The Department of Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, represented by Mireia Mollà, has presented this week a visual tool which defines the behavior of the coastal strip of the Valencian Community, through predictive scenarios in the year 2050 and 2100 based on greenhouse emissions.
The minister Mireia Mollà has indicated in her speech that the objective of the viewer is to encourage the administrations with competences on the coast to "adopt courageous measures and strategies that minimize the effects of climate change on the natural environment and the safety of people".
The devastating situation of Dénia in the coming decades
The viewer, which has been made based on the parameters used by the UN panel of experts on climate change applied to the Valencian coast, already shows preliminary results of instability aggravated by the increasingly recurrent and virulent extreme meteorological phenomena.
One of the points with the greatest climatic pressure is the Marina Alta, taking the worst part of the capital, Dénia, due to its geography. In fact, according to this open consultation instrument, the municipality will suffer in a little more than a couple of decades, with a medium probability, episodes of flooding that will leave many neighborhoods in the urban area under water, such as Baix la Mar, all the area of Miguel Hernández, Patricio Ferrándiz, Saladar, Marquesado and Joan Fuster.
Area Marines It will also suffer these floods, flooding most of the land between the Camí de Gandia and what is now the seashore.
How will the retreat of the coast affect our city?
In fact, in the worst case scenario, a sea level rise of more than half a meter is expected in Dénia between now and the end of the century. This scenario, the most pessimistic, augurs a disappearance of what is now ours beaches by 2100 due to the retreat of the coast. In addition, in Les Marines it will affect the urbanizations and houses located on the first lines of the beach, completely disappearing the entire urbanized area of Les Deveses between the Les Marines road and the current shore.
Half of the Dianense population (21.841 people, to be exact) will be affected by these floods and by the rise in sea level.
A wake-up call to promote effective policies
Mollà, in an event that had the participation of the regional secretary, Paula Tuzón, and the general director of Climate Change, Celsa Monrós, said that this tool allows the design of "adaptation, mitigation plans and, in some cases, of withdrawal of points that in these future scenarios announce great vulnerability ".
"The best indicator that the modeling works is that the effects it predicts are already being fulfilled," said the minister. This is the case, for example, of the erosive trend on the beaches in the center of the province of Valencia; El Saler and Pinedo already show a setback of between 30 and 60 meters in the last decade.
"There are no simple or unique solutions. We have a complex governance system that should help administrations to activate formulas for protection, accommodation or even the withdrawal of construction projects," said Monrós.
In this sense, Mireia Mollà has stressed that maintaining some designs is "unsustainable" and that the withdrawal "forces us to make a brave exercise to abandon today's projects, whether planned or futureable".
He has also appealed to the responsibility of human activity in the climate emergency that must now be accompanied by "the joint ability to reverse the climate change situation for greater collective action."
This tool was created with the intention of joining other plans such as the new Climate Change and Ecological Transition Law, the Valencian Climate Change and Energy Strategy or the Valencian Energy and Climate Plan.
The person in charge of Ecological Transition in the Generalitat Valenciana has remarked that acting in adaptation and mitigation of climate change is to guarantee economic activity, environmental protection, social welfare and security. He concluded his speech with a message for the town councils of the coastal municipalities: "It is an essential tool and we want to help you along this path with our strategies and skills."
Climate change is Real and the rise of the sea is also Real.
Enough of the irresponsible pseudo-journalism of fear promoters. I'll tell you another…. A meteorite is going to fall on Campos Street, I don't know when but look up that it's going to fall.
Nothing has happened until now, nothing will happen ahead ,,,,,,,,,
Don't make me laugh! Unfortunately, this situation will come ...
Like nothing has happened? The sea level has risen that is what has happened and is happening and that is why in areas like Las Deveses they are losing the houses built years ago ax meters from the beach but now have the sea right at their doorstep. Another thing Anastasia, that absence of "h" in your comment, you don't see anything strange either, right? The sea will have taken them away… but don't worry, nothing happens either….
And with all this information, why do they continue to give licenses, construction in the first line of the Coast? It is not worth saying that they did not know.
If these studies are well carried out and I have no reason to doubt it ... the situation that will arise is terrible.
From a practical point of view, I believe that the Messrs of the Denia City Council, by the way of the same political color as the Generalitat, should seriously put their batteries into action. They should not think that by 2050 they will no longer be in the City Council.
That is, stop giving construction licenses like the ones they have been giving in recent years on the coast and start thinking about infrastructures and how to minimize said impact. ALREADY TAKE
The general direction of Coasts of the PSOE will take away your house, by declaring an area at risk of flooding, so say goodbye to the town. Read the law of COSTS. That happens to you for building in a municipality with a beach. That is what the PSOE and Compromis want. Read the Coastal law and ENJOY your rulers. The residents of Denia will end up like those of La Palma with nothing. I insist, read the coasts law.
Nothing has happened until now, nothing will happen ahead ,,,,,,,,,
So said those who built the house right on the side of an Anastasia volcano. By the way, those "h" have been taken by the sea?
Pluto voice from the Baie d'Alicante from Benidorm to Alicante. Neither plus haut nor plus bas où dès une pluie, les rues deviennent des torrents d'eau. C'est unimaginable, mais malheureusement vrai. Je suis très contente de m être installée près de San Juan d'Alicante. Et nous and avons toujours 2 degrés en plus profitant du micro climat! You can contact me on mp Facebook.
Hmm, I was going to buy an apartment in Joan Fuster ... I don't think so anymore