Sara Aagesenthe new head of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge He specialized in the Environment from a very young age. Government sources contextualized his appointment as a symptom of continuity of Teresa Ribera’s strategy and they place among their future challenges delving into the fight against climate change, drought or the preservation of Doñana as the country’s natural heritage.
But its technical and non-political profile, on the other hand, opens the debate on whether the Executive will modulate its green speech, at a time when Europe is debating reorienting its strategy more towards recovering its competitiveness and the setbacks in the European Green Deal are becoming increasingly evidentor if you intend to manage it, at least, in a more contained way compared to Ribera’s style.
Sara Aagesen
Sara Aagesen She is a chemical engineer, with a specialty in Environment. Complutense University of Madrid (2001). The political and professional career of Sara Aagesen es:
- Third Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (November 2024 – present)
- Secretary of State for Energy (January 2020-November 2024).
- Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (2018-2020).
- Negotiator for the Spanish delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention against Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Group of Climate Change Experts (IPCC) (since 2002).
- She has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Center and Network (CTCN) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in addition to participating as a national expert in various working groups of the European Commission and in monitoring and evaluation of community regulatory development.
- He held various responsibilities as a member of the Climate Change Office (2002-2018).
5 main environmental organizations in Spain
Mitigation, protection and adaptation to climate change, stopping the loss of biodiversity, fighting pollution, a sustainable food system, stopping the overexploitation of territory and water, as well as protecting people most vulnerable to the effects of the ecological crisis and the gender perspective in all policies are the main challenges facing Spain and require the coordination and collaboration of all ministries.
“The climate and ecological crisis is in turn associated with a social crisis where people in the most vulnerable situations suffer the environmental impacts with greater intensity.. We understand that Without social justice there will be no ecological transitiononly through the coordinated and coherent action of the different sectoral policies will it be possible to satisfy the objectives that the just ecological transition demands of us at this crucial time”, concluded the environmental organizations.