The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment has joined the Moving for Climate Now initiative, a cycling route that departed today from Seville to Marrakech – the venue for the Climate Summit (COP 22) that starts today – to highlight the need for urgent and decisive action against the effects of climate change. 
 
The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, participated today in Seville in the presentation of the initiative, organised by the Spanish Network of the United Nations Global Compact together with Iberdrola, and which is an official event of the Summit. During his speech, Castañeda stressed that “we are facing not only a collective but also an individual responsibility. What begins today in Seville, this cycling community, symbolizes that every small gesture, every pedal stroke is important and can take us very far in the fight against climate change”.
 
Moving for Climate Now brings together a multidisciplinary team of 50 professionals from different companies, institutions and organisations committed to the fight against climate change. The initiative has a website  www.movingforclimatenow.org in which the day-to-day life of the route will be reported and which will be enriched with varied content and expert opinions on the different aspects of climate change.
 
The itinerary comprises 10 stages and will cover more than 1,100 kilometres, and at the end of each cycling stage there will be a debate among all participants about climate change. Each day, one of the expert participants in the field will deal with one of the many aspects of the climate challenge such as sustainability, energy, financing, individual contribution, corporate responsibility, etc.