The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge congratulated the public this Friday for responsibly following last Wednesday’s total solar eclipse and not causing significant fires. This was expressed in a meeting of the Environmental Management Committee, held this Friday under the leadership of Sara Aagesen, Third Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
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This meeting was convened to analyze the evolution of forest fires this summer. Also attending were the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, and the technical teams from the Directorate General of Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification, and the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The Environmental Management Committee analyzed the situation resulting from the eclipse. “No significant incidents related to the causing of fires or impacts on the natural environment have been reported, which is very good news,” according to sources from the Ecological Transition. Therefore, the department led by Aagesen congratulated “the public and all those who enjoyed the eclipse with the utmost respect and caution towards the natural environment.”
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“This result is a success of a conscious and responsible public, and at the same time, a success of the coordinated and centralized prevention work by the CECOD (State Coordination and Management Committee) led by the Government of Spain, the collaboration with the autonomous communities, as well as all the awareness-raising work carried out in the previous weeks,” those sources added.
Ecological Transition will conduct an in-depth assessment of prevention and results in order to draw lessons for the next solar eclipse, which will take place on August 2, 2027, and will be seen in total form in Spain in southern Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla.
