A Mediterranean Pavilion Event at UNFCCC CoP27
November 8th, 5.30 pm
- In person, if you are present in the Blue Zone of UNFCCC CoP27, or
- Online at http://mediterraneanpavilion.com/
Join us for an event aimed at explaining the need for a Mediterranean Pavilion at COP27. We will show the Mediterranean challenges, concluding that community can face them alone. Only if we join forces we can succeed, in a way that leads us to build peace and justice in the region. The speakers will draw up proposals for solutions, each from the point of view of the worlds they represent: economy, civil society, youth and think tanks.
The Mediterranean basin is the second most affected area by climate change, warming 20% faster than the global average. It faces its own challenges that can turn into regional instability. Indeed, the tragic consequences of climate change which we have also seen this summer in various Mediterranean countries, overlap with a dangerous socio-economic asymmetry and lack of integration across the region. Yet, the Mediterranean is also a cradle of solutions – public policies and private initiatives – that we can expand globally.
CoP27, hosted by a Mediterranean country, is timelier than ever in creating an important regional impetus in the fight against climate change. The UfM Secretariat is coordinating a coalition of twelve strategic partners to give a voice to the region, within the first Mediterranean Pavilion in the long history of climate negotiations.
This event aims to highlight the serious challenges we are facing, as well as share, and discuss and initiatives for climate action applied and planned in the region. Since positive change in the region requires a joint effort of all, the event gives a voice to a variety of stakeholders – public and private, scientific and academic, civil society, finance and business – committed to catalyzing a sustainable transition through innovation.
November 8, 2022, 5.30 pm
Moderator: Alessandro Macina, Rai 3 “Presa diretta”
Speakers:
– Grammenos Mastrojeni, Coordinator of the Mediterranean Pavilion
– Rym Ayadi, President of the Euro Mediterranean Economist Association
– Chiara Martinelli, director, Climate Action Network-Europe
– Young activist Elif Cansu İlhan, Greenpeace and Climate Action Network Turkey
– Luca Bergamaschi, CEO and founder of the ECCO Think Tank
