Sustainability, Energy & Climate

Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Context: State of the Play and Future Perspectives

The southern and eastern Mediterranean countries combined have a large fossil resource base, and there are several net fossil fuel exporters: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Syria.

Natural Gas Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities

The Eastern Mediterranean is on its way to becoming an important gas province. If developed in a timely and successful way, the region’s resources may significantly change the energy picture in the wider Mediterranean region.

Wheat in the Mediterranean Region: Societies, Trade and Strategies

In the Mediterranean Region, wheat plays an essential role in societies and their consumption patterns, in relations between the authorities and the population, and in the trade taking place in the region.

No habrá desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades sin agricultura urbana

La existencia de una práctica urbana de la agricultura muestra que las relaciones entre la urbanización y la agricultura no son contradictorias.

Environmental Cooperation in the Mediterraneanthe Long Distance from Words to Deeds

States and EU institutions have been eager to talk about the protection of the Mediterranean Sea. This resonates with the perception captured by the Survey that de-polluting the Mediterranean is an important objective for the region.

Liberalisation of Agriculture Trade and Food Security Cooperation

Certain evident geopolitical issues have been left on the sidelines in the Euro- Mediterranean debate since 1995. This is the case of agricultural exchange, life in rural areas and food security.

The Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in the Water Sector: Assessment of Progress and Emerging Perspectives

Today the great global challenges, such as environmental change or the depletion of natural resources, are turning into strategic issues and influencing international peace and security.

Energy Cooperation in the Mediterranean Sea

One-third of the respondents agreed that there was improving harmonization and integration of markets and legislation and approximately half saw progress in promoting sustainable development in the energy sector.

V Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum

This fifth edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum is planned with a view to consolidate the regional meeting between energy producing and consuming countries and companies.

Towards Ecologised Thought. Interview with Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin is one of the great living thinkers whose interdisciplinary method has acquired great importance given the new demands for understanding and action resulting from the problems that surround us.

“Unrealistic” Dreamers

The year 2011 has been especially difficult for Japan: the country has suffered an extremely serious earthquake followed by a nuclear accident.

L’efficacité énergétique dans le bâtiment en Méditerranée