The Biodiversity Foundation joins the celebration of International Mother Earth Day on April 22 by supporting projects that focus on raising awareness about climate change.

Today is International Mother Earth Day, which serves to remind us of the responsibility we all have to care for nature and achieve a sustainable balance between economic, social and environmental needs.

This year the slogan is “Environmental and climate literacy”, to stress the importance of the world’s population as a whole being educated and aware of concepts such as climate change and the danger that these phenomena pose to the Earth.

The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and the Environment has launched several projects that focus on climate change and the importance of making it known to the population as a whole. Thus, together with the Spanish Office for Climate Change, it has promoted an initiative whose objective has been to support Spanish researchers who participated in the drafting of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body in charge of evaluating the scientific, technical and socio-economic information available at a global level on climate change. Within the framework of the initiative, four informative guides have been published that summarize the Fifth Report of the IPCC.

We also have the AdapteCCa online platform underway, an initiative on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change that has the collaboration of the units responsible for adaptation to climate change in the different autonomous communities. It is a living platform for information and communication between all experts, organisations, institutions and agents active in this field whose consultation is public.

In addition, through our Environmental Volunteering Program we seek to promote the involvement of citizens in the maintenance and improvement of natural spaces. Some of the volunteer days developed to date within the framework of the Program have consisted of reforestation work and maintenance tasks of old reforestations, actions that contribute to the mitigation of climate change.