This project launched by the Spanish Committee of the IUCN makes a comparative study of the needs for adaptation to climate change in Spain.

With the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, the Spanish Committee of the IUCN has developed the project entitled “Comparative analysis of the needs for adaptation to climate change in Spain against the actions developed by the Spanish conservationist fabric”.

The tasks implemented have made it possible to draw a map of the Climate Change adaptation actions carried out by the IUCN membership (open to other invited entities), and thus, overlap it with predictive maps of the evolution of the climate in Spain, generated by AdapteCCa. A guide of recommendations for action against Climate Change has also been drawn up based on the risks identified in each territory. Its purpose has been to direct it to conservation entities, along with a list of climate change adaptation measures, executed from Nature-Based Solutions applied by IUCN in other areas of the world with similar characteristics and problems.

With these actions, it has been possible to evaluate the capacity of the Spanish conservationist fabric to implement climate change adaptation measures, through the analysis of IUCN member entities in Spain. With the aim of being implemented in the coming years, an official CeIUCN declaration on Climate Change has been generated, with the guidelines to be followed.

The results of the project will be disseminated among various sectors: conservation entities, the scientific community, the private sector and society in general.

Some of the figures obtained determine that at least 32 member entities of the Spanish committee (73%) carried out some adaptation and mitigation action against Climate Change in the last 10 years, of which: 20 actions were purely adaptation; 26 actions were purely mitigation; 9 actions were both adaptation and mitigation. These actions were compared with the medium-future scenarios (2041-2070) of climate change of the AdapteCCa (specifically with the indicators of maximum temperature in degrees Celsius and rainy days), observing that in some of the areas where the risks associated with temperature and rainfall, such as the southwest of Spain, the density of projects developed is low.

The project was formally presented at the First CeIUCN Working Meeting on Climate Change, which, as a result of the results, the CeIUCN Declaration on Climate Change was promulgated, with the support of all member entities.