This report has the aim of presenting the main conclusions and lines of action set during the SUDOE MONTCLIMA project’s 1st Transnational Seminar on Natural Hazards and Climate Change in Mountain Areas, which was backed by the Pyrenean Working Community Consortium (CTP) through its Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory (OPCC) initiative. The Seminar took place partially in-person on 20 and 21 October 2020 in Soria, Spain.
In line with the MONTCLIMA project’s vocation, this Seminar’s general aim is to contribute to the improved management and prevention of the project’s four identified General introduction hazards -droughts, floods, forest fires, and erosion-, while placing a spotlight on climate change’s influence on these events. In this way, all project members contribute to the development of a reference framework that serves as a transnational strategy to prevent the natural hazards that affect Southwestern Europe’s mountain areas with particular intensity.
These mountain areas are some of those most affected by natural events, and we can expect that these risks will increase significantly in the future as a result of climate change.