Sustainability, Energy & Climate

Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Environmental Impacts and Extreme Events

Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Environmental Impacts and Extreme Events

Mediterranean climate change has been observed at a magnitude exceeding global means, despite the fact that the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in Mediterranean countries lies at relatively low levels.

 14 October 2020
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Abolishing the NHP’s Water Diversions. A Turning Point for Water Management in Spain

The ongoing debate in Spain about the National Hydrological Plan (NHP) has accelerated the crisis of the structuralist model, which has been the ruling model since the beginning of the twentieth century.

 20 September 2006

The Millennium Development Goals and the Mediterranean Region

Mediterranean countries’ involvement in the MDGs is extensive and varied. National MDG reports (NMDGRs) have been published in 13 Mediterranean countries, four of them in 2005.

 14 September 2006

GAP: A Grand Design for Sustainable Development

The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP, in Turkish acronym) is a regional development project aimed at full-fledged socio-economic development of the Upper Mesopotamia.

 6 September 2006

Kyoto in the Mediterranean: Climatic Risks, International Agreements and Economic Opportunities

On the 16th February 2005 the Kyoto Protocol came into effect, after seven years of finalizing negotiations and thirteen years after adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro.

 31 August 2006

The Millennium Development Goals in the Arab Region

The Arab countries have demonstrated progress in many of the MDGs. However, progress varies, across the sub-regions, at the country level, and from goal to goal.

 17 August 2006

The Great Challenges of Mediterranean Cities

On November 25th, 2005, the city of Barcelona organised a "Conference of Euro-Mediterranean Cities" within the framework of the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

 14 August 2006

The Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development: A Framework for Regional Partnership

Resulting from a three-year interactive preparatory process, the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) was finalized in 2005, at a very appropriate period.

 8 June 2006

Cooperación con el Magreb en turismo

Los proyectos de formación turística deberían acompañarse del desarrollo de infraestructuras para ofrecer un destino competitivo basado en la calidad de los servicios.

 21 March 2006

The Role of Gas in Mediterranean Integration

From an energy point of view, 2005 has been a very convulsive year. On an international level, fears that there may be an energy crisis equivalent to that of the seventies of the last century have increased.

 8 March 2006
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La Agricultura y la asociación Euromediterránea: Retos y oportunidades

Aquesta publicació recull les ponències del seminari « Le Maroc et l'Union Européenne » per proposar noves perspectives de treball en el marc de la posada en marxa d'un Estatut avançat per al Marroc.

 19 December 2005

The Urban Network as a Vertebral Element of the Euroregion of the Mediterranean Arc

In recent decades, Europe has experienced an important development in geo-economic axes. The territories that form the north western Mediterranean have been forming one of the principal axes of growth on the continent.

 20 June 2005

Environment and Development in the Mediterranean: a New Analysis of the Plan Blue

The Plan Bleu course of action, published in 1989, depicted the possible prospects of one of the richest regions of the world in terms of history and diversity but also one of the most vulnerable ones.

 11 May 2005