Climate change mitigation - Why care? (Spain)

Spain is highly vulnerable to climate change, a threat that can seriously affect the availability of water resources, biodiversity and natural ecosystems, erosion, declining state of coasts and human health linked to rising temperatures and extreme weather events.

Responses to climate change focus on two major challenges:

• Climate change mitigation: Achieved by halting the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by reducing emissions and capturing emitted gases in sinks.
• Climate change adaptation: Achieved by minimising the associated hazards and impacts.