7-18 November 2022. The 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. COP 27 was originally expected to take place from 8-20 November 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, COP 26 was rescheduled from November 2020 to November 2021. As a result, COP 27 will takeRead more
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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 onRead more
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 UfMRead more
17-18 October 2022, Cairo, Egypt. The High-Level Conference “Strengthening Water Finance and Investment Policies to Address the Climate Emergency in the Mediterranean Region — A Pre-COP 27 Event” will take place under a hybrid format from Cairo (Egypt) on 17-18 October 2022 in the framework of the 2022 Cairo Water Week. The High-Level Conference isRead more
19 September 2022, Valencia, Spain. UfM Water Task Forces, Water Access, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Water Climate Change Actions (WCCA), will be held on 19 September 2022, from 10:45 to 12:00 and from 12:00 to 13:30 hours (CEST), under a hybrid format from Valencia, Spain. Achieving water security is a major challenge in theRead more
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – 6 to 18 November 2022 – For the first time in COP’s history, the 27th edition will host a Mediterranean Pavilion. The initiative is conceived to highlight both the urgent challenges the region is currently facing, and the innovative solutions already being developed throughout the Mediterranean, raising awareness on a region overlookedRead more
28 June, Katowice (Poland), the event will take place in Katowice on 28th June 2022 and will be organised in co-operation with the Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Region project (meetMED II) and the Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) on the margins of the 11 edition of the World Urban Forum TheRead more
27-29 June, Brussels. In the run-up to the 7th European Civil Protection Forum (28-29 June 2022), a series of warm up sessions were organized around the main policy axes of the Forum. ‘Europe and the World: The Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) as a regional cooperation model´ (27 June) is the fourth and last warm-up session. It will takeRead more
9-10 June 2022 – UfM is supporting the organization of a MedECC authors’ meeting at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. The overall objective of the meeting is to progress on the production of the three Special Reports on the Mediterranean that are being prepared during the period 2022-2023, namely on (i) coastal risks, (ii) climate-water-food-energy-ecosystemsRead more
