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The study of climate projections of the municipality also indicates between 8% and 11% of the number of days without rain fall.

Antonio Navarro presents the diagnosis of current and future climate risks in the five strategic areas: water, agriculture, environment, health and urban development and raises some lines of action.

The City Council, through ALEM, has the roadmap that will culminate with the Municipal Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change Murcia.

Identify and know the weaknesses it is essential to act accordingly and take appropriate measures to nullify or mitigate the possible negative consequences, responding well to the requirement that may arise.

Because what is unknown, you can not fight and, let alone solve.

Faced with the challenge of climate change, the study of vulnerability and climate risk represents the basis for defining the blade municipal route that should culminate in a Municipal Adaptation Plan to address this challenge, which has a global dimension but whose resolution should get locally.

Antonio Navarro, Town Planning, Environment and Huerta, who yesterday collected the award from WWF to the municipality in recognition of the leadership of Murcia in policies to combat climate change, today both diagnosis Vulnerability and Analysis Climate risks.

"We must be aware of the reality of Murcia, the major challenge we face, and the need to find ways and alternatives that will lead to consumption of increasingly efficient, rational and social resources," said Navarro.

Frost, gales and heavy rain, less problematic events

A mandatory step is to have a diagnosis of current and future climate risks into five strategic sectors for the city: water, agriculture, environment, health and urban planning.

Available analyzes indicate that in 2064, low rainfall, increased temperatures and heat waves reach a "worrying level of risk" in the five sectors.

On the contrary, both frost practically nil, as gales, are less problematic for Murcia events.

With regard to heavy rains, which have historically course floods or flood, and despite an increase in intensity, frequency will be reduced and heavy rains would not be part of the most significant risks to Murcia.

The main results for the current century are:

- Increased average temperatures, maximum and minimum

- Decreased annual precipitation

- Progressive decrease in the number of frost days per year

- Increase warm days and tropical nights

- Increased number of days without rain

- Decreased rainfall regimes: weak, moderate, heavy and torrential

Temperature rise

In this sense, climate projections find that the two most worrying variables to Murcia are the rising temperatures and declining rainfall.

expected increases in average temperature, minimum and maximum annual 2.5 ° C throughout the region, while by the end of the century, considering the most favorable climate scenario, the frequency of tropical nights increase 25% and the number of days warm 74%.

The projections for rainfall show a decline between 8% and 11% of the number of days without rain.

Lines of action

Each sector will be influenced by these variables and receive different impacts.

In response to these climate risks, certain lines of action are proposed:

- In agriculture, cultivation of indigenous species adapted to the climate, or the implementation of alternative methods more protective cultivation under extreme conditions and allow better use of water resources, such as padding cultivation;

- In the water sector intensified action in resource management of demand side management and pollution of water bodies, either caused by flooding or scarcity of resources;

- In the natural environment, studying the adaptation of management modes of public green spaces related to more efficient irrigation without the source of water stress for planting or planting more resilient native species under extreme conditions of temperature and hydrological drought;

- In the health sector response to heatwaves and rising temperatures, it is recommended to reinforce preventive actions on vulnerable public and perform preventive measures against respiratory diseases and obesity, to reduce sources of risk ;

- In urban planning, the fight against energy poverty, strengthening infrastructure roof drainage and increased thermal comfort in the streets of the city in summer, among others, will be actions to contemplate.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia