Building the Mediterranean future together

Towards climate services in the context

of UNEP/MAP

H. Ravenel, N. Rousset

CLIM RUN Third Governing Board

Roma, 8-10 July 2013

Building the Mediterranean future together

1. UNEP/MAP AND THE MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2. PROJECT ON CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND ICZM (UNEP/MAP)

3. THE PRESANORD/MEDCOF PROCESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GFCS

UNEP/MAP and the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

An institutional and legal framework for sustainable development in the Mediterranean

-1975 : Barcelona Convention,

Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) creation

Plan Bleu : 1 the 5 Regional Activity Centre of the MAP

-2005 : Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD)

-2015? : Revised MSSD

UNEP/MAP and the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

The Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development 1.0 :

Priority fields of action

1. Better management of water resources and demand;

2. improved rational use of energy, increased renewable energy use and mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.

3. Sustainable mobility through appropriate transport management;

4. Sustainable tourism as a leading economic sector;

5. Sustainable agriculture and rural development;

6. Sustainable urban development; and

7. Sustainable management of the sea, coastal areas and marine resources.

Approach mostly sectoral,

Monitoring with indicators of environment degradation or of use of

natural ressources

UNEP/MAP and the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

Directions for MSSD revision (MSSD 2.0)

4 transversal axes :

- Aïchi objectives, good environmental status (EcAp)

- ICZM

- Green Economy, sustainable consumption and production

- Adaptation to Climate Change

More action-oriented than MSSD 1.0 : data, products, tools to support action

Adaptation to climate change axe would be based on the existing Regional

Adaptation Framework drafted for the Mediterranean Comission on Sustainable

Development (MCSD) of the UNEP/MAP in 2011

UNEP/MAP and the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

Climate services in the context of the revised MSSD

Adaptation to climate change as one of the transversal axes + action-oriented SMDD

Climate services might be one major tool to support decision-making and

participate to the implementation of the revised MSSD

Moreover, climate information systems have also been already identified

as a priority for action by the draft Regional Adaptation Framework of UNEP/MAP

Initiative that would reinforce progress regarding the GFCS initiated by

the WMO in the Mediterranean region

UNEP/MAP project on climate variability and change and ICZM

« Integration of climate variability and change into national

strategies to implement ICZM Protocol » (UNEP/MAP project, co-

financed by the GEF)

Main objectives :

-Create a platform of climate related information for coastal areas

- identification of existing climate data/products/information in countries, centralizing data on the Med-CCRISP platform, capacity-building of countries to help them to update data on a regular basis

-This climate information platform is intended to support the elaboration of ICZM

local plan, and then ICZM national strategies

This project show the strong interest and the active support of the

UNEP/MAP in the development of climate information system to promote

adaptation to climate change, here in the ICZM protocol context, one of the most

proeminent area of work of the UNEP/MAP

The PRESANORD/MedCOF process in the context of the GFCS

PRESANORD/MedCOF : Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum

(WMO)

- Main objective : operational generation of seasonal forecasts for the

Mediterranean region to support adaptation to climate variability and change of

socio-economic sectors-To promote GFCS approach, Plan Bleu has

pushed to involve team of users from

socioeconomic sectors in these forum

- Organization of back to back workshop involving

sectoral stakeholders, meteo/climatic community

and insurance representatives + participation at

the Forum

- PRESANORD3/MedCOF2, Tunis 2012 :

Tourism

- PRESANORD4/MedCOF3, Cairo 2013 :

Coastal cities

Thank you for your attention

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