The Municipal Assembly of Lagoa will promote the debate Intermunicipal Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PIAAC) in the Algarve, on March 18, at 21 pm, in the Cultural Center Auditorium – Convento de São José.
This public session, with thematic debate format, will be attended by Luís Dias, scientific and executive coordinator of PIAAC Algarve, Cristina Veiga Pires, researcher at the University of Algarve and coordinator of the plan's Coastal Zones team, Brandão Pires, 1st executive secretary of AMAL – Algarve Intermunicipal Community, and Sérgio Inácio, PIAAC manager.
This will be an AM Extraordinary Thematic Session, inserted in the thematic year “Lagoa 2020 – Sustainable City”, «aimed at discussing climate change, its causes and effects in the Algarve Region, considering the vulnerabilities that the territory presents, in particular its coastal areas”, according to AM de Lagoa.
At the same time, it is intended to "alert the population to the risks arising from climate change and make known the measures recommended to mitigate them, and, on the other hand, to sensitize the population and economic agents to the need for the efficient use of water and for the rationalization and harmonization of their use for different purposes'.
The session also aims to sensitize national policy makers "to the specificity of the Algarve region, not always understood and considered, and to the need to implement, as a matter of urgency, the measures outlined in the PIAAC - Intermunicipal Plan for Adaptation to Changes Climate Change in the Algarve».
The debate should focus on two main axes, water resources and Coastal Zones, which "are two of the problems arising from climate change that most concern the Algarve population", adds the same body.
For AM de Lagoa, «the scarcity of water resources and the severe drought are reasons of serious concern for the Algarve population, political and economic agents in the Region, as water is a critical factor for its sustainable development».
“No less worrying, in the medium/long term, is the rise in sea water, as a result of global warming, which could have devastating effects on the Algarve coast, especially on coastal villages. The debate of the PIAAC – Adaptation Plan to Climate Change in the Algarve is, therefore, an urgent, timely and necessary debate», he concluded.
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