FCC Construcción continues to participate actively in COP25 in Madrid. On this occasion, Francisco Esteban, president of PIANC and technical director of SSTT of FCC Construcción, participated in the discussion table “Accelerating Action to Build a Resilient 1.5º World”.

In his presentation, based on the work carried out in the “Navigating a Changing Climate” initiative, he showed the three practical barriers that port operators, inland waterways and, in general, of all transport infrastructures, have to overcome if they intend to put Practical resilient and effective adaptation measure:

1. Face the uncertainty inherent in climate actions
2. Understand the economic consequences of not acting, in addition to the environmental ones
3. Dismantle the myth that adaptation to climate change is necessarily complex and expensive.

In addition, he explained the declaration of climate change, published by PIANC on the occasion of the summit, which establishes a set of simple and relatively inexpensive measures that contribute to developing significant improvements in infrastructure resilience.

The Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in New York on May 9, 1992 with the objective of strengthening public awareness, on a global scale, of the problems related to climate change.

This summit is the last meeting to activate the Paris Agreement, which has to be fully in force in January 2020 and which, signed in 2015 at COP21, is the largest binding agreement against the climate crisis. It establishes a global action plan to limit global warming well below 2 degrees and continue efforts so that it does not exceed 1.5 degrees.

It is necessary to emphasize that no Spanish construction company has been able to present or participate in any roundtable in the blue restricted area.