Making Peace With Nature and Delivering on the SDGs in the Mediterranean

This event, which is organized within the framework of the Geneva Environment Network, will take place online on 8 April at 09:30 CEST.

The Mediterranean: a region at the crossroads

Two recent reports sponsored by the UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan – Barcelona Convention (UNEP/MAP) system — the State of the Environment and Development in the Mediterranean (SoED), produced by Plan Bleu, and the First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR 1) released by the network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) — shed new light on the hefty toll that the global triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution is taking on Mediterranean ecosystems.

According to the ‘twin reports’, the Mediterranean region is not on track to achieve the SDGs, confirming the urgency of a green renaissance in the post-COVID era. But a recent analysis of spending by the world’s leading economies, led by the University of Oxford and UNEP, concluded that only 18% of announced recovery spending can be considered green.

The panel discussion, which includes a Q&A session, will offer insights into the levers of transformative change that decision-makers can use to make peace with nature in the Mediterranean. As it prepares for the 22^nd Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP 22) (December 2021, Antalya, Turkey), UNEP/MAP will present examples of its work on setting the green renaissance in motion.

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