Time & Location
18 nov 2024, 09:00 – 10:00
Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan
About the event
Political borders and unions offer unparalleled opportunities for robust, systemic climate policy. The EU Green Deal, a suite of ambitious, largely binding, climate legislation is a prime example of this. However, they also artificially restrict the field of cooperation to within specific territories, a risky limitation in the face of notoriously cross-border climate impacts. The Mediterranean region is unique in on the one hand historically emerging from a rich shared history, and on the other hand today facing stark border divisions and conflicts within and between its sub-regions. In light of this, we see the need for system-wide disruption of climate governance in the Mediterranean to harness collective knowledge, better govern resources, and foster greater equity.
The Mediterranean region needs localised innovation to tackle the climate and natural resource crises and best build resilient communities. Scientific, educational, and governance cooperation can foster radical solutions that offer collective resilience and wellbeing to meet its unique environmental challenges and opportunities.
In this session speakers will draw on their extensive experience with research, climate governance, and cooperation organisations to tackle the practicalities of collaborative governance for shared scarce natural resources, collective climate and development issues, and systemic intersections with geopolitics in the Mediterranean region.
Coming from higher education, global financing, energy, and agriculture, the experts will offer insight into innovative mechanisms to address these challenges. Crucially, this is designed not to be a standard plenary, but rather an interactive session in which the experts and audience engage with each other to discuss on-the-ground realities of, and innovative solutions for, Mediterranean climate and natural resource cooperation. Unlike standard question-and-answer sessions that come at the end of a panel, our proposal involves dedicated exchange with the audience at two stages in the session, to allow a) dedicated audience input tied to specific issues, and b) the panel experts to draw on and engage with audience input as the conversation progresses, rather than risking them remaining unaddressed at the end.
Specifically, the experts will present, discuss, and gather feedback on the new Mediterranean Association for Environment and Resource Economists (MEDAERE), building bottom-up input to best harness the opportunity of learning from the diverse needs and experiences that will be present at the UNGIH pavilion.
Chair: Simone Borghesi, FSR Climate (EUI), University of Siena, and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Panellists:
Shouro Dasgupta, Researcher, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and Lecturer at Ca’Foscari Venezia
Aldo Ravazzi, Chief Economist DG Sustainable Development, EU & International Relations, Italian Ministry of Environment
Raja Chakir, French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and Paris Saclay Applied Economics, INRAE-AgroParisTech
Sevil Acar Aytekin, Professor, Boğaziçi University, Turkey