Science for an ambitious and lasting State Pact to address the climate emergency

For this Pact to be truly transformative, it must recognize science as an essential pillar in all its phases: negotiation, drafting, implementation, and evaluation.

• Science must be the driving force behind these measures, ensuring that the Pact does not become merely a declaration of intent.
• The Pact must be supported by a robust and well-funded R&D&I system to ensure independence.
• Consolidating the science-policy interface is key, with permanent structures at the state and regional levels, stable funding, specialized intermediaries, and a cultural shift that gives greater weight to evidence in decision-making.
• Disinformation must be combated with specific measures to promote a scientific and environmental culture at all educational levels and ensure an informed citizenry.

The State Pact must be a broad and lasting agreement, based on a stable political consensus capable of transcending legislative periods and circumstances, and guaranteeing the continuity of climate policies.

• Measures must be ambitious, address both mitigation and adaptation, be embedded in real structural policies, and have verifiable short-, medium-, and long-term objectives.
• A change of perspective must be sought that recognizes the complexity of the challenge, addressing it with diverse solutions, adapted to each territory and different timescales.
• The active and coordinated participation of the autonomous communities is essential, ensuring that the Pact's measures are implemented coherently and adapted to each regional situation.

Biodiversity must be a cross-cutting theme of the Pact; conserving and restoring it is essential to ensuring Spain's resilience to the climate emergency.

• Prevention and restoration actions must put nature at the center and as the foundation of our well-being, incorporating planned and sustainable forest management to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, participatory watershed management to mitigate droughts and floods, and regenerative agriculture to increase the resilience of rural systems.
• The application of nature-based solutions to ensure resilient cities adapted to heat waves and extreme weather events should be a priority.
• The nature perspective must be transversal and shared among the various sectors, recognizing that the conservation and restoration of biodiversity is essential to achieving the objectives of the Pact.

At CREAF, we reiterate our commitment to climate action and remind everyone that a State Pact will only be effective if it is structural, ambitious, supported by science, and has sufficient resources for its implementation.