Since November 2024, the agreement between the University of Granada and the Regional Government has been terminated, prompting researchers and academics to collect signatures so that they can continue studying the effects of climate change on ecosystems.
The future of the Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory (OBSNEV) is in jeopardy. This is according to hundreds of researchers and scientists linked to this institution, created 20 years ago to study the effects of climate change on ecosystems in a unique area such as the mountains of Granada. Since November 2024, there has been no agreement regulating its operation, leaving its continuity up in the air and causing concern throughout the scientific community.
While the Andalusian Regional Government assures that it is working on the creation of a new framework for collaboration with the University of Granada (UGR), the other institution that makes up the OBSNEV, researchers are not hiding their concern. The agreement expired over a year ago and, according to them, this institutional paralysis places the observatory in a ‘critical situation’, despite the fact that the Regional Ministry of Sustainability has publicly cited it as an example of good practice and an international scientific benchmark.