Heat Deaths Increase, but Adaptation Stagnates: only One Third of Capitals Have Climate Shelters
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There is an increase in deaths due to heat, but adaptation is stagnating. The climate crisis triggers mortality records on the peninsula as urban planning continues to be paralysed. Local governments ignore health warnings and delay investments aimed at mitigating extreme temperatures. Spanish capitals lack conditioned spaces to protect vulnerable groups free of charge during the summer. The few facilities available operate with absurd time rest…
Greenpeace has warned that Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura are the autonomous communities of the peninsular interior with "total absence of climate shelters" in their main cities, despite the fact that the extreme heat causes thousands of deaths each year in Spain. The progress in the implementation of these spaces is, according to the organization, "almost frozen" compared to the summer of 2025. Only 19 of the 52 Spanish provincial capitals …
Greenpeace warns that only 19 of Spain's 52 capitals have a network of spaces to shelter from extreme temperatures.Main Topics: Climate CrisisRead full article
Greenpeace denounces that only 19 of the 52 capitals of the province have climate shelters while June 2026 has exceeded the 1,000 deaths attributable to heat.The environmental organization urges to accelerate the urban adaptation in the face of a stagnation that leaves the most vulnerable population unprotected.A map of the lack of protection: only 19 capitals offer refuge The report «Cities in the red alive» draws a very unequal panorama.In fro…
Madrid.- Only one in three capitals of the province of Spain currently has climate shelters, according to Greenpeace, which considers this network is insufficient to protect the population from extreme heat and denounces that it is "almost identical" to the one detected in 2025. After a month of June with more than 1,000 deaths attributable to high temperatures, the organization has warned not only of the stagnation of public spaces to protect t…
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