Lautaro La Camera from Lanzarote, a 20-year-old student of the degree in Food Science and Technology at the University of Granada, participated last Monday in the last session of the first Citizen Assembly for the Climate, which was attended by the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera.
Lautaro explained to La Voz that the assembly started last November. “I received an email asking if I wanted to participate, and I was interested, because the main objective was to make proposals to raise them to the Government of Spain”, says La Camera, who also adds that all these initiatives had as their main objective “to make a fair ecological transition”.
The first five sessions of the Citizen Assembly for the Climate were through video conferences, in which it was established that the one hundred people who participated were divided into “areas of life”. “I had the area of food and sustainable production, and we worked in small groups”, explains Lautaro La Camera.
The Citizen Assembly for the Climate carried out, among all the “areas of life”, a total of 172 proposals to achieve the objective of a “fair” ecological transition. The conclusions were presented last Monday to the President of the Government and the Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge.
Among all the ideas, Lautaro La Camera places special emphasis on the need to “return to the Mediterranean diet”. “It is perhaps the most important proposal”, he adds.
In addition, another of the conclusions raised to the Government of Spain are those related to the need to “promote research, development and innovation of more harmless pesticides”, as well as the promotion of the “use of organic fertilizers”.
Regarding the possibility that the Citizen Assembly for the Climate will be repeated next year, Lautaro La Camera maintains that his opinion is “that it will be done again”. “The president told us that we would see each other next year to assess what progress has been made in relation to the proposals presented”, he concludes.