It is undeniable that Spain is facing a complex problem that is worsening day by day with climate change. Wildfires occupy the front pages of the news, serve as content to feed social networks, and civil society is demanding solutions. It has been proven that simple solutions based on beliefs and myths, with biased discourses that sometimes leave science aside, are no longer useful. As a society, we have the responsibility to decide how to deal with a situation that is worsening year after year and that, according to all forecasts, tends to get worse.
For this reason, over the course of six months, more than sixty experts from the Community of Wildfires, coordinated by the Pau Costa Foundation, have been working to identify those urgent needs and commitments that must be made to deal with wildfires.
In order to draw up conclusions, last March they met in Madrid for two intense days at the “Forum for debate and proposals for action for the management of great wildfires in Spain”.
The conclusions of this arduous work were made public on 15 June simultaneously in Barcelona, specifically in Can Massana, the gateway to the Montserrat Mountain Natural Park, and in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.
Agenda of the presentation in Barcelona:
Day: 15 June 2023
Location: Can Massana Forest Area (Montserrat Natural Park)
Time: 10:30 a.m.
10:30h Welcome-Coffee
11:00h Presentation
- Welcome and contextualisation of the declaration – Jordi Vendrell, Pau Costa Foundation
- Reading aloud of the declaration – Míriam Piqué, Pau Costa Foundation
- Words by guest speakers
Eva Saldaña (Executive Director of Greenpeace Spain)
Marc Castellnou (Head of GRAF Area – Catalan Fire and Rescue Service)
Miquel Rafa (Director of Sustainability and Nature – Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera)
Marta Corella (SOS Rural World and ex-Mayor of Orea)
Míriam Piqué (President of the Board of Trustees of the Pau Costa Foundation)
- Open Q&A session
12:00h End of the presentation and time for statements and brief interviews.
12:30h End of the event.
Event moderation: Mariona Borràs, Pau Costa Foundation.
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Agenda of the presentation in Madrid:
Day: 15 June 2023
Location: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (C. de José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid).
Time: 10:30 a.m.
10:30h Welcome-Coffee
11:00h Presentation
- Welcome – Ariadna Goenaga, Pau Costa Foundation
- Presentation and moderation of the event: Luis Guijarro, APIA
- Reading of the declaration – Luis Berbiela, Pau Costa Foundation
- Words by guest speakers
Enrique Segovia (Director of Conservation, WWF)
Juan Sánchez (Director of INFOCA)
Virginia Carracedo (Researcher from the University of Cantabria)
Luis Berbiela (Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pau Costa Foundation)
- Open Q&A session
12:00h End of the presentation and time for statements, short interviews, etc.
12:30h End of the event
