The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment has brought together, in El Escorial (Madrid), experts in global change, directors of National Parks and all the partners of the Global Change Monitoring Network in National Parks project in a working day whose objective has been to exchange opinions and discuss the development of the project.
 
This initiative is carried out through a collaboration agreement between the Autonomous National Parks Agency, the Spanish Office for Climate Change, the State Meteorological Agency and the Biodiversity Foundation, with the collaboration of Ferrovial Agromán, and aims to increase knowledge about the effects of global change by collecting data “in situ” and to promote the development of a system for evaluating and monitoring the impacts that may be produce in the network of National Parks.
 
The Global Change Monitoring Network in National Parks is an example of the importance of public-private collaboration for the implementation of projects for the benefit of the environment. Thus, this project has created an infrastructure for the collection of climate data thanks to the installation of a network of weather stations. Data that are processed and available for use by the scientific community, in order to develop a system for evaluating and monitoring the impacts that may be generated in national parks as a result of global change. These data, as well as all the information related to the Network, can be consulted through its website.

Aspects such as the development of a Communication Plan, the need to maintain calls for research grants in this field by the different entities involved, increasing this Network in new National Parks or the creation of citizen science programs associated with this project, have been some of the points established in this roadmap that has begun to be defined for the next 4 years.