The Sierra Nevada biosphere reserve has been highlighted by UNESCO as a case study in good practice against climate change.

The international coordinating council for the organisation’s Man and the Biosphere programme met in Dresden, Germany, recently, which was preceded by an international conference, ‘For life, for the future. Biosphere reserves and climate change’. The conference analysed the work of 564 biosphere reserves and a report which has been now been published on good practice case studies includes the Sierra Nevada as a reserve which fully integrates climate change into its work ‘as a very high priority’.

The report notes that the Global Change Observatory’s monitoring programme is one of the key activities of Sierra Nevada, and adds that, ‘The Spanish biosphere reserve invests more than 30 million dollars on forest adaptation and 9 million dollars on reforestation. Many other projects of more than a million dollars are underway such as adjusting to increasing drought, adaptation in agriculture or protecting rare high-altitude flower species’.

Granada Hoy newspaper reports that Sierra Nevada is the only natural space in Spain which takes part in UNESCO’s Glochamore project, a world-wide network of 28 biosphere reserves which studies global change in mountain regions.

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