Filipe Duarte Santos, president of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS) and Luis Filipe Dias, coordinators of the Intermunicipal Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PIAAC – AMAL), are two of the guests of the Coordination and Regional Development Commission (CCDR) from the Algarve for the conference-debate on the theme of climate change which, on 9 May, marks Europe Day in the region.
Moderated by journalist Duarte Baltazar (RTP), the conference will take place on the 9th, at 16:30 pm, in the auditorium of the CCDR Algarve headquarters, in Faro, 30 years after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro,.
It also has guests António Miguel Pina, president of the Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL), and Pedro Coelho, regional director of the Portuguese Environment Agency.
A concert by the European Union follows, at the entrance of the building, with the participation of the Philharmonic Association of Faro and the Coral Ossónoba Group.
CCDR Algarve recalls that 93% of EU citizens considered climate change a serious problem in 2021 and 78% considered it a very serious problem. According to the Eurobarometer, in Portugal, it was identified as the most serious problem by one in five respondentss.
More than a quarter of Europeans (29%) identified climate change (18%), the deterioration of nature (7%) or health problems due to pollution (4%) as the most serious problem (in Public engagement in the fight against climate change).
According to last February's Eurobarometer, European citizens see public health (42%) as a key political priority for the European Parliament, followed immediately by the fight against poverty and social exclusion (40%) and action against climate change (39%).
It is noteworthy that at the European average level, young people point to the fight against climate change as the main priority for the European Parliament, as was evident in the Eurobarometer: health, poverty and climate as priorities.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1994, having been proposed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development.
Subsequently, in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was approved, which entered into force in 2005, and established targets for the mitigation of climate change. Later, in Paris with the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016, the implementation of the Convention was reinforced to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change in the context of sustainable development and efforts to poverty eradication.
We know that, given its geographical position, Portugal is one of the most vulnerable European countries to the impacts of climate change and that the Algarve region is exposed to a set of climate vulnerabilities, potentially exacerbated in a context of climate change, which will have an impact on different socio-economic areas and sectors in the region.
The Algarve region has faced situations arising from weather events related to heat waves, forest fires, floods and flash floods, coastal erosion, so the Algarve Intermunicipal Community promoted the elaboration of the PIAAC - AMAL and within the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, a specific measure of the PRR-Água was adopted for the Algarve Region, with intense participation of the APA, the Municipalities and entities of the Region.
On the 10th of May, the celebrations continued in Monchique, with various activities taking place under the theme “Europe and Youth: What future?”, involving local authorities, the educational community and various local and regional entities.
Europe Day 2022 in Algarve is a joint initiative of CCDR Algarve, Europe Direct Algarve, Operational Program CRESC Algarve 2020, in partnership with AMAL, University of Algarve, municipalities of Faro and Monchique, Vincentian Association, Philharmonic Association of Faro and Grupo Coral Ossónoba.
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