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Spanish Government free telephone helpline for anyone affected by the La Palma eruption – 900 222 665 Spanish Government insurance compensation consortium –www.consorseguros.es To help, clothes aren’t needed but monetary donations are welcome and can be sent by Bizum (mobile bank apps might need latest update) – use code 03747. Or make an e-transfer to account ES47 2100 9169 0122 0017 9456 quoting reference Donación volcán. More info on this from La Palma Cabildo HERE. Updated 11pm 27/9: Dantesque scenes tonight as the reactivation is producing much more fluid lava flows which are now just 300m from the sea. No-one is now guessing whether orREAD MORE

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Photo: In Tenerife. Updated 25 September: The Cabildo has put out to tender the last stage of its works in the protected natural area of Masca, that of the renovations to the little jetty at Masca beach. The Cabildo says that it has now finished its improvements to the bed of the barranco itself, and so this work will complete a route that is one of the most popular with hikers and active tourism companies, and when these works are completed it will be possible to return by sea after descending the ravine. The works have a budget of over €1.5m and should take aroundREAD MORE

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Yesterday, the United Nations published an analysis of 100+ countries’ climate action plans as officially recorded and the picture produced can’t be described as just worrying or concerning. The only word is appalling. The NDC Synthesis report finds that although there’s a slow downward trend in greenhouse gas emissions, these will get nowhere near the Paris Agreement’s goal and, despairingly, although global carbon emissions need to be cut by 45% by 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of hotter conditions by the end of the century, they are in fact set to rise by 16%. The Synthesis Report, which can be read in full inREAD MORE

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I don’t quite know what to do other than to post this. I’ve posted here on my website before that I’m retired, no longer happy to be used as a free info desk by people who can’t be asked to do anything other than fire off an email to a free resource centre that doesn’t require them to read anything but just shovels them personalized answers, that the planet is in crisis and that people should stop travelling for non-essential reasons as a priority … and still the emails come. People travelling every other month between the UK, Spain, the Canaries … because family, holiday,READ MORE

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Graphic: Adrián Flores. Updated 15 September: Outrage over the Canarian Government’s idea of renovating coastal rock pools for sustainable “natural tourism” has been predictably widespread, and it has achieved its effect. I know many hate the actions of climate activists like XR but I’ll put below a video from James O’Brien as to how the whole difficult situation of climate protest might be seen. Meanwhile, Canarian tourism minister Yaiza Castilla has confirmed (SER radio HERE) that the ideas have been shelved specifically as a result of the high level of social protest at them. The Cabildos can consider such works in their own islands, she indicates,READ MORE

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I mentioned the Malaga fire a couple of days ago HERE and today it is still blazing ferociously. Regional authority fire chief Juan Sánchez said, indeed, that they were facing the most complex fire known to the forestry fire services in recent times. “We have been talking a long time”, he said, “about the consequences of environmental neglect or climate change. Today we are living them.” The fire has now been in overdrive for more than 100 hours and further parts of Andalusia continue to be evacuated, with the fire regaining strength even where efforts had seemed to have had some effect as in theREAD MORE