Spain’s Sanchez Urges National Climate Pact as Fires Rage

Spain’s Pedro Sanchez called for a nationwide pact uniting all levels of government to combat what he called an accelerating climate emergency as wildfires raged in several regions of the country.

“The climate emergency that’s ravishing the world is increasingly more accelerated, more severe and more frequent, especially in places like the Iberian Peninsula,” the prime minister said on Sunday in Orense, in the northwestern region of Galicia, one of the most devastated by blazes. “We are going to propose a big nationwide pact for the mitigation and adaptation to the climate emergency.”