Teresa Ribera It comes from the branch of law. He graduated in this skill in 1992 from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also has a diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid. She speaks English and French.

Daughter of a woman with a degree in Philosophy and from a reputed geriatrician; Ribera grew up in Madrid in the 70s, within a large family. A few years later, she has her own large family (three daughters) and is a candidate for the PSOE in the European elections. Her husband is Mariano Bacigalupo, advisor to the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC).

Little is known about his hobbies. But, from the content he publishes on social networks, it seems that it is more mountain than beach. Last summer he was touring the Pyrenees. “A great pleasure to have been able to enjoy a few days of the freshness of the valleys, rivers and lakes, the forests and beech forests, and the architectural and Romanesque treasures of the Arán Valley, Boí and Taüll and the Aigües Tortes National Park” , he shared on his account on the social network X.

But the mountain is your option to also disconnect from Madrid on the weekend. “Luxury Saturday! Morning getaway to the Sierra de #Guadarrama and walk from the port of #Navafria to #PuertoLinera through La Horizontal. #ParquesNacionales,” she published in July 2019. The candidate would also be known among her closest circle for her culinary skills, reports Vanity Fair.

From the Superior Body of Civil Administrators to the Executive

Beyond hiking and cooking, Ribera has published numerous popular articles about climate change. In fact, most of his career is linked to this fight. But his first steps were taken in the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State. She entered there when she was 27 years old. She also taught classes at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In the following years, she began to hold different responsibilities. In 2008 he was the director of the Spanish Office of Climate Change and in 2008 the Secretary of State for Climate Change.

In 2014 He resigned from the leadership of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and, four years later, Pedro Sanchez He chose her to preside over the Ministry of Ecological Transition. In 2020 she gave her greater weight within the Executive with the departure of Pablo Iglesias and she made her fourth vice president.

During his political period, Ribera has left his mark on the 2015 Paris Agreement and the organization of the COP25 in Madrid, after its cancellation in Chile. She was there, precisely, at the 2019 COP. In recent years, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition that she presides has promoted the national strategy for the wolf protection or the commitment to provide Mar Menor of legal personality for environmental protection, among others.

Ribera’s priorities for Europe

Teresa Ribera bet on achieving the strategic autonomy of Europe with the ecological transition. This point considers that we must be aware of “a reduction in demand for the import of fossil fuels” because “release resources that allow us to allocate them to innovation, requalification, quality in employment and productivity because they are less intensive in the consumption of these materials cousins”.

In this sense, Ribera urges the social dialogue so that the transformation processes. Likewise, he stressed that “the industry is called to decarbonize” while agriculture and other sectors face great climate challenges. Along the way, he pointed out the importance of serving the territories that were almost in a carbon “monoculture” regime, which requires “being there, working with the people and knowing what the aspirations are, the expectations, the way in which one understands what the future may be.