24/03/2014

The Cities and Climate Change campaign continues until Sunday in Alcalá de Henares

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Until next Sunday, April 11, activities around the “Cities and Climate Change” campaign will continue to be carried out in Alcalá de Henares. The initiative consists of exhibitions, workshops, information tables and educational games on climate change, in which those over 10 years of age can participate, both individually and in family groups or in organized visits.

It is a project of Ecologists in Action, with the collaboration of the Biodiversity Foundation, under the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, which is part of an action whose itinerary includes 50 Spanish cities, over the next three years.

The central axis of the activity is to highlight the importance of the role played by cities in climate change. As the most populated areas on the planet, they consume large amounts of energy and resources, while being an important and growing source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

For this reason, the project stresses the great potential of cities to reduce GHG emissions, not only through the change of daily habits, but also through social participation in urban design.

On Avenida de Guadalajara in Alcalá de Henares (from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.), visitors will be able to approach an information booth with materials for all ages; workshops for all audiences (one where the carbon footprint can be calculated and another to participate in the design of a sustainable city and seek participatory solutions to climate change) and an exhibition on climate change and the responsibilities of the different actors in society.