More than 3,000 people participated in 90 environmental and sustainability volunteering activities of the Cabildo from January to April of this year. The island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, indicates that during 2021 more than 500 actions were carried out by almost 8,000 volunteers.
In this first quarter of 2022, more than 45 entities, both public and private, collaborated. Rodríguez Medina takes stock: «Last year we launched 520 activities, in which 163 firms and 7,796 people participated». This catalog of activities is carried out through the Office for Environmental Participation and Volunteering (OPVA), an organization that plans to carry out new actions in the coming months based on the promotion of good sustainable practices and citizen participation in renewable energy. and projects linked to biowaste management.
In October, the II Insular Conference on Participation and Environmental Volunteering in Tenerife will be held, in which the Environmental Volunteering Action Plan 2021-2026 and the Insular Environmental Volunteering Table will be presented. At the end of the year, reforestation actions will be carried out in various parts of the island.
Within the same area, nearly 300 professionals in planning, evaluation and environmental protection attended the II Legal Seminar on updating the subject organized by the Cabildo.
Carbon footprint
The Cabildo and the Red Cross are analyzing ways of collaborating to promote a reforestation project in agricultural spaces to offset the carbon footprint of the NGO. It is the result of the meeting between the island councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, with the provincial president of the humanitarian organization, María Teresa Pociello. Three ways to promote the Cabildo’s commitment to sustainability and the environment in three different areas, which demonstrates the transversality of these policies.
