CARM.es - The Community presents natural solutions to minimize the effects of adverse weather at the National Environmental Congress (CONAMA)

05/06/2021

It is the only autonomous community to present its Nature-based Solutions in the session held on the issue this week

The regional strategy for sustainable architecture and constructions stood out as a road map and example of developing naturalisation in cities and improving quality of life

This week, during the National Environmental Congress (CONAMA), the Department for Development and Infrastructure presented interventions related to Nature-based Solutions (NBS) which are collected in the Action Plan of the Sustainable Architecture and Construction Strategy in the Region of Murcia (EACS) and which enhance quality of life and minimise the effects of adverse weather.

The managing director of Territory and Architecture, Jaime Pérez Zulueta, participated in one of the sessions of the national forum, directed by the president of the CONAMA Foundation, Alicia Torrego, where he explained the political action of the stimulus from the General Management to implement Nature-based Solutions (NBS) to reduce the effects of flooding and combat climate change.

He highlighted the work carried out by the Panel of Experts formed of the regional government to prevent flooding in the Region of Murcia after the DANA (Isolated Depression at High Levels) in 2019. Their conclusions on the subject of NBS were included in the Region of Murcia's Sustainable Architecture and Construction Strategy to encourage urban renaturalisation and adapting cities to climate change.

"We've adapted the regional planning regulations in order to be able to put this type of natural and innovative solutions into practice, to imitate the processes of nature as elements of run-off control in urban systems," emphasised the manager.

He also presented the other initiatives which are developed in the context of NBS, from collaboration with local councils, training, or the new knowledge tools which are being created, as well as the study commissioned by the Autonomous Community to the Polytechnic University of Cartagena which gathers a catalogue of construction methods with the aim of progressively slowing down water throughout the whole basin, by water retention, storage and infiltration into the ground.

Photography: The managing director of Territory and Architecture, Jaime Pérez Zulueta, during his speech at the National Environmental Congress held this week in Madrid