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12-13 November, Barcelona, Spain. As mandated by the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Environment and Climate Change (Athens, 2014), the Second Meeting of the Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (WGECC) will take place on 12-13 November 2018. The Working Group is mandated to meet regularly, at least every two years, and where appropriate inRead more
5-6 July 2018, Songdo, Republic of Korea. The Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) provides a platform for a wide range of stakeholders from governments, climate funds, financial institutions, civil society, think tanks and the private sector to discuss a topic of interest in climate finance and promote linkages and coherence in theRead more
5 and 6 July 2018, Songdo (Korea). The UNFCCC 2018 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance will take place in Songdo, Republic of Korea, on 5 and 6 July. The topic this year will be “The Climate Finance Architecture: Enhancing collaboration, seizing opportunities”. For the 2018 Forum, the SCF has selected the topic ofRead more
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23-25 April 2018, Barcelona. The Mediterranean region is one of the world’s climate change hotspots where the rise of temperature by 1.5°C, compared to pre-industrial levels, the lower limit not to be surpassed as agreed through the Paris Agreement, is at risk of being exceeded in the coming years. The UfM Climate Week taking place these daysRead more
23-25 April 2018, Barcelona. The UfM Climate Week will be the occasion to gather a wide range of actors (UfM members’ representatives, youth, IFIs, scientific experts…) around different topics, all related to climate action in the Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean region is one of the world’s climate change hotspots where the rise of temperature by 1.5°CRead more
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•The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) actively participated in the COP23, in Bonn, where it presented a study on the situation of climate finance in the region.
•The study reveals that the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region has, during the last years, received an annual amount of around USD 7 billion in climate financing. The majority of this sum is used for climate mitigation projects.
On the threshold of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) to be held this year in Bonn in Germany, euro-mediterranean youth took the lead of gathering 80 volunteers from both shores of the Mediterranean who made a trip from Marrakech to Bonn in 20 electric vehicles in order to raise awareness about climate change and how to travel sustainably.
