Sustainability, Energy & Climate

Infrastructures, energy and digitalisation: pillars for the sustainable development of transport in the Western Mediterranean

Infrastructures, energy and digitalisation: pillars for the sustainable development of transport in the Western Mediterranean

This Policy Study by IEMed and CETMO aims at giving response to the challenges posed by climate change in the region and how the transport sector can counter it and adapt to it through digitalisation, the transformation and connection of transport wi...

 26 February 2024
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Sustainable tourism in the Mediterranean in the post-COVID situation

Conference by Maria Gavari Barbas, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Tourism (EIREST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and introduced by Laura Huici Sancho, associate professor in Public International Law and International Re...

 31 March 2022

Could the EU’s New Agenda for the Mediterranean Turn Climate Change from a “Threat Multiplier” into an “Opportunities Multiplier”?

This paper analyses the level of vulnerability of Mediterranean countries to climate risks and to detect climate warning-related impacts on security, and discusses the implementation of the New Agenda of the Mediterranean.

 29 March 2022

Building Climate Resilience in the Western Mediterranean: Water and Climate Change Adaptation Nexus

A space for dialogue to discuss ways to ensure water security by adapting to the impacts of climate change on water resources in the region.

 9 March 2022

L’économie bleue, un défi pour les pays du sud de la Méditerranée : le cas de l’Algérie

Comme d’autres pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, l’Algérie est un pays à fort potentiel de développement de l’économie bleue. Mais il ne peut être appliquée sans une base de connaissances ciblées et fiables.

 22 February 2022

Environmental Fiscal Reform in the MENA region. The Case of Egypt: Lessons and Challenges

It provides insights on the state of play of environmental fiscal reform in Egypt and formulates recommendations on ways to make the environmental tax reform more impactful in terms of reduction of the level of emissions, incentivisation of the use a...

 7 February 2022

The EU Green Deal. A new momentum for democratic governance in the MENA region?

Environmentally sound and socially just policies in countries beyond the EU will hardly materialise without improvements in the area of democratic governance.

 26 January 2022

Clima y refugiados

El cambio climático provocará desplazamientos forzosos. Sin embargo, hay que matizar el discurso catastrofista sobre las perspectivas de los movimientos migratorios internacionales.

 11 January 2022
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Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean is one of the main climate change hotspots in the world. Accelerated climate change effects have caused direct and already visible environmental challenges that, based on projections, are expected to worsen in the upcoming decades.

 13 December 2021

Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean

The purpose of gathering knowledge on the socioeconomic impact of climate change is to advise decision- makers on the difficult decisions to be taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a region facing severe threats that climate change only...

 26 November 2021

Med Dialogues+2030: Towards a new development path: a sustainable blue economy for a prosperous Mediterranean

Blue economies can play as the engine for the protection and restoration of the Mediterranean marine and coastal ecosystems, as well as on the fight against climate change.

 24 November 2021

Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean: Grasping the Scope of the Challenge

The Mediterranean remains one of the least protected regions in the world while its natural resources are under heavy pressure.

 22 November 2021

Israel, Jordan and UAE come closer on a new water-renewable deal brokered by the US. What does it mean for the EU?

The United Arab Emirates-brokered energy and water agreement between Israel and Jordan could pave the way for greater European Union (EU) involvement and support for regional integration on climate and water issues in the Middle Eas

 18 November 2021