2023

The 4^th meeting of the Steering Committee for the CAMP project in Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered on 19^th December 2023 in Sarajevo at the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Trade...

The concluding event of the Transboundary CAMP Otranto project took place at the Maritim Hotel Plaza in Tirana on December 13, 2023, as a hybrid physical and online event. The conf...

Last week, two climate milestones concluded – The Summary for Policymakers of the MedECC Special Report on climate and environmental coastal risks in the Mediterranean has been end...

The project will end with the CAMP Otranto Final Conference at the Maritim Hotel Plaza in Tirana on 13 December 2023. People not able to attend in person can join via Zoom from 9 a...

Within the framework of Child Project 2.1. of the GEF MedProgramme, an online workshop was held on 28^th November 2023 regarding the preliminary analyses of land cover change for th...

On November 6, 2023, an "Information Day on the rationalization of the management of the Tunisian coastline through the implementation of the ICZM Protocol" was organized jointly b...

Organised by the IOC-UNESCO and co-organised by the African Union, the Nairobi Convention Secretariat, the Abidjan Convention Secretariat and PAP/RAC of UNEP/MAP, the 2^nd MSPforum ...

During the week of October 23 to 27, an Algerian delegation composed of representatives of the Ministry of the Environment and Renewable Energy, the Ministry of Fisheries and Fishe...

The 2024 edition of Mediterranean Coastal Day took place in Vlorë, Albania, on September 25, 2023 with to the support of the MedProgramme of the Global Environment Facility. The ce...

On September 25th, we come together to honour the beauty and vitality of the Mediterranean, raising awareness about pressing issues such as coastal urbanization, water scarcity, cl...

On 4 July 2023, the fourth stakeholder meeting on the development of the Coastal Management Plan for Boka Kotorska Bay was held in Tivat, Montenegro. The meeting was organised with...

The Integrated meeting of the Ecosystem Approach Correspondence Groups (CORMONs) took place on 27 and 28 June 2023 in Athens. This was the opportunity to discuss and endorse the co...

Jointly organised by the Union for the Mediterranean, PAP/RAC, UN-Habitat, IUCN, and in co-operation with DG NEAR, DG ENV, a Mediterranean wide workshop on legal-regulatory framewo...

The results of the Adriatic Adaptation Award Context as well as the CREATE project results were presented on June 14 in Venice, during the project Final Conference. Adriatic Adapta...

Save the Date: Join us in Venice (Italy) for the Final Conference of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project CREATE – “Climate Responses for the AdriaTic REGion” on June 14, 2023!

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On 21 May 2023, the last session of the in-depth training course on integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) was held in Tel Aviv, as one of the key capacity-building activities i...

A meeting of experts was held on 26-27 May within the framework of child project 2.1. of the GEF MedProgramme, regarding the preliminary analyses of the calculations of Land Cover ...

On May 25, 2023, a regional workshop on coastal legislation was organized in Split within the framework of child project 2.1. of the GEF MedProgramme. During this workshop, 5 exper...

On 23-24 May 2023, PAP/RAC hosted the Focal Points of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention to discuss the progress made in 2022-2023 and agree on the Programme of Wo...

Transboundary Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) were at the forefront of the CAMP Otranto Mid-Term Conference and training course hosted...

Climate change communication is an essential tool in addressing the urgent global challenge of climate change. By effectively communicating the science, impacts, and solutions, we ...

The Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) is one of the key EU documents which defines concrete measures for both climate mitigation and adaptation, with timeframes an...

On the 4th of April, representatives of three municipalities overlooking the Boka Kotorska Bay - Herceg Novi, Kotor and Tivat - met with PAP/RAC and Montenegrin Ministry of ecology...

On the 28th and 29^th of March 2023, in Marseilles (France), PAP/RAC organized a Meeting of the Ecosystem Approach Correspondence Group on Monitoring (CORMON) Coast and Hydrography....

The MSP4BIO project partners gathered for the 2^nd General Assembly meeting on the 20^th and 21^st of March at Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Ostend, Belgium.

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The final part of the IPCC VI Assessment Report was published on Monday. This final part is a Synthesis Report, which encompass three previously published reports in 2021 and 2022....

On  the 8th March 2023, PAP/RAC organised a third  stakeholder meeting on the preparation of the coastal plan for the  Moroccan region Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima (TTA), held in Tan...

Can one of the the worse economic and financial crises that the modern world has seen be an opportunity to address priorities while enabling the environmental security? The Second ...

A new semester with lectures on ICZM, MSP and climate change started yesterday (28 February 2023)) for the students of the Syrian Virtual University (SVU). It is related to the Mas...

Over the last decades, the environmental parameters of the Adriatic Sea have undergone significant changes as a result of multiple intense human activities and climate change impac...

PAP/RAC has successfully organized an online seminar on Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) that took place on the 15th of December 2022, and continued on the 22nd and 23rd of February 2...

On the 26^th of January 2023, Albania hosted a local workshop within the framework of CAMP Otranto Transboundary project, as an opportunity for stakeholders and local actors (includ...

With the aim to support capacity building, development of ICZM tools and promotion of good practices for sustainable development of coastal areas in Israel, the Ministry of Environ...

The Adriatic Region, being part of the Mediterranean, is among the most severely impacted systems by the effects of climate change. While facing an intensification of urbanisation ...

As an integrated process, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) aims to cope with the increasing demand for marine space and resources from traditional (e.g., maritime transport, tourism...

On 18 January 2023, a third stakeholder meeting on the preparation of the Coastal Management Plan for Boka Kotorska Bay, was held in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, in parallel with the t...

After presenting specific funding possibilities for climate action in Croatia & Italy and the importance of adaptation planning for coastal areas in relation to the impacts of clim...