The workshop on science and dissemination on climate change in the Mediterranean, organised by the State Meteorological Agency for the Weather and Climate (AEMET), has been inaugurated at the Assembly Hall of the Office of the Principal.

The opening ceremony was chaired by the Principal of the Universitat de Valencia, Mª Vicenta Mestre, the Secretary for Environment, Hugo Morán, and the general director of the Agència Valenciana de Seguretat i Resposta a Emergències, José María Ángel.

The Principal Mª Vicenta Mestre has congratulated AEMET “for choosing this topic and transfer the information and awareness about global warming and its impact in our lives into society. With the objective of working for a future for everyone, the Universitat will collaborate with initiatives as valuables as this one because the success of this workshop will be the success of society as a whole”, has outlined the Principal.

On his behalf, the secretary Hugo Morán has confirmed that, according to the latest study, 88% of the population is aware about the impact of climate change in their lives, “and it would be an anomaly that in that union between citizens and science, politics is not aligned”. Morán has reminded everyone that “climate change is the biggest challenge that humanity faces. For that reason, we have to change strategic policies on topics such as territory, tourism, agriculture, economy… We have to tell the truth to the poele and face brave policies because denialism is an irresponsible escape”.

General director José María Batalla has assured that “climate change conditions the responses that we have to give in light of emergencies. Because of that, we have to improve the typology of our responses, and that can only be done from the scientific considerations that stem from workshops like today’s”.

The objective of the Jornada sobre Fenómenos Meteorológicos Extremos en el Mediterránea is to make society aware that global warming, generated because of the increase of the atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gasses, is having a special impact in the Mediterranean because of its shape. This could be the reason behind the increase of meteorological adversity that the Mediterrenean shores are suffering, especially the Balearic islands.

The workshop will be broadcast live through Mediauni in the following link: http://mediauniweb.uv.es/fma_mediterraneo/?tag=FMA_Mediterraneo

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