La pollution marine constitue une menace grave pour les environnements maritimes et côtiers de la Méditerranée. Environ 80 % de la pollution marine provient des terres ; la majorité étant composée de plastique et de micro-plastiques. L’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM), le Programme Interreg MED de l’UE, l’Université de Sienne et l’Institut Italien pour la protection etLire la suite
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Imaginons le sud de la Méditerranée demain… 245 millions de personnes vivant en zone urbaine. Un défi urbain de taille pour cette région du monde.L’Union pour la Méditerranée, l’Union européenne, l’Agence française de développement et la Banque européenne d’investissement, s’engagent pour réussir la transition vers des villes méditerranéennes durables. L’Initiative pour le Financement de ProjetsLire la suite
Kuala Lumpur, 10 February 2018. The UfM Secretariat held today in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), the UfM Networking Event: “Towards implementing the New Urban Agenda in the Euro-Mediterranean Region”, in the framework of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) in continued efforts to raise awareness about the UfM Urban Agenda (#UfMUrbanAgenda) with a view to ensuring aLire la suite
Sustainability is not an abstract concept in my home of Jordan. According to NASA, we in the eastern Mediterranean are facing possibly the worst drought in 900 years. Increases in the cost of water are affecting farming and hampering industrial development. Acidification of rain is polluting water resources, while the Dead Sea is divided inLire la suite
The Mediterranean Sea has been described as one of the areas most affected by marine litter in the world. Although the effects of plastic litter on the marine environment and marine organisms have been investigated recently in several oceanic areas, the information available on the Mediterranean Sea is poor. Despite the uncertainties and gaps inLire la suite
L’objectif principal de ce projet est de renforcer l’intégration d’Imbaba et des quartiers al-Warraq du gouvernorat de Gizeh en fournissant à cette zone densément peuplée (environ 2 millions d’habitants) les services, l’une des zones urbaines les plus peuplées et les moins aménagées d’Égypte.
Over the course of an initial 3-years period, the project will contribute majorly to find common approaches and planning tools to boost sustainable coastal and maritime tourism in the Mediterranean. It will be mainly carried out through the analysis and promotion of the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems in coastal areas, particularly or potentially devoted to tourism.
The Blue Economy is “the set of human activities depending on the sea and/or underpinned by land-sea interactions in the context of sustainable development, and notably including industrial and service sectors such as aquaculture, fisheries, blue biotechnologies, coastal and maritime tourism, shipping, ship-building/repair, ports, ocean energy and marine renewable energy, including offshore wind, which areLire la suite
Oceans, seas and marine and coastal resources represent an essential link between every region of the planet. In various ways, they affect the lives of people all over the globe as they are drivers and enablers of national and regional economies as well as a source of survival. The Mediterranean countries have engaged in makingLire la suite
Naples, Italy, 29-30 November 2017.- In 2015, the Ministers and other Heads of Delegations of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) adopted the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Blue Economy. To ensure appropriate governance structures, the UfM Forum on Blue Economy was established as a “…framework of dialogue on sustainable blue economy…” composed of various elements, among whichLire la suite
