27 August 2020, online. Vast additional public and private funds will be required to deliver the Paris Agreement and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Blended finance is emerging as an important financing solution to accelerate action, but it must be scaled-up. The webinar on ‘Blended finance for water and climate: when theory meets practice’ is takingRead more
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Read the stories of three local champions in the fight against climate change, in the framework of the UfM-supported project Clima-Med. 31 July 2020. Born and raised in Beirut, Marwan Kaiss is the Mayor of the Batloun Municipality in the Chouf area, 45km inland from Lebanon’s bustling capital city. Passionate about preparing Lebanon for theRead more
Member states of Union for the Mediterranean agreed to advance solutions to meet water-related socioeconomic challenges, promoting climate resilience, while assisting women and youth towards job creation during the Joint Water-Employment-Migration (WEM) and Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Task Forces Meeting of the UfM Water Agenda. 23 July 2020. The UfM Task Forces on Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus andRead more
24 July 2020, Split, Croatia. UfM Deputy Secretary General Grammenos Mastrojeni will participate in first Panel (Energy and Economic Crisis 2020) of the Mediterranean Energy Forum 2020 in Split, Croatia. The event will theme is Energy Security in the Mediterranean Region. Ivo Milatić, Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection, Republic of Croatia will open the conference. MoreRead more
23 July 2020 Online, 13.30-15.30 CET. The UfM Water Task Forces on Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus (4th Meeting) & Water-Employment-Migration (5th Meeting) will take place online on 23 July 2020. The Meeting is addressed to members of the UfM WEFE Nexus and WEM Task Forces as well as other stakeholder organisations. The Meeting will be co-chaired by Lebanon, ItalyRead more
21 July 2020. A technical webinar on Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in practice under the title Technical Solutions in the Mediterranean: Experience and Opportunities will take place online on 21 July at 13:30-15:00. The webinar is organised with the Global Water Partnership Mediterranean. The objectives of the Webinar are to share case studies and tangible examples of WEFERead more
The 2020 UfM Mediterranean Climate Week discussed, among other topics, the progress of international public and private climate finance flows and how to optimise their mobilisation. Under the current scenarios, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries per capita energy demand is estimated to increase by about 60% by 2040. These countries have attracted 9% of theRead more
UfM Regional Platform on Civil Protection Context and Objectives Policy framework Documentation Key dates Key partners Related news Context Disasters know no borders, and the challenges and risks they pose are often shared across nations. The Euro-Mediterranean region has increasingly experienced severe natural disasters, including over 1,800 forest fires reported in 2021 alone, which devastatedRead more
9 July 2020. The First Ad-hoc Senior official’s Meeting on Environment and Climate Change will take place online on 9 July 2020.Read more
