The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this Monday that a State pact against the climate emergency cannot be reached as long as there are "denialist" parties that reject the evidence of global warming.
"Climate change is not a subjective issue," Torres assured when asked, after meeting with the rectors of the public universities of the Canary Islands, about the lack of progress in the State pact announced by the President of the Government in September 2025 after several episodes of fires and extreme weather events.
The minister argued that the increase in temperatures and phenomena such as the dana in the Mediterranean demonstrate the effects of global warming and stressed that forest fires are becoming increasingly serious.
Torres maintained that to advance in a national agreement "what we need is for everyone to share the foundations. At this moment, this is not happening."
"There are those who deny climate change, there are those who are deniers of a situation that is evident," he stated, pointing out that "if they do not agree on this, because it is the evidence of climate change, there are parties that deny it, it is impossible for us to have a State pact" which, however, he considered "totally essential."
The minister also defended coordination between administrations in the face of emergencies such as forest fires and recalled that the autonomous communities can request the declaration of level 3 when a fire affects several territories.
Torres once again conveyed his "support" and "solidarity" to the people affected by the fires registered in different parts of the country and warned that these phenomena "are not an exceptional circumstance," but rather a situation that is repeated "on all continents."
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