A hundred people gather at Paseo del Parque for climate change: "The situation is dramatic"

Over a hundred cities in Spain joined the mobilizations organized by the Climate Alliance this weekend to demand "a fair ecological transition." Malaga was one of them this Saturday, with about twenty people gathered at Paseo del Parque - near Eduardo Ocón - under the slogan 'The climate demands action, the future hope'. One of the WWF coordinators, Claudia Berlini, expressed to this newspaper during the gathering the need to "transform the paradigm of cities, which most of the time goes in the opposite direction."

In their manifesto, they called for action at a "critical moment" worldwide. "Marked by an economic and unjust model that keeps us dependent on fossil fuels. It is a model that endangers life and whose consequences we are already suffering in the form of intense heatwaves, fires, and floods with a great impact on the population and ecosystems," they point out in the document.

Fossil Fuels

"The climate crisis hits us in increasingly tragic ways, but governments continue to be inactive. In the absence of leadership, only the push of social protests will overcome the resistance exerted by large fossil fuel industry companies to continue poisoning the planet with their gas and oil," stressed the head of the climate change campaign at Greenpeace, Pedro Zorrilla Miras.

The movement joins the Climate Summit with protests throughout Spain demanding "urgent measures"

The mobilizations were held coinciding with the UN Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil, and other participating cities in this protest action included Madrid, Bilbao, Logroño, Valencia, Granada, Córdoba, Pamplona, Barcelona, and Burgos, among others. The Climate Alliance platform brings together 40 environmental organizations, international cooperation, unions, and NGOs in this mobilization, which they hope will be "the largest climate gathering of the year."