World Climate Day, does the planet have something to celebrate?

World Climate Day is commemorated on March 26 to raise awareness and sensitize global society about the importance and influence of the climate, as well as the impact of climate change on our lives, so that we achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 'Water and sanitation for all' (SDG13), before 2030.

We talk about climate when we refer to the conditions that are common in a certain place. The weather can change relatively quickly: a cold, sunny morning can be followed, in a matter of hours, by a mild, rainy afternoon. The weather, however, tends to be less variable.

Climate change acquires specific features in different areas of the planet. In Spanish territory, a lengthening of summers has been observed, estimated by AEMET, by almost five weeks since the 1970s; the decrease in average river flows, in some cases more than 20% in recent decades; the expansion of the semi-arid climate, with more than 30,000 km2 of new semi-arid territories in a few decades and the increase in heat waves, increasingly more frequent, longer and more intense.

Climate change is already a reality that is expressed throughout the planet through the rise in average temperatures, the rise in sea level, the melting of ice in the Arctic or the increase in extreme events. It affects human societies because it changes the scenarios of economic activities such as agriculture, forestry or tourism, and human health itself, threatened by heat waves and new diseases.

Climate change causes diverse changes in natural systems: if they have the opportunity, wild species move looking for the climatic conditions to which they are adapted; They can also change their vital rhythms to try to adjust to the changes that occur in the seasons. As a result, ecological imbalances and imbalances may occur.

In 1992 countries around the world adopted a major agreement with the objective of “avoiding dangerous interference in the climate system” in the so-called “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”. Decisions regarding the Convention are made in the “Conferences of the Parties”, better known by their acronym in English, COPs.

The COPs, the highest authority of the treaty, have been numbered consecutively. The first was held in 1995 in Berlin and, since then, they have been organized almost always on an annual basis... until reaching COP25 chaired by Chile but held in Madrid.

The COP21, held in Paris in 2015, marked a milestone since a great agreement was reached, focused on three major objectives:

• Keep the global temperature increase below 2°C, continuing efforts to limit it to only 1.5°C.
• Increase the capacity to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, promoting development with low greenhouse gas emissions.
• Guide financial flows to achieve climate-resilient and low-emission development.

Care of the environment and gender

March is equality month. In 2020, the Women's Institute published the report “Gender and Climate Change” and made a diagnosis of the situation, which showed how the causes and effects of climate change affect women and men differently.It also carried out an analysis with a gender perspective of the climate policies implemented so far, at the international and community level and more recently, at the national and regional level.

How do you understand and raise awareness about Fraternidad-Muprespa top care?

In 2016 the Mutua began to verify its Carbon Footprint, which involved carrying out a plan of corrective measures and reduction of our emissions, which allowed us to obtain the Calculation and Reduction seal from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. In addition, an Emissions Reduction Plan has been prepared that includes several short, medium and long-term measures, such as changes in lighting systems, use of remote management and telemetry systems, replacement of different air conditioning equipment and deregistration of vehicles that run on fossil fuels.