Climate Action Days: A Climate and Biodiversity Walk towards a green future for Aranda - Nature Walk

Format: A 1.5-hour guided "Nature Walk" through Aranda de Duero (Spain). Starting at Ribering (social innovation hub), we visit strategic locations for future Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and rewilding.

Objectives:

• Awareness: Showcase NbS benefits in mitigating heatwaves, droughts, and floods, while restoring local ecosystems.
• Engagement: Advance the public debate on reintroducing nature in the city and gather community support for NbS.
• Resilience: Use "The Inner Green Deal" approach to foster a connection with nature as a driver for climate commitment.

Topics:

• Urban Forestry: Transforming the "Santa Catalina" 2-hectare plot into a biodiverse forest to improve air quality, climatic comfort, and social cohesion.
• Wetland Restoration: Analyzing the "San Juan" lagoon restoration—recovering an ancient ecosystem to act as a natural sponge (flood prevention), carbon sink, and biodiversity hotspot.
• Blue-Green Corridors: Interconnecting local rivers (Duero, Arandilla, Bañuelos, la Nava) through "green veins" to provide ecological connectivity and habitats for biodiversity to thrive.

This event bridges local citizen-led action with the European Climate Pact’s "Together in Action" vision, demonstrating how local NbS contribute to the EU Green Deal goals.