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The climate emergency knocks on the world's door

2022-07-07T18:41:53.894Z


The second day of the Ecosystem Now forum, organized by EL PAÍS, brings together leading national and international experts in search of answers to the great environmental challenge


Hundreds of thousands of years ago the human being inherited a paradise.

All eras have their difficulties and it is in the "genetics" of man to face them and solve them.

The problem is that something as essential to subsistence as the weather has been taken to the extreme.

Fires, droughts, floods, heat waves, freezing temperatures.

Extreme events are becoming more frequent.

It is, perhaps, our last chance to reverse the emergency.

A call.

Civil society, business, environmental organizations, activists, politicians, regulators, young people, scientists.

The bells ring for everyone.

EL PAÍS

,

promoted by Santander, sponsored by EY, Ferrovial, Redeia, Familia Torres and Veolia;

and with the collaboration of COAM and Felicidad Collective, organizes the

Ecosistema Now event

,

whose second day is celebrated this July 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 8:15 p.m. —with various breaks—.

This day talks about the threats facing the climate.

Problems are analyzed, solutions are proposed.

Logistics and transport, the new architecture adapted to climate change, the role of technology, the materials that could replace the old and polluting ones, the innovative forms that build the mobility of the future, electrification, the challenge (we already feel in the Ukraine granary) of managing food scarcity and abundance along with case studies of various start-ups working to find a way out.

Of course, there will be a geopolitical and social interpretation of our time.

Can current capitalism solve the climate emergency?

Will this green commitment be delayed due to the invasion of Ukraine, or will it be accelerated?

Does the great hope lie in those who will inherit the Earth: the young?

We will touch an increasingly less fertile soil.

100% of the nations fail to meet their objectives of halting the loss of biodiversity and the human being seems to get used to a certain "dailyness" of natural catastrophes.

With what consequences?

The meeting opens, in conversation with Pablo Guimón, editor-in-chief of Society of EL PAÍS, Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain.

Giles K. Bailey speaks, as a world expert, on shared mobility and electrification.

And Carlos Moreno, creator of the concept of the "city of 15 minutes" (which is proposed in Paris) and renovating architects —Iñaki Alonso and Isabela Velázquez, among others— also participate, underpin the narrative of new materials and ways of building.

May López, Director of Business Development for Sustainable Mobility, explains how to “get around” to green cities and from the vineyard, Josep Mª Ribas, Director of Climate Change at Familia Torres, recounts the effect of extreme weather on the vines .

After,

The afternoon session (beginning at 4:30 p.m.) proposes the need for inclusive capitalism under the voice of Stephany Griffth-Jones, economist and advisor to the Central Bank of Chile.

And geopolitics has its space with Gonzalo Escribano, an expert from the Elcano Royal Institute and the journalist Marta Peirano and the coordinator of the Citizen Assembly for Climate, Joaquín Nieto.

Meanwhile, the minutes of biodiversity come through Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente, biologist, and Elena Pita, director of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.

The oceanographer, Ana Payo-Payo, also participates.

The meeting will end with a debate between the paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, the philosopher Alicia Puleo and the anthropologist Emilio Santiago.

The event begins at 9:00 am and can be followed live on the EL PAÍS website and on its social networks.

And in person at the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), located at Calle de Hortaleza, 63.

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Source: elparis

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