‘Climate Change: Solutions for a new scenario’ is the title of the new study carried out by the NGO WWF, in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation. A new report that reveals the effects of climate change in Spain, as well as some of the measures for adaptation to these changes that have already been implemented in other countries.

WWF thus wants to focus attention on the necessary keys to anticipate the problems arising from climate change, while warning about the incidence of greenhouse gas emissions, a problem that requires, according to ecologists, urgent reduction measures. WWF has also pointed out the urgency of green measures that allow human beings to adapt to these changes and promote the prevention of ecosystems. As far as prevention is concerned, the advantage is clear, because as WWF has already pointed out, “the earliest countries will have a clear competitive advantage over the others”.

In terms of biodiversity, the data predict that species from the north, such as the capercaillie and the brown bear, species for which the Biodiversity Foundation works with projects such as LIFE+ Cantabrian Capercaillie or the Bear Patrols for the conservation of the Cantabrian brown bear, will see their living space reduced, and other species will transform their habits such as the cork oak. whose forecasts indicate that it will begin to settle in more northerly spaces and at higher altitudes.

On the other hand, WWF has included in the report some of the already verifiable effects of climate change, such as the decrease in rainfall – whose decrease has been established between 18% and 42% by the end of the twenty-first century; the rise in sea level – with a forecast of growth of up to 59 centimetres during this century – as well as in temperatures – the eleven hottest years have occurred in the 90s – these indicators of the trend that increasingly extreme weather phenomena are experiencing.