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Spain PM Vows 'Climate Pact' on Visit to Fire-Hit Region
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed to establish a national pact to address the climate emergency during his visit to the fire-affected region of Ourense in Galicia on August 17.
- Spain is facing its third week of heatwave alerts, with firefighters battling wildfires in regions such as Castile and Leon, Galicia, Asturias, and Extremadura.
- The Spanish government announced plans to create the national pact to mitigate climate issues by September, emphasizing that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires.
- Sanchez expressed commitment to do 'everything possible' for fire victims to restore their normal lives.
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Spain battles raging wildfires amid weekslong heatwave
Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to fight wildfires ravaging the country, as southern Europe faces a wave of extreme climate events fueled by heatwaves. Nearly all of Spain on Sunday was under extreme risk of wildfires, which have burned through around 390,000 acres this year — roughly the size of metropolitan London — as oppressive temperatures have also seen fires break out in Greece, Portugal, and France. Europe is the world’s fastest-war…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called for the establishment of a national alliance of all levels of government to combat what he said was the accelerating climate crisis, as fires rage in several regions of the country.
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DnoticiasPedro Sánchez promises to provide the resources needed to the autonomous communities to extinguish fires that extinguish the country and proposes a "wide state pact to mitigate climate emergency".
Failing the "partisan struggles and ideological questions" and "focusing on scientific evidence": in view of the scale of the devastation caused by the fires in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Sunday "a national pact to deal with the climate emergency". ...
The Socialist Prime Minister, who faces the criticisms of the regions affected by the fires and held by the conservative opposition, intends to give an answer "to the fires ravaging Spain".
The recent fires that have burned more than 70,000 hectares across the country are at the heart of the political debate; their management comes first to the regions, but the central state can come into play when the situation worsens.
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