Greenpeace warns that climate change will reduce the width of the Balearic Islands' beaches by up to 30 meters.
The cause will be the rise in sea level by 2050, influenced by the increase in water temperature.
PalmClimate change will reduce the width of the Balearic Islands' beaches, causing dozens of beaches to retreat by about 30 meters, according to the report. Destruction at all costs 2025: impacts of urban planning and climate change on the coast, prepared by Greenpeace. According to Europa Press, the sea level in the Archipelago will rise more than 30 centimeters by 2050, which will cause a retreat of about 30 meters on several beaches. The rising sea level is influenced due to the increase in water temperature, which has increased by 1.6 degrees in the last four decades.
Greenpeace has pointed out that the areas with the greatest impact of permanent flooding in 2050, due to rising sea levels and meteorological events, are mainly associated with existing or urbanized wetlands (such as the Albufera de Mallorca Natural Park and the Albufereta Nature Reserve).
The organization has attacked the policy of the Balearic Government which, it considers, despite the "evident saturation" of tourist places that "suffocate" the population, continues to give the green light to tourist projects and proposes the legalization of hundreds of irregular homes, ignoring the most serious impacts of climate change.
In this sense, he criticized that "under the pretext of luxury tourism," the occupation of the first coastline is "perpetuated" with new projects or renovations in Calvià, Formentor, Ibiza, Maó, Ciutadella, and Llucalcari.
The Administration —he lamented— has lowered environmental regulations and regularized illegal housing, which, in his opinion, promotes "unsustainable" urban growth. Similarly, he pointed out that saturation also extends to the sea, with the increased number of recreational boat registrations, multiplying the environmental impact of anchoring on marine habitats, especially the meadows of Posidonia oceanica.
Most affected beaches
The report details which beaches will be most affected by permanent flooding due to rising sea levels and, on the other hand, those that will also be affected by storms. la Marjal, Colonia de Sant Pere beach, Son Serra de Marina beach, Arenal d'en Casat, Can Picafort beach, Alcúdia beach, El Morer Rojo beach, Formentor beach, Repic beach, Cala Xinxell, Chicanso beach will be, among many others, the Albufera del Grao, Salinas de Mongofre, Cala Blanca, Fornells Bay, Los Tancats, Cala Degolladors, Cala la Caleta, Cala Santandria and Cala Blanca In Ibiza, according to the report, they will be Codolà beach, Santa Figueral beach, Aigües Blanques, Cala Portinatx, Las Salinas beach, Cavallet beach, En Bossa beach and Las Figueretes beach, among others;