Arnuero increases the pace of implementation of the Tourism Sustainability Plan, which is being carried out as a result of the signing of the agreement between the Arnuero Town Hall and the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Innovation, Transport and Trade of the Government of Cantabria for the execution of the PSTD titled “Ecoparque 3.0, Vitamina Territory”, financed with Next Generation funds from the European Union through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain.
One of the projects included in Arnuero’s PSTD is the Climate Change Adaptation Plan, the implementation contract for which was awarded last April to the Cantabrian consultancy BRUMA Sustainability and Citizen Participation. With a sum of €14,907 (VAT included) and an execution period of 8 months, and for which documentation and diagnostic work has already begun.
In order to develop climate change adaptation plans at municipal level, there are a multitude of approaches and methodologies. In Arnuero’s case, a combination of the methodologies set out in the “Guide for the preparation of Local Climate Change Adaptation Plans” from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the “Guide for the submission of reports under the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy” from the Office of the Covenant of Mayors has been used.
Among the different sources consulted in the diagnostic phase, AdapteCCa stands out—a web platform on climate change adaptation in Spain promoted by the Biodiversity Foundation and the Spanish Climate Change Office (OECC). According to the data obtained, over the last 50 years there has been an increase in Arnuero of 1.1 degrees Celsius in average minimum temperatures and of 0.2 in the case of maximums. There has also been an increase in the duration of heatwaves, while no significant changes have been detected in rainfall.
Bearing in mind that this is a municipality whose population is gradually ageing, and whose economy is based on the services sector, with a very significant weight of tourism activity, in the coming months those areas and sectors whose adaptation to the effects of Climate Change is a priority will be identified. Based on that information, specific measures will be identified to improve the municipality’s capacity to adapt, with an emphasis on protecting the population, infrastructure and natural resources.
