SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, the island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, and the island director of Coordination and Support for the President, Aarón Afonso, have inaugurated this Wednesday the ‘SDG Conference. A common path towards sustainability’, which will be held until this Thursday at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
The objective of this event is to disseminate and share experiences between public and private entities that promote activities aimed at the implementation and dissemination of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all through the holding of different presentations, round tables and training workshops. .
The insular president, Pedro Martín, explained that the Sustainable Development Goals “must guide” the way of working and behaving in the corporation.
“We wanted the SDGs to not only belong to one area, but to be based on the Presidency in the Island Council of Tenerife so that from there the multiple activities and actions that necessarily have to be transversal and that commit all areas could be organized. of the Cabildo”, he highlighted in a note.
He also recalled that the entire budget of the Cabildo de Tenerife is already oriented towards compliance with the SDGs, as is the example of the agreement signed with Aguas de las Cuencas de España (ACUAES), which has an investment of 170 million euros to provide to the island of a comprehensive sanitation and treatment system that will definitively resolve the problem of discharges, an action that is aligned with SDG number 6 (Water and sanitation).
Another of the Cabildo’s initiatives for compliance with the SDGs is the one aligned with number 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) and consists of the recent signing of the island’s new waste management contract, with an award budget of 397,475,058 euros, the largest contract in the history of the Cabildo de Tenerife.
The island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, stated that “climate change is an undeniable reality” and that is why the territories have to “apply” and implement measures to work on mitigation and adaptation.
“The Cabildo de Tenerife is a sensitive administration with this matter and that is why we have assumed the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, going to the concrete as the actions that the island president has just described,” he commented.
For his part, the insular director of Coordination and Support to the President of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Aarón Afonso, reported that in these conferences it will be possible to see the work that is being carried out to prepare the Sustainable Tenerife Agenda, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Organization (UN), the Government of Spain and the Government of the Canary Islands “and which aims to obtain a vision of the island of Tenerife in the medium and long term to face the challenges of the present and the future absolutely aligned with all ODS”.
MORE FAIR AND SOLIDARITY SOCIETY
In this way, he continued, “we will be able to implement a socioeconomic development model on the island that allows us to move towards a fairer, more supportive, more inclusive society, achieving a balance between the economic and social aspects and compatible with environmental values”.
These conferences are aimed at the general public, especially for those people who are directly linked to the development of programs and actions related to the Sustainable Development Goals, both from public administrations, companies and business organisations, groups and associations.
Program
The first day will be dedicated to learning about the current situation of the 2030 agendas at the state, regional and island levels.
The presentation of the 2030 Agenda at the state level will be given by the General Director of Organization and Resources of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), María Eugenia Simarro, while the General Director of Research and Coordination of Sustainable Development of the Government of Canary Islands, David Padrón, will present the 2030 Agenda for the Canary Islands.
At the insular level, the director of Rationalization of the Insular Public Sector of the Government Area of the President of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Fernando Fariña, will speak about the strategy and integration of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan as an instrument for the development of the Agenda.
At the end of this day, the round table ‘The Island Councils: their role in the development of the 2030 Agenda’ will be held.
The second day will include a training workshop on the SDGs for groups, entities and companies and will focus on publicizing the experiences in disseminating and fulfilling the SDGs in various fields such as education, SMEs, volunteering or the university.
