Climate

Antena 3: Spain is one of the developed countries most vulnerable to climate change (Spanish)

According to the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, some 5 million climate deaths are estimated over the next 10 years in the absence of an effective response to the consequences of climate change. Read more...

Informativos Telecinco: A total 132 countries will be vulnerable to climate change by 2030 if no action is taken, according to a DARA report (Spanish)

Former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Michael Zammit Cutajar, warned that in 2010, a total of 97 countries around the world have high levels of vulnerability to climate change, a figure which, if no action is taken, will rise to 132 countries in 2030 (from a total of 184 countries included in the study). Read more...

Agroinformación: Teresa Ribera, the Spanish Secretary of State for Climate Change, says that the adaptation to climate change requires collective responsibility and solidarity (Spanish)

Almost all countries have a high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Spain and the US are the most vulnerable among developed nations. Read more...

La Información: The climate-related mortality rate is estimated at 350,00 victims a year (Spanish)

Around 350,000 people die each year due to climate related issues, but the world could suffer 1 million deaths per year from 2030 onwards if no corrective actions are taken. Read more...

Público: 350,000 people die each year due to climate change (Spanish)

Among developed nations, Spain and the US are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Read more...

Presentation of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor in Madrid

DARA is very excited to report that the presentation of the “Climate Vulnerability Monitor” in Madrid, September 29, was a monumental success. The Spanish Ministry of Environment, EFEverde, Iberoamerican Secretary General, and DARA all shared the results of the “Climate Vulnerability Monitor: The State of the Climate Crisis”, and the “Climate Vulnerability Forum (CVF)”. Read more...

Climate Vulnerability Monitor Video

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects of climate change as communities virtually everywhere are facing them – each in radically different ways. Read the executive summary or the [...] Read more...

CVM Presentation, Madrid: September 29th

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Did we learn from Katrina?

Hurricane Irene and now Tropical Storm Lee remind us that the lessons of Hurricane Katrina have not been learned. Crucially, we have not learned to respect the precautionary principle. Read more...

Did we learn from Hurricane Katrina?

Hurricane Irene and now Tropical Storm Lee remind us that the lessons of Hurricane Katrina have not been learned. Crucially, we have not learned to respect the precautionary principle. Read more...