The mayor of Águilas, Mari Carmen Moreno, together with the mayor of Green Zones and Environmental Education, Bartolo Hernández and Ginés Desiderio Navarro, and the technician of Economic-Financial Management of the City of Águilas, Diego Mª Martínez, have visited the forest park of 30,000 square meters that is being created in Águilas and that is already in the last phase of execution.
This large green area, whose irrigation will be carried out with purified water, carrying out the impulse and distribution of it through photovoltaic energy, is an initiative to adapt to climate change that Águilas, together with the municipalities of Cartagena and Lorca, the Chambers Municipalities of Mértola and Alfândega da Fé (Portugal) and the Municipality of Smiltene (Latvia), is part.
It should be noted that it is co-financed with European Life Funds under the Life Adaptate Project, together with the Info and the City Council.
During the visit, the first mayor of Madrid stressed that "this large native green area will represent some of the existing bioclimatic floors in the Region. The main objective of this pilot action is to adapt locally to climate change, in this case through a action that makes possible the generation of shade, the decrease of the temperature and the conservation of the humidity, to apply later this experience in other European areas ".
Likewise, this forest park, which will also fulfill the function of educational pedagogical space, has a bike lane and a network of roads and trails.
In parallel to this action, it should be remembered that municipal technicians continue to work on the drafting of the Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Plan.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas