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WCC 2020 Res 031 - Activity Report

Information générale
Constituant de l’UICN: 
Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Type de Constituant de l’UICN: 
IUCN Secretariat
Période d’activité: 
2023
Zone géographique: 
Mer Méditerranée
Pays/Territoire: 
France
Italy
Morocco
Spain
Tunisia
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
Quels autres Membres de l’UICN sont impliqués –ou ont été impliqués- dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution ?: 
Tour du Valat / France
Le Secrétariat de l’UICN, est-il impliqué dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution ?: 
Yes
Veuillez indiquer quels autres acteurs (non-membres de l’UICN) sont impliqués dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
Conservatoire du Littoral, MedWet, Initiative PIM, AIFM, Spanish and French National Committee of IUCN
Implémentation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Education/Communication/Sensibilisation- Publication on Nature-based solutions to combat natural coastal risks in France with 4 projects in the Mediterranean: https://uicn.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sfn-littoraux-web.pdf - Publication on Nature-based solutions to fight against gravity and fire risks in France including 3 projects in the Mediterranean: https://uicn.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sfn-foret-web.pdf - Presentation of Nature-based Solutions at Monaco Ocean Week with the Tour du Valat, IUCN-Med and the Ocean & Climate Platform: https://uicn.fr/les-solutions-fondees-sur-la-nature-a-la-monaco-ocean-week/ Completed
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesMedCOP Climate 2023, a Mediterranean event ahead of COP28 UNFCCC, held in June 2023 in Tangier around 8 themes, one devoted to NbS, led by Tour du Valat and IUCN-Med. Two sessions bringing together decision-makers, community representatives, donors and representatives of CSO provided various insights and insisted on the strong potential of NBS to respond to societal challenges in the Med. In particular: CC cannot be separated from that of biodiversity. These 2 crises are intimately linked and feed into each other: CC is becoming a major factor in the erosion of biodiversity; the destruction of ecosystems reduces our ability to limit greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to CC; In this context, NbS offer a framework to simultaneously address climate and biodiversity. They contribute to adaptation and mitigation. They are all the more effective when they are developed by involving local communities and on a fairly large territorial scale; NBS are generally inexpensive, but their low return on investment requires the development of specific financial tools, which are not yet operational; There is a strong risk of considering everything as NbS, of seeing purely cosmetic or purely utilitarian “pseudo-NbS”; It is imperative to convince other sectors (energy, development, finance, etc.) of the relevance of NBS, which are still not high on the climate agenda!; The Barcelona Convention provides an appropriate framework to promote NBS politically and through the implementation of projects in the Med; Innovative initiatives are emerging, such as the Mediterranean Consortium for Biodiversity, which brings together varied and recognized expertise to implement "trans-biome" NBS at the landscape scale; NbS projects are multiplying in the Med by mobilizing local actors in various contexts: coastal towns threatened by sea level rise, forests, wetlands, islands, coastline, marine environment; Finally, the “High Level Champion” of COP28, Razan Al Mubarak, placed nature as priority N°1. Completed
Veuillez indiquer quels ont été les résultats obtenus dans le cadre des activités entreprises pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
The RESCOM project has been developed since the Marseille Congress and has just been launched. This project aims to strengthen the social and environmental resilience of vulnerable natural areas in the Mediterranean, through the implementation of Nature-based Solutions and an integrated approach at the scale of coastal territories in which we find several of the most fragile ecosystems, too often treated in “silos” (sea, coasts, forests, small islands and wetlands). The project thus aims to conserve, restore and improve ecological functioning and the services provided by these ecosystems, by supporting and involving national and local actors as well as local populations through awareness-raising activities, training, technical assistance. It combines regional activities and very concrete actions on five pilot sites located in Albania, Morocco, Montenegro, Tunisia and Turkey. Funded by the French Global Environment Facility and the MAVA Foundation for a period of four years, it is implemented by the Mediterranean Consortium for Biodiversity (CMB), bringing together five organizations (MedWet, Initiative PIM, AIFM, Tour du Valat and IUCN-Med), in partnership with the
Quelles mesures ont été prises afin de surmonter ces obstacles ?: 
So far the acceptation of the contents of the resolution has been very positive for the MED COP Climate Change (private and public sectors). Nonetheless an important effort should be done on the field to test the validity of the conservation activities framed as NbS in the Mediterranean region. Lack of important examples/case studies of NbS.
Veuillez indiquer et décrire brièvement les activités planifiées par la suite pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
Activité FutureDescription
FormationImprove capacity building for public and private actors
Activit�s de terrainPromote field activities in order to demonstrate the effectiveness and the validity of NbS in the Mediterranean region.
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesWork together with publics administration and private sector in order to incorporate the NbS concept into their business plans.