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Climate change and resilience

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A global challenge

Climate change is an unstoppable process that affects all regions of the planet, its biodiversity and all social and economic sectors without distinction. The challenge of minimising its consequences is a daunting task that must be tackled immediately, that crosses nations and generations, and that is pushing governments and institutions to meet this challenge by placing the fight against climate change at the heart of their policy actions and strategic objectives.

The last 10 years

They have been the warmest in history since records began.

Ineco has analysed the resilience and adaptation to climate change of more than 50%

of the railway infrastructure and numerous Spanish airports.

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Extreme situation

The only alternative for the survival of the planet as we know it is climate-resilient socio-economic development that is able to adapt to current levels of warming and its increasingly visible effects.

Spain, due to its geographical situation and its economic and social characteristics, is a country highly vulnerable to climate change, the impact of which, in the form of extreme, intense and frequent phenomena, is becoming increasingly evident.

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The resilience of transport infrastructure

Transport is being greatly affected by the consequences of global warming in a causal interrelationship that is forcing a rethinking of many aspects. The most direct impacts are already occurring on infrastructure, where severe damage and losses due to extreme weather and hydrological events are beginning to reach worrying levels. 

A critical challenge
Adaptation measures are urgently needed to achieve a level of infrastructure resilience that not only ensures its operability and availability, but also minimises the economic, environmental and social costs of climate change. Ineco has analysed the resilience and adaptation to climate change of more than 50% of the railway infrastructure and numerous Spanish airports.

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Authors

María Carpio López

María Carpio López

Environmental Consultancy and Spatial Planning Management Expert

María Carpio López

Chemical engineer, expert in air quality and climate change with more than 14 years of experience in the transport sector in all its modes. It works on climate change and carbon footprint projects, sustainable urban mobility plans, sustainability and climate change plans, and air quality studies relating to all modes of transport. In the field of climate change adaptation, it has worked on projects covering both airport and railway infrastructure.

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Elena Curto Alonso

Elena Curto Alonso

Environmental Consultancy and Spatial Planning Manager

Elena Curto Alonso

A biologist with a master’s degree in engineering and environmental management from the EOI, she has been working for more than 18 years in Ineco, dedicated to the sustainability of transport and its infrastructure at a national and international level. It is currently focused on the development of consultancy projects related to atmospheric pollution and climate change, carrying out analyses ranging from climate change mitigation to adaptation to the effects of climate change for all types of transport infrastructures in all their phases.

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Arturo Gómez Pérez

Arturo Gómez Pérez

Environmental Consultancy and Spatial Planning Management Expert

Arturo Gómez Pérez

Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with 25 years of experience in infrastructure and environmental projects and consultancy companies. At Ineco, since 2007, it has performed technical support tasks in the field of aeronautical consultancy for clients such as Aena and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (MITMA). Since 2015, she has been working at the Environment and Territory Management Department, in technical and project management tasks and studies in the field of environmental consultancy.

Sergio Mora Alonso

Sergio Mora Alonso

Manager in the Infrastructure Management

Sergio Mora Alonso

With a degree in Environmental Sciences and Biology, as well as a Master's degree in Territorial Planning and Management of Protected Areas, he has more than 20 years of experience in the Environmental Management of Transport Infrastructures in all stages of their life cycle, from their design, execution, development and operation. This experience has helped him to develop the ADIF and ADIF-AV commissions on the Analysis of risk, resilience and adaptation to the effects of climate change on the Spanish railway network.

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