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Juan Verde Suárez (Telde, Gran Canaria, 1971), will attend the Adeje Summer University during the week of July 26.

He is a Canary Islander who has reached the highest position in American politics, after being appointed by Barack Obama as his right hand man for relations with the European Union (EU).
An expert on political and business strategy, founder of the Spanish branch of the Climate Change project, led by former Vice President Al Gore, he will participate as a speaker in the course "A goal for 2020: towards a real protection of biodiversity?" directed by Miguel Castroviejo Bolíbar, forester and chief coordinator of the Environment in the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU.
Suarez will appear together with Huygen be Miguel Aymerich De-Pointes. Deputy Director General Deputy Environmental Assessment Ministry of Environment and Rural Marino; Sebastian Winkler, an environmental economist of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), Castilla Carlos Gutiérrez. Professor of Applied Economics at the University of La Laguna, Pedro Luis Pérez de Paz, professor in marine biology from the University of La Laguna, Victor M. García Díaz. Degree in Biology. Head of Environment Unit of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Claudia Olazábal, European Commission, Bonnet and Jorge Fernández-Trujillo, president of the Canarian Agency for Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
The course aims to make it clear that the Earth is everyone's home and only borrowed for future generations; it has a limited capacity to generate resources for our island development.
It hopes to plant the seed of ideas into students of how to contribute personally and professionally in the protection of our environment and a sustainable and equitable human development based on a production system that harmonizes the conservation of biodiversity with rational use and exploitation.
It will culminate on the focus of the present and future ideal scenario for biiodiversity in our archipelago, which has Europes greatest richness of species and paradigmatic examples where environmental problems are taking on a larger dimension, and as an island eco-system, is especially fragile, already suffering from the pressure human activity puts on it.
A very specific programme has been put together by national and international professionals with proven expertise in their field, which will address the challenges that biodiversity will face in the present decade, both in regard to its protection down to a detailed analysis of the crucial role the Canaries biodiversity plays, at the level of species (wild and cultivated), and ecosystems, both on land and in the sea, giving a vision of the future that awaits the islands, relating to the new landscape which will be created by the inexorable reality of Climate change.

All this must be addressed in this decade, within the framework of the European objectives 2020.