May 28, 2025 – (News)
The councilor of Sustainability participates in a conference on technological solutions that enable it to cope more effectively with challenges such as climate change or drought
The minister of Sustainability and Environment, Catalina Garcia, has highlighted the commitment of the regional government of Andalusia by the modernization of the environmental management, through the digitisation and artificial intelligence, ‘as a fundamental pillar for our service from the Concierge to the citizenship, as an engine to make more agile access to environmental information and, ultimately, with the purpose of improving the quality of that information, the reliability and utility,’ he said.
Catalina Garcia, who has participated in the conference entitled’ innovation in The service of environmental management organized by the ministry through the Network of Environmental Information of Andalusia, has assured that ‘it is precisely the REDIAM, with more than half a million visits, a million and a half of average annual that receives the Information Portal Environmental Andalusia, plays a critical role in this technological deployment, since, by using new digital tools and advanced projects, the Network serves the needs of businesses, researchers, students, and citizenship, approaching environmental data reliable and up to date to support the management, education and sustainable development’.
Among other services, has cited the Data Catalog and Environmental Services of Andalucia, ‘which provides fact sheets, from metadata, the environmental information available, including details such as summary, access links, dates, territorial scope, categories, constraints, and contacts.’ It has also been referred to the Geoportal, which has stated that ‘acts as a portal for spatial information, allowing access to maps, environmental, displays, graphics, web services, and download of data related with the environment in Andalusia and, in addition, there is a direct download of information and environmental data of the territory, providing access to various content areas’, or the Environmental Report in Andalusia (IMA), ‘which presents a complete diagnosis on the state of the environment in Andalusia, offering detailed information and accessible thanks to the use of new technologies’.
‘We are now working in a further step, especially qualitative -has affirmed the counselor-, with all the technology at our disposal and implementing applications that allow us to develop all of the available capacity to make more effective administrative procedures, for example, as is the case in the event of environmental authorizations, in processing aids forest, thanks to the viewer Forest Indicators Indifo, or in the accessibility of data that we have in the ministry, through the viewfinder of environmental information, the drilling for wells or of environmental quality, which are useful for professionals, business and, of course, citizens in general.’
In this context, has stated that the platform Aidea’who is driving from the department of Sustainability and Environment, in this line of modernization and digitalization, will make it possible to have access to accurate information and real-time variable environmental, social, agricultural and health, which will contribute to the planning and management of public policies.’ ‘It will offer technological solutions that allow you to face more efficiently complex challenges such as climate change, drought, urban planning and the improvement in health care’, he added.
In the opinion of Garcia, this platform, in development in the framework of the Innovation Fund from the Demand (FID), and funded by the Program Plurirregional of Spain ERDF 2021-2027, ‘is based on previous experiences with new ways of processing data, using big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and will consolidate as a strategic tool to transform the business andalusian linked to the spatial information, to facilitate the development of new applications with high added value’.
A database of high-capacity
The councilor of Sustainability has been stressed that, ‘with more than 4,500 published data sets in his catalog, and accessible to the public, and more than 2,000 services geographic data interoperable according to international standards, the REDIAM is configured as the largest regional network of environmental information in Europe and is a pioneering experience in your genre.’
In addition, he thanked the work of all those involved in the work of providing environmental information to the detail as it is currently comprised of a network of partners that included all the actors of the quadruple helix: the public authorities, the business sector, associations and the academic sector and researcher. ‘In total, more than 100 associated entities, what constitutes a full example of public-private partnership in which partners share information, knowledge, projects, and experience and good practices,’ he pointed out.
The REDIAM not only disseminates environmental information, which emanates from the powers of the department of Sustainability and Environment, but it also collects and disseminates all information related to the environment andalusian has been generated by any producer of information, whether public or private, making it available to all through a single window, the Portal Environmental Andalusia, and allowing the access to all the environmental information available about the community.
The data is published in multiple formats-thematic mapping, orthophotos, GIS packages, reports, statistics, publications, digital and even print – and are characterized with standardized metadata. In addition, it offers viewers an interactive intuitive that facilitate the query mapping from any device. All material is open access, open and is constantly updated -except the sensitive information protected species, which is restricted in order to preserve their conservation to the general public, businesses and educational institutions and scientists with environmental information ‘for quality, up-to-date and accessible.’
The conference, which was held in the Space Exploraterra Center la Nao Victoria, in Seville, has counted with the support, among other authorities, the Secretary-general of the Environment and Climate Change, María López Sanchís, the director-general of Environmental Sustainability and Circular Economy, Carmen Jiménez Parrado, the managing director of the Agency of Environment and Water of Andalusia, Javier Tower, and the delegates territorial Seville, Huelva and Jaen, Immaculate Gallardo, Pedro Yórquez and Maria Jose Lara, respectively, in addition to technical Counseling, AMAYA, the university community and representatives of companies in the sector of research, innovation and development.
