Tomorrow will be celebrated, May 22, the day of biological diversity and with this specified date various environmental organizations They focus on the importance of community shelters with different sustainable objectives. These are, raising the biodiversity locally, an adaptation to climate change, as well as resilient communities.
It is not something trivial if one takes into account that high temperatures are responsible for every year in Spain There are more than 4,500 deaths And on the table is the threat of 70% of the national territory that runs the risk of desert formation. In this case it is necessary Have habitable cities as quickly as possible.
“It is vital that the implementation of community shelters is performed in a huge way, supported by the administrations and generated by the neighbors, in a way that enables the population to face the heat waves from green areas and with the construction of a decent lives,” they demand.
One day to remember the importance of community climate care
Within the framework of the International Day of Biological Diversity, May 22, also known as known as Biodiversity DayEnvironmental organizations publish the report «Community climatic shelters: building in common care»Where the figure of the “community climatic shelters” is appreciated, a tool that not only enables the increase in biodiversity on a local scale, but also adaptation to climate change and the construction of resilient communities.
Climate reality, where high temperatures cause 4,600 deaths every year only in SpainAnd threatening that 70% of the state runs the risk of desert formation, make it necessary to have habitable cities, and for this purpose it is essential to increase the number and size of green areas. With these spaces, temperatures can regulate on a local scale, but also improve and allow the mental and physical health of people to generate leisure and pleasure rooms, so they have to multiply and spread fairly in all neighborhoods of the city.
However, this increase in green areas must respond to two criteria. On the one hand you must be rigged Housing policy If the decrease in rental prices, to prevent the quality of life in cities from implying a price increase that protrudes the people from their houses -in a process known as green gentrification -. On the other hand, the Renature processes together With the people who live in the territory, those who know the needs of the community are to guarantee that they respond to the general interest and not just the economic.
For this reason, organizations not only claim the construction of “climatic shelters”, understood as every room that generates thermal comfort for heat or cold waves, But demand that these hiding places can facilitate community construction processes, That they are spaces that are managed by the people who inhabit them and who have the opportunity to decide how they want their environment. “It is vital that its implementation is carried out in a huge way, supported by the administrations and generated by the neighbors, so that the population enables the heat waves from green areas and to make the construction of a decent lives,” they remember.
For more information about these hiding places, the report is Explain how they can be implemented and what are the characteristics they define. It collects various examples that in turn have an eco -minist, intersectional and inclusive look to leave everyone in the urban design that cities need. Among them are the “Network of Climate Care Care, La Prospe, Barcelona”, “Co -Educational Patios”, “We are building the climatic channel of the Antic Casc” or the “Network of care climate shelter in Ciudad Arce”. Initiatives that have earned the references category as community shelters for the community.
Finally, they ask local administrations to generate and promote Community climatic shelters, impregnated with participatory territorial managementBy direct creation in non -built country and facilitation of the development of self -managed citizen experiences such as community gardens and informal community spaces.