Abstract: In January 2018, the President of the Island Council sent and official letter to the JRC to explore the possibility of carrying out a similar workshop in Gran Canaria with regards to the topic of climate change adaptation. The JRC accepted and proposed the analysis of drought risks since Gran Canaria Island had been affected by a severe drought the previous year, in 2017. Both organisations agreed and collaborated to develop the ACEQUIA workshop called ‘Climate change, droughts and water uses in Gran Canaria’. It took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 18-20 June 2018. This report is one of the outcomes of this workshop and has a twofold task. Firstly, it is aimed at summarising the main conclusions obtained in the ACEQUIA workshop, and secondly, it is also aimed at moving a step forward in the proposal of more detail actions to tackle drought risks in Gran Canaria by means of co-creation of knowledge. This report will be adopted by the Council of Gran Canaria, as well as the Island’s Municipalities that have become signatories of the Covenant of Mayors.
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Case Study
Yeray Hernandez (1) and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz (2)
(1) European Commission, JRC
(2) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Material and methods
Yeray Hernandez (1), Ângela Guimarães Pereira (2) and Paulo Barbosa (3)
(1) (2) (3) European Commission, JRC
Drought modelling
Sara Hernández (1)
(1) Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables, S.A. (ITER)
Impacts of droughts on the primary sector
Sebastián Suárez Bordón (1)
(1) Agencia de Extensión Agraria de Arinaga, Cabildo de Gran Canaria
Desalination and the use of renewable energies in Gran Canaria
Baltasar Peñate Suárez (1), Ezequiel Navio Vasseur (2), Juan Blas Lozano Ruano (3) and Adrián Monterrey Viña (4)
(1) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
(2) Environmental consultant
(3) Soslaires Canarias S.L.
(4) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
Wastewater management
Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón (1), Gilberto Martel-Rodriguez (2), Antonio Gómez-Gotor (3), Fernando Fernández-Pinazo (4) and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz (5)
(1) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
(2) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
(3) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
(4) Consejo Insular de Aguas de Gran Caria, Cabildo de Gran Canaria
(5) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Dry walks: future stories of adaptation in Gran Canaria
Ângela Guimarães Pereira (1), Yeray Hernandez (2) and Paulo Barbosa (3)
(1) (2) (3) European Commission, JRC
A LOGIC (no water LOsses, wastewater reGeneratIon and deCarbonised desalination) proposal for action
Adrián Monterrey Viña (1), Antonio Gómez-Gotor (2), Baltasar Peñate Suárez (3), Ezequiel Navio Vasseur (4), Fernando Fernández-Pinazo (5), Gilberto Martel-Rodriguez (6), Juan Blas Lozano Ruano (7), María del Pino Palacios-Díaz (8), Sebastián Suárez Bordón (9), Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón (10) and Yeray Hernandez (11)
(1) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
(2) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
(3) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
(4) Environmental consultant
(5) Consejo Insular de Aguas de Gran Caria, Cabildo de Gran Canaria
(6) Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC). Gobierno de Canarias
(7) Soslaires Canarias S.L.
(8) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
(9) Agencia de Extensión Agraria de Arinaga, Cabildo de Gran Canaria
(10) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
(11) European Commission, JRC
Adaptation actions into the Covenant of Mayors of Gran Canaria
Alexis Lozano-Medina (1) (2)
(1) Consejo Insular de la Energía de Gran Canaria, Cabildo de Gran Canaria
(2) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Discussion / Conclusions
Yeray Hernandez (1), Ângela Guimarães Pereira (2) and Paulo Barbosa (3)
(1) (2) (3) European Commission, JRC