The Biodiversity Foundation has today held the first informative meeting aimed at the beneficiaries of the call for grants for the implementation of activities related to biodiversity, climate change and environmental quality in the 2013 financial year.



The Biodiversity Foundation has today held the first informative meeting aimed at the beneficiaries of the call for grants for the implementation of activities related to biodiversity, climate change and environmental quality in the 2013 financial year.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, through the Biodiversity Foundation, allocates 4.2 million euros to this call for the implementation of 121 projects. Of these initiatives, 64 focus on the conservation of natural heritage (53%) and terrestrial biodiversity, 34 on the fight against climate change and related to environmental quality (24%), and 23 are identified with actions to conserve the marine environment (23%).

The 27 beneficiaries of the grants granted for the implementation of projects related to climate change and environmental quality have been summoned to this first meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to provide all the information about the procedures for monitoring and technical and economic justification of the projects and to promote the knowledge and coordination of the different organizations and their projects.

The approved projects seek to comply with Spain’s commitments on climate change, as well as the promotion of environmental quality and its involvement with biodiversity and health, with the aim of improving social welfare, economic growth and environmental protection.

Among the various themes, the projects address issues such as transversality in adaptation to climate change, specialized training in climate change and policies designed to address it, among others.

After this first meeting, a second informative meeting is scheduled for February 5 aimed at the initiatives of this call related to marine and aquatic biodiversity. The appointment for those beneficiary entities of projects related to terrestrial biodiversity will be on February 6.