There is a growing awareness that the fight against climate change requires contribution and commitment of all concerned parties: local authorities, businesses, civil society, and citizens.
The Energy and Climate Forum meeting in Tangier, Morocco, on June 22 and 23 organized by MedCop was focused on exploring strategies to accelerate the energy transition in the Mediterranean.
The event will be attended by 22 countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, 100 speakers, and more than 500 people.
The forum is taking place in a particularly sensitive context, given the war in Ukraine, which threatens international economic stability. There is a growing awareness that the fight against climate change requires contribution and commitment of all concerned parties: local authorities, businesses, civil society, and citizens. All civil parties must be mobilized to ensure that our societies reduce carbon emissions and preserve the ecosystems, especially in areas that are already suffering from water scarcity, such as Morocco.
The goal of MedCop 2023 is to help coordinate and harmonize various concerned parties, state policies, strategies, and initiatives at the subnational, national, and global levels. Eight key areas have been identified: sustainable cities and territories, sustainable food systems, sustainable water management and the blue economy, energy transition, gender and climate, nature-based solutions, climate and human mobility, access to climate finance, and decentralized cooperation.
The support that the Mediterranean countries of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) can provide to the EU to achieve the decarbonization goals envisaged by the Green Deal is particularly relevant today. Indeed, the countries of the Southern Mediterranean could already become energy exporters in the nearest future.