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. When the entourage arrives in the Moroccan city, on the 16th, they will deliver a manifesto.
The director of the Ministry’s 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.
Castañeda, who has been accompanied by the deputy mayor and mayor of the Seville City Council Juan Carlos Cabrera; by the vice-president of the Spanish Network of the Global Compact, Víctor Viñuales; and by the secretary of the Board of Directors of Iberdrola Julián Martínez-Simancas, among others, 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) where 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.
The initiative has a parallel historical‐cultural aspect called “From Seville to Marrakech: the Path of the Three Towers” and includes a series of activities.
COP 22
The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), as well as the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-MOP12) and the first Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, will be held in Marrakech from 7 to 18 November.
At this Summit, Spain is pursuing progress on all issues in a balanced manner, paying special attention to obtaining tangible results in the negotiating texts and achieving an increase in climate action and transparency mechanisms before 2020.
