Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken:
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
What challenges have you encountered in implementing this Resolution and what measures have you taken to overcome them?:
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.
