Project Title
Enhancing regional climate change adaptation in the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas
Key Figures:
- Budget: USD 1.05 million (cofinance: 4.89 million)
- Executing Entity: Mediterranean Action Plan of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP/MAP)
- Fund: Special Climate Change Fund (GEF)
- Project Sites: Albania, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, Tunisia
- Timeframe: 2019-2023
Description:
The Mediterranean Sea region has been identified as a global climate change hotspot where increased temperatures, sea level rise and changes in rainfall patterns are affecting coastal ecosystems and the essential services they provide to people. These impacts, coupled with rapid urbanization and coastal development, water pollution, and deforestation make the Mediterranean region increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
Funded by the Global Environment Facility, a project is increasing the climate resilience of the marine and coastal areas in Albania, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, and Tunisia. It aims to achieve this by strengthening the capacities of these countries to implement ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and to access international climate financing with a view to influencing wider development processes. One of the main objectives is to mainstream climate adaptation measures into Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plans. The project is convening 200+ key stakeholders in 2 priority coastal areas to identify solutions for coastal resilience, while promoting knowledge exchange on adaptation planning.
The project is part of the larger USD 43.4 million GEF-funded Mediterranean Sea Programme: Enhancing Environmental Security (MedProgramme) that aims to reduce the major transboundary environmental stresses affecting the Mediterranean Sea and its coastal areas, while strengthening climate resilience and water security, and improving the health and livelihoods of coastal populations. The MedProgramme includes 7 child projects aiming to boost environmental security in the Mediterranean region.
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