have to face the most and most severe impacts due to climate change. The level of resilience of our society must be ambitious, since increasing our resilience means investing in fewer expenses for future damage. Increase efforts in the figure of maladaptation the inclusion of the figure of maladaptation could be a good tool to identify and paralyze the projects and actions that
- They increase vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Likewise, the identification and monitoring of maladaptation in each of the strategic lines of the plan should be clearly identified.
- Ensure sufficient provision of funds and adequate, it is necessary to increase financing for adaptation to climate change, having additional financing is essential.
- Streamline the integration of scientific knowledge in natural resource planning. It is essential that this knowledge is available or can be consulted in the development of plans and programs that should have this adaptation as a key pillar, such as hydrological plans or policies on irrigation, energy…
- Reconstant vision of the impacts caused by the different mitigation scenarios, issuing relevant information on the different future costs of the scenarios. Inform, prior to setting new emissions reduction objectives, the expected impacts and the difference with the path necessary to keep the increase in global temperature below 1.5 ºC.
Furthermore, Ecologists in Action points out in its allegations some specific actions in this Climate Change Adaptation Plan, such as:
- Expansion of agricultural spaces of high interest, not only for their agricultural values, but also for their natural and landscape values. Such as some of the existing foothills in La Rioja, spaces located between the mountainous areas of the Iberian System and the lowlands of the Ebro Valley.
- Carry out clear planning of the availability of water for current and future irrigation, establishing the necessary guidelines to proceed with the necessary reduction of hectares dedicated to irrigation.
Improvement of public spaces:
- Avoid heat islands by planting 30 percent of the municipal area of trees in cities and towns.
Supply system drought plans
- In this sense, a specific limitation or prohibition should be established on private activities that consume a lot of water, such as golf courses, swimming pools or economic activities that can consume a lot of water.
- Closure of illegal well catchments, supervision of aquifers, and ecological flows of rivers, as well as the quality of their waters.
Promotion of bioclimatic and resilient urban construction
The starting point is correct and a more ecological construction is intended, but there should be regulations that require the construction of homes that are close to 0 energy consumption (energy rating A). For example, it can be forced to install as many solar panels as possible on the roofs and heating systems such as geothermal or aerothermal (which today are the most efficient and ecological).
Likewise, there will be an aid plan for the installation of these same systems in already constructed buildings.
Review and search for sustainable alternatives to the winter season of Valdezcaray.
We oppose the review of the Valdezcaray ski resort because while the Ezcaray region is developing in an unsustainable way, the rest of the Riojan Sierras suffer from the absence of public investment in territorial development policies and, like an oil spill, The demographic vacuum extends over the mountain territory.
Reinforcement of the network of meteorological stations…
Implementation of more measurement networks, especially in Logroño.
Finally, at Ecologistas en Acción we believe that for the Plan to be adequately developed, adequate monitoring and citizen participation must be guaranteed to successfully carry out this adaptation to climate change.
Allegations: Allegations to the Regional Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change April 24
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