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The Committee on Energy, Environment and Water of the Parliamentary Assembly of the

Union for the Mediterranean:

1. Recognises the citizens’ call to protect conserve and restore biodiversity, the landscape and

oceans, eliminate pollution, and to foster knowledge, awareness, education, and dialogues on

environment, climate change, resource and energy use and efficiency, and sustainability1

within planetary boundaries.

2. Encourages coordinated action on the Committee’s matters by all states by building

partnerships and alliances with states, institutions, research institutes and economic actors in

the Mediterranean region as a way to improve knowledge, fair trade and quality of life.

3. Underlines that the global community must endeavour to continuously increase mitigation

efforts, to stay in line with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree target, as duly emphasised by the

United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently at the UN

27th Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh and in the UN Biodiversity

Conference (COP15) Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and recognises the

severe impact that climate change is having on the Mediterranean area. Calls on the region’s

parliaments and countries to continue to cooperate, implement ambitious climate policies and

keep up the efforts to raise awareness so that the world’s biggest polluters also take on more

ambitious targets and responsibilities regarding emissions reduction.

4. Recognises the serious challenges regarding water management, particularly in the

Mediterranean area, which is highly affected by desertification, and highlights that desalination

1 Conference on the Future of Europe – Report on the Final Outcome, May 2022, Proposal 2 (1, 4, 5) p. 44,

Proposal 6 (6) p. 48.

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