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Antonio Navarro, councilor of Urbanism, Environment and Huerta, has presented the program of activities of Climathon 2017 to be held on October 27 in the Molinos del Rio and will be held in uninterrupted day from 9:00 to 19:00 hours , coordinated through the Municipal Service ALEM, the Local Energy and Climate Change Agency of the City of Murcia.
For this edition, Aema-rm has collaborated in the organization of the event, as well as UPCT, UMU and UCAM that have actively participated in its dissemination among the students.
This event, the largest in the world against climate change in cities around the world, is the second edition to be held in Murcia, with the aim of promoting entrepreneurial ideas that seek to protect the environment and fight against climate change .
Murcia participates this year next to the Spanish cities of Madrid, San Sebastián, Valencia, Azuqueca de Henares and the Galician cities of Santiago and Vigo.
Worldwide, the 2017 edition includes a partition of 247 cities, including Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico, Sydney, Washington and Hong Kong.
The workshops of the Climathon, directed mainly to entrepreneurs and university students of last courses and of masters, will count on the participation of mentor-dinamizadores in the subjects to treat.
The attendance will be limited to 30 people so it is necessary to make a pre-registration online.
Each city participating in the Climathon chooses its own local climate challenge.
On this occasion Murcia has called on the participants to define their vision of how the city of Murcia should be in 2030 to increase its resilience to natural disasters, coping with water shortages and rising temperatures.
During the Climathon will work on emblematic locations of the Municipality of Murcia in terms of its problematic and potential: University Square and the Murcia Rio Project. Interdisciplinary groups will be formed, in charge of elaborating a conceptual proposal that will transform the selected space into a stage of an exciting and positive future for the city, which will finally be reflected in an image.
"The aim of the Climathon is to make valuable and interesting contributions, as well as to establish enriching debates", explained Councilman Antonio Navarro, "and to promote an illusory and positive vision of our city that will be shaped in a design of the city of Murcia for later jobs".
In addition, the best contributions and ideas will be included in the Climate Change Adaptation Plan of the City of Murcia.
During the day, Murcia will connect with other cities, not only Spain, but the rest of Europe, and the planet, to exchange and share feelings, experiences, lessons learned and solutions, in this global hackaton of ideas.
Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
Murcia adhered in 2016 to the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, with a commitment to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 through a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (PAES), which is currently and a Climate Change Adaptation Plan that has been working since 2015. As in the previous edition of Climathon, this event is an example of a participatory vocation where each of the individual contributions are taken in account.
In the last edition of 2016, Murcia was one of the three Spanish cities involved in this marathon of ideas, along with the cities of Castellón and Valencia, and the best results of participation.
The challenge was to find solutions to the problems of water scarcity, urban planning and integration of the Murcia garden, all within the framework of the City's Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change Plan.
"The best contributions and proposals made by the thirty participants are already part of the document on Measures to Adapt Climate Change of the Municipality of Murcia," said Navarro.
Facts about the Climathon
The Climathon was held for the first time in 2015 and is a European initiative promoted by Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private partnership focused on innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change, addressing one of the major challenges to climate change. which are facing the European Union.
In 2016 Climathon grew from 19 to 59 cities, reaching 16.8 million people worldwide and.
At the same time last year's edition, 1,500 people joined this global movement to seek solutions to climate change in a collaborative way.
They generated more than 2,330 ideas in a day in which Climathon extended to 59 cities along the 6 continents.
More information: http://www.energiamurcia.es/climathon2017
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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