Archives News July-August 2008


Expo Zaragoza 2008 : International Expo on Water and Sustainable development On 15th July 2008, Plan Bleu and the Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production participated jointly in a workshop organized by the Pavilion of Citizens’ initiatives (el faro) in the framework of the thematic week “Water uses and abuses”. For Plan Bleu, Gaëlle Thivet thus presented the situation of water resources and demands in the Mediterranean, including a prospective view and underlining the necessity to use water more rationally and efficiently, in the different using sectors. The RAC for Cleaner Production then presented examples of good water savings practices, concerning notably the industrial sector.

	Paris Summit for the Mediterranean On July 13rd 2008, Henri-Luc Thibault represented Plan Bleu at the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean. On this occasion, “The Blue Plan’s sustainable development outlook for the Mediterranean” were distributed to the participants.
This document reviews the main causes of the trends to 2025 for the region and informs about seven major stakes for development: water, energy, transport, urban areas, coastal areas and marine environment. It concludes with some tracks to make Mediterranean to become a space for sustainable development cooperation. The document can be downloaded in English, Arabic and French.

Regional workshop «Promote Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean » In 2007 Plan Bleu launched, in the framework of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD), a working programme relying on a series of national and regional studies. This programme aims, on the one hand, at assessing the tourism situation with regard to the MSSD in some riparian countries and, on the other hand at setting up a reflection frame regarding four major stakes linking tourism and sustainable development on the Mediterranean region scale. With a view to presenting the results issuing from these various studies, to discussing them and to drawing working tracks out of them for the near future, Plan Bleu organized on July, 2nd and 3rd 2008, in Sophia-Antipolis (France) a regional workshop. Gathering more than sixty participants, this workshop was a place for debates and discussions in so far as it enabled to compare the conclusions and viewpoints drawn from the national and regional studies with those of experts from different disciplines. <More...>

Signing of an agreement running over several years between the Principality of Monaco and Plan Bleu Patrick Van Klaveren, Permanent Representative to Scientific, Environmental and Humanitarian International Bodies, Principality of Monaco, and Henri-Luc Thibault, Director of Plan Bleu, signed on 2nd July, 2008, an agreement running over several years (2008-2011). This agreement defines the nature and the terms of the support the Principality of Monaco intends to grant to Plan Bleu over the period 2008-2011. The aid provided by the Principality of Monaco will complement, in particular, the works carried out by Plan Bleu, aiming at performing territorial prospective methods and tools and producing on a regular basis reports dealing with environment and sustainable development in the Mediterranean.

Signing of a financing agreement between AFD and Plan Bleu Jean-Pierre Barbier, Director for Mediterranean/Middle East at AFD (Agence Française de Développement) and Henri-Luc Thibault, Director of Plan Bleu, signed on 1st July, 2008 a financing agreement meant to support the programme of Plan Bleu activities such as described in its 2007-2015 Intervention framework. This help covers a period up to three years and follows the signing of an agreement protocol between AFD and Plan Bleu, signed on November 2007. It is part of the contribution of the AFD to a multidonors funding mechanism to support Plan Bleu activities and to which the AECID (the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) should also took part.

EIB/Plan Bleu’s study "Energy and climate change in the Mediterranean" A press conference was held on Tuesday 1st July in Paris upon of which Philippe de Fontaine Vive, Vice-President of EIB in charge of the Mediterranean, and Henri-Luc Thibault, Director of Plan Bleu presented the results of a study steered by Plan Bleu on « Energy and climate change in the Mediterranean » that is just published. <More...>

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