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Pedro Sánchez opens the political course today with a meeting focused on climate change

The event, which will take place at noon at the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, aims to promote an agreement to provide a coordinated and sustainable response to fires, warming and other challenges arising from climate change.

DEGAÑA (ASTURIAS), 22/08/2025.- El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez (c), acompañado por la vicepresidenta tercera y ministra para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, Sara Aagesen (i), y el presiente de Asturias, Adrián Barbón (2d), hace una declaración durante su visita al Puesto de Mando Avanzado de Degaña (Asturias), en donde se concentran los mayores esfuerzos de los equipos de extinción en Asturias. EFE/ J.L. Cereijido
Pedro Sanchez. Photo: EFE

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, will present today, at 12 noon, the proposalfor a State Pact  at an event to be held at the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which will also be attended by the President of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona.

The State Pact to Address the Climate Emergency will focus the opening ceremony of the Chief Executive's political course on Monday at the headquarters of the Ministry headed by Sara Aagesen, who has called for "coordination and unity in the face of the tragedy of fires" during her visit to the National Prediction Centre of the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET).

With regard to the content of the treaty, the Minister is convinced that "the rural component, the element of demographic challenge, will be indispensable".

On the other hand, asked whether more resources and more professionals are needed to deal with fires, he has stressed that there must be "professionalized personnel"and has opted to" dignify the career by establishing better training and operational conditions. "

In order to pave the way for the State Pact, the President of the Government has set up an Interministerial Commission for Climate Change and Energy Transition, the first meeting of which was held in Moncloa before the last Council of Ministers.

The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change and Energy Transition is set in motion to achieve the best treatment of public policies in the field of transition to a more ecological production and social model.

Sanchez has advocatedtheneed to "resize and redefine all aspects related to climate change" with the fires that have ravaged much of Spain this summer and the record temperatures recorded in several regions.

For the President of the Esornamental Government, this is "something that institutions and other members of society must do together." "The climate emergency affects us all, "he said.

The Socialist leader believes that 'they must make a gamble that goes beyond legislatures, so climate emergency and climate emergency policies must be state policies'.

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