Overview

• Sara Aagesen updated the August burned area to 336,345 hectares, with Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura accounting for about 97% of the total.
• Galicia recorded 143,628 hectares, Castilla y León 141,264 and Extremadura 41,525, with protected areas and habitats for more than 350 threatened species among the zones affected.
• Pedro Sánchez reaffirmed the push for a cross-party agreement on the climate emergency and set December as the goal to conclude it, including plans to establish a State Civil Protection agency.
• The Interior Ministry highlighted record activation of the UME with 43 deployments during the crisis, while opposition parties disputed the government’s handling and questioned centralization plans.
• Experts convened by the Fundación Pau Costa proposed investing €1 billion annually to manage about 1% of forests for prevention, as Copernicus data showed Galicia alone represented roughly 14% of Europe’s burned area this year.