The Director General of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Raquel Orts, accompanied by the Director of the Biodievrsidad Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, today presented the “Chiringuito por el Clima 2015” award to the establishment “Cala Bosque”, located in Orihuela (Alicante). With this award, the Ministry recognises the work of the beach bars as disseminators of action against climate change and their involvement in achieving climate commitments as a collective challenge for the next Paris Summit.
 
This Award, launched by the Ministry through the Biodiversity Foundation, has had as its main objective to involve these establishments in the initiative “One Million Commitments for the Climate”, which highlights all those gestures of citizens, companies and institutions, committed to action against climate change, in view of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. which will be held at the end of the year in Paris (France).
 
All the beach bars adhered to the Decalogue of Good Environmental Practices of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment have been able to participate in these awards. Once the submission period was over, each of the participating establishments were able to add their commitments and encourage their customers and suppliers to do so. Thanks to this initiative, nearly 6,000 commitments have been achieved, of which more than 4,000 belong to the winning beach bar.
 
Raquel Orts, has highlighted “the work that beachfront establishments carry out to improve the environment that surrounds them, which can be seen with the Responsible Beach Bar Awards that we have been awarding for four years or now with this Award, which demonstrates the involvement of this sector in something as important as the fight against climate change”.