13 December, Madrid. The UfM region is performing well in attracting international public climate finance. Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries have attracted between 12% and 13% of the global international public climate finance commitments each year. However, despite this positive performance, the UfM region still has a margin of progress, as investments in adaptation are only representing approximatively one-third of mitigation commitments. The UfM presented the true-to-life steps to accomplish climate actions, from initiating policies to enhancing climate finance access and action implementation in the margins of the UN conference COP25 in Madrid. Quote by Mr. Mokhtar Hammami, Minister of… Lire la suite
Cyprus lies at the meeting point of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa, areas where climate change is expected to take a heavy toll in the coming decades 12 December 2019, Madrid. The Mediterranean region is getting warmer and drier at a faster rate than the global average. In the margins of the UN Conference COP25 in Madrid, the UfM co-organised a side-event with the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment of Cyprus to gather scientists and decisionmakers to evaluate the current state and risks related to climate and environmental change. Quote from Grammenos Mastrojeni, Deputy Secretary… Lire la suite
Le Secrétaire général de l’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM), Nasser Kamel, et le Directeur exécutif des Régions de l’action pour le climat (R20), Christophe Nuttall, ont signé un accord de partenariat visant à promouvoir les opportunités de financement du climat, notamment au niveau des autorités régionales et locales ; et pour les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME), avec l’aide de financements privés mobilisés par le biais de financements publics. Paris, le 24 octobre 2019. Le Secrétaire Général de l’UpM, Nasser Kamel, a rencontré aujourd’hui le Directeur exécutif de R20, Christophe Nuttall, à l’occasion du Sommet One Planet consacré à « L’augmentation du financement… Lire la suite
On estime que la demande d’énergie augmentera de 62 % dans les pays du Sud et de l’Est de la Méditerranée d’ici 2040. Présenté comme une pratique exemplaire dans la région, le projet de parc éolien de Tafila soutenu par l’UpM, alimente 83 000 foyers, représente près de 25 % de l’énergie jordanienne produite à partir de sources renouvelables et symbolise un bon exemple d’implication des autorités locales pour bénéficier des nouvelles énergies renouvelables. Lisbonne, 18 juillet 2019. L’UpM organise aujourd’hui à Lisbonne, en partenariat avec le ministère portugais de l’Environnement et de la Transition énergétique et l’Agence portugaise de… Lire la suite
The UfM Gas Platform Conference: The Role of Liquefied Natural Gas in the Mediterranean Gas Security
Paris, 13 June 2019. The UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel has participated in the UfM Gas Platform Conference held today in Paris. The conference has tackled the key Role of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) in the Mediterranean Gas Security and has gathered high-level speakers including the Minister of Petroleum of Egypt and the Director-General for Energy of the European Commission, as well as the Director-General of OME (Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie) which ensures the secretariat of the UfM Gas Platform. The Mediterranean region is home to an increasing population of over 500 million people with growing energy demand. Indeed, a 62% increase… Lire la suite
9-11 April 2019, Barcelona. The UfM Climate Week has taken place in Barcelona gathering a wide range of actors (UfM members’ representatives, civil society, IFIs, scientific experts…). During last week, several climate-related meetings were organised at the premises of the UfM Secretariat to discuss the impacts of climate change on agriculture, the state of climate finance in the region regarding water, renewables and other specific sectors, a scientific meeting to assess on the risks of climate change and it was as well the occasion to host the third General Assembly meeting of the Mediterranean Youth Climate Network (MYCN). The seventh meeting… Lire la suite
8 April 2019, Algiers. The UfM, represented by the Senior Deputy Secretary General for Energy, Jorge Borrego, and Senior Expert Fawzi Dib, participated in Algiers in the first thematic forum leading to the Summit of the Two Shores (S2R) to be held in Marseille next June, as convened by the French President Emmanuel Macron last summer. This thematic forum was held on the 8 of April and focused on energy, with emphasis on energy transition, renewable energy and energy efficiency, electric interconnections, conventional energy sources, and the digitalization of the energy sector. Civil society representatives contributed to debates by proposing… Lire la suite
29-30 January 2019, Barcelona. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean hosted this past 29 and 30 January the annual meeting of the UfM Energy Platforms in Barcelona, Spain. The UfM Energy Platforms are the only existing dialogue forum gathering all Euro-Mediterranean countries as well as the key stakeholders dealing with electricity markets, renewable energy, energy efficiency and gas in the Mediterranean region. The Observatoire Mediterranén de l’Energie presented the recently published the “Mediterranean Energy Perspectives 2018” that shows the current energy trends in the region, forecasting potential 2040 scenarios. Per capita energy demand in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean… Lire la suite
Le Secrétariat de l’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM), participe activement à la COP24 en Pologne, où il présente deux études sur l’impact du changement climatique et sur l’état de la situation en matière de financement climatique dans la région. Sans mesures d’atténuation supplémentaires, l’augmentation de la température régionale sera de 2,2 °C en 2040, pouvant dépasser les 3,8 °C dans certaines régions en 2100. Les précipitations estivales diminueront de 10 à 30% selon les régions. Les régions du Sud et de l’Est de la Méditerranée ont reçu 13% des fonds mondiaux alloués à l’action pour le climat. Katowice, 11 décembre… Lire la suite
Skhirat, 19 Novembre 2018. The UfM Secretariat and the Energy Federation of Morocco (Fédération de l’Energie) co-organized last Monday, 19 November, the 14th Energy Conference in Skhirat, under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King Mohamed VI, to promote regional dialogue towards a sustainable energy transition in the Mediterranean region. Such joint effort comes in line with the UfM mandate on energy and the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the UfMS and the Energy Federation of Morocco in 2017 to foster inter-institutional cooperation and promote regional dialogue. The 14th Energy Conference titled “Energy Transition: What Regional Geostrategy on the Horizon… Lire la suite
