The Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, and the CEO of Ferrovial Agromán, Alejandro de la Joya, yesterday signed a collaboration agreement on the project “Global Change Monitoring in the National Parks Network”.
The Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, and the CEO of Ferrovial Agromán, Alejandro de la Joya, yesterday signed a collaboration agreement on the project “Global Change Monitoring in the National Parks Network”.
With this new agreement, both entities have been able to review and update their previous collaboration agreement signed in 2008, extending their cooperation in the project “Establishment of a Global Change Monitoring Network in the National Parks Network” until December 31, 2016.
The Autonomous National Parks Agency, the Spanish Office for Climate Change and the State Meteorological Agency also participate in this project.
Its purpose is to know the impacts that may be generated in the territory, specifically in the Network of National Parks, as a result of global change and fundamentally climate change. To know these impacts, a network of multiparametric weather stations has been established. At present, this network is made up of 20 land stations and 1 ocean-meteorological buoy whose function is to collect climate, air and water quality data in the national parks of Picos de Europa, Sierra Nevada, Cabrera, Teide and Cabañeros. It is expected that the continuous measurement of the parameters taken by the stations will allow us to know the evolution of the environmental effects in the short, medium and long term and their consequences on the availability of resources for the population.
Thanks to Ferrovial’s support, the maintenance of this network and the evaluation, monitoring and evaluation of scientific projects linked to global change will continue.
The agreement signed yesterday represents a new rapprochement between the Ferrovial Group and the Biodiversity Foundation, entities that on May 22 once again joined objectives thanks to Ferrovial’s signing of the Pact for Biodiversity within the framework of the “Spanish Business and Biodiversity Initiative” project. The objective of this Initiative is to include the conservation and management of biodiversity in the business strategies of the different business sectors of the Spanish economy.
Ferrovial is one of the world’s leading infrastructure groups that has innovation, the environment, and commitment to society as its hallmark, and which aims to be recognized worldwide as an efficient and benchmark organization, committed to its commitment to sustainable development. In particular, Ferrovial has a deep interest in advances in the knowledge of climate change, its future effects and the magnitude of the challenge that this phenomenon poses for global companies.
To learn more about the Global Change Monitoring Network in National Parks, you can access its website by clicking here.
