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8 March 2023. To celebrate the International Women’s Day, the UfM seeks to recognise the paramount role of women in the water sector, and highlight the need to ensure that the women’s role is at the heart of the UfM priorities and in promoting initiatives supporting women in the Mediterranean region and beyond. Gender equality is key to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As “being off the track to achieve the SDGs by 2030” is a looming reality, the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) launched a Call for Action (CfA) to accelerate the achievement of gender equality… إقرأ المزيد

7 March 2023, Barcelona – UfM hosted on 7 March 2023 the webinar on the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF): Outcomes, follow up and way forward”, as a follow-up on the COP15 Biodiversity, which took place in December 2022 in Montreal as shared international roadmap to tackle the ecological crisis and towards a more nature-positive world. The webinar stressed the need to continue pooling technical, human and financial resources; ensuring coordination and converge efforts to reach the 30×30 target, which calls for 30% of the world’s terrestrial, inland water, and of coastal and marine areas, to be in effective protection… إقرأ المزيد

20-21 فبراير 2023، دبي- نظم الاتحاد من أجل المتوسط، بالاشتراك مع الوكالة الإسبانية للتعاون الانمائي الدولي AECID، جلسة هامة في إطار المؤتمر العربي للمياه، الجلسة التفاعلية الرابعة حول تحدي التفكير التصميمي (مختبر المستقبل). وخلال هذا الحدث، طرح المتحدثون أفكارًا جديدة ومبتكرة خارج الصندوق يمكن أن تساعد في جعل موارد المياه غير التقليدية في المنطقة أكثر جاذبية من الناحية المالية. نظم المجلس العربي للمياه، بدعم من جامعة الدول العربية والاتحاد من أجل المتوسط،  ​​مؤتمره للمياه الذي تناول هذا العام استخدام الموارد المائية غير التقليدية (NCWR) كحل استراتيجي واستكشاف ثروة من الفرص الجديدة وتحفيز الاستثمار. هناك إجماع حول حقيقة أن إدارة المياه… إقرأ المزيد

16-17 February 2023, Barcelona – The UfM Water Task Forces, Water, Environment, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus, Water Access, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Water, Employment and Migration (WEM) Nexus and Water Climate Change Actions (WCCA) meeting took place on 16 and 17 February 2023 in the Union for the Mediterranean premises in Barcelona. The meeting brought together the leaders of the task forces, strategic partners and UfM countries representatives as well as civil society in order to reflect on the Biannual Work Plans 2023-2024, and next steps towards meeting the objectives determined by the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Water (Malta, April 2017). It… إقرأ المزيد

UfM holds an official visit to new Member State, North Macedonia, to discuss regional environmental challenges and potential cooperation initiatives. 31 January 2023, Skopje. Following the entrance of the Republic of North Macedonia into the Union for the Mediterranean last November, UfM Deputy Secretary General in charge of Water, Environment and Blue Economy, Almotaz Abadi, paid an official visit to the new Member State to meet with the Minister of Environment and Physical Planning, Naser Nuredini and the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water, Abdylshyqr Abedini, in Skopje. The accession of the Balkan country comes at a moment of great need… إقرأ المزيد

24-25  يناير 2023 ، أثينا. عُقد أول اجتماع للجنة التوجيهية لخطة “بامكس” (PAMEX)، وهي خطة عمل من أجل بحر متوسط نموذجي بحلول عام 2030، خلال الفترة من 24-25 يناير 2023 في أثينا باليونان. وشارك في هذا الاجتماع  نائب الأمين العام للاتحاد من أجل المتوسط ​​المسؤول عن المياه والبيئة والاقتصاد الأزرق، المعتز عبادي، والخبيرة في الاتحاد من أجل المتوسط​​، ماري كلير بويلو. تابع الشركاء،خلال الاجتماع، الموقف التنفيذي للإجراءات الملموسة العشرين التي تشملها خطة بامكس، بما في ذلك مسائل الحوكمة وعمل مرفق تمويل الاستثمار المحلي (PLIFF)  الآلية المالية المبتكرة التي تم إنشاؤها لدعم تنفيذ مبادرة بامكس. كما استعرضت اللجنة التوجيهية المشروعات الجارية…. إقرأ المزيد

EU-UfM High Level Conference on strengthening water finance and investment policies under climate change takes place in Cairo (Egypt) as a prelude to COP-27. The EU and the Union for the Mediterranean are committed to supporting UfM countries in developing and strengthening their water investment and finance policies. There is a need to act on exploring, advancing and implementing the means of leveraging finances, developing and transferring technology and building capacities on national and regional levels. Cairo, 17 October 2022 – As water is the sector most heavily hit by climate change in the Mediterranean region, governments need to address some… إقرأ المزيد

19 September 2022 – The UfM Water Task Forces, Water Access, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Water Climate Change Actions (WCCA), took place during the IME’s Regional Symposium “Our Mediterranean: water challenges and regional priorities for 2050” on 19-20 September 2022 under a hybrid format from Valencia, Spain. Bringing together country representatives and regional stakeholders of the UfM region. Both meetings came as a result of the continuous endeavours of the UfM towards its Member states to help them bringing about decisive actions to meet their environmental challenges and tackle climate change in the Mediterranean. Moreover, they came following the UfM member states ‘request… إقرأ المزيد

27-28 June 2022, Lisbon The UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel attended the UN Ocean Summit where he showcased the work of the Union for the Mediterranean on the protection of the Mediterranean Sea and environment. The Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, comes at a critical time as the world is seeking to address many of the deep-rooted problems of our societies laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and which will require major structural transformations and common shared solutions that are anchored in the SDGs. The SG took the opportunity to meet with the recently appointed Minister of… إقرأ المزيد

22 June, 9:00 – 18:00h, World Trade Center, Barcelona – The UfM Blue Finance Conference took place on the 22nd of June, 2022, at World Trade Center in Barcelona.  The goal of the Conference was to encourage investments in- and funding of- Sustainable Blue Economy projects and initiatives in the Mediterranean region, especially in the Southern countries. We brought together financial institutions, banks (multilateral and national), private investors and UfM country and industry representatives to exchange information on funding, discuss criteria and viability of projects/initiatives and the enablers and conditions, which may help attract investments.  The Conference was structured around two main… إقرأ المزيد