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Introducing and implementing the Nexus approach in the Mediterranean
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Dimitris Faloutsos Head, South East Europe Team leader TWRM, Nexus
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- food security - demand for energy is increasing with improvement of life standards
The Nexus: Its high relevance in the Mediterranean
- The “Arab Spring” was triggered by increasing poverty including food prices
- Climate change related implications
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The hydropower demployment and planned potential is big, and challenging, particularly in a transboundary context
Aims - Water-food-energy security and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems towards sustainable growth. - Sustainable management of the Mediterranean large marine ecosystem.
Objectives - Introduce the Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems Nexus (WEFEN)
approach and catalyse action for its adoption. - Catalyse the policy process at national level as well as at transboundary basin
level for the implementation of the WEFEN. - Attract investments (development banks)
Regional Mediterranean Programme on Nexus
• Introduce the Nexus approach. • Explain the available Nexus approach tools and their usage. • Identify the interlinkages among the Nexus sectors and the resulting
trade-offs and benefits (include the views and knowledge of all stakeholder groups).
• Highlight the cost due to the lack of, and the opportunities arising from, integration.
• Facilitate the identification of necessary actions to address issues. • Facilitate the planning of necessary actions/investements.
Regional Mediterranean Programme on Nexus
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Use: - UNECE Water Convention - UNECE Nexus assessment methodology
- Science by KTH - Science and approaches used by EC Joint Research Center
SEE 2020 StrategyJobs and Prosperity in a European Perspective’
Regional Programme - Nexus
Regional Programme Nexus
Content
- Define the developmental priorities that are related to water, food and energy;
- Identify trade-offs among these sectors as well as among the riparian countries that hamper water and/or energy and/or food security as well as the developmental potentials;
- Identify potential benefits to be shared among sectors as well as among countries;
- Define the steps to be followed at transboundary level (basins) as means to address trade-offs, unsustainable practices and externalities, and enable benefit sharing.
Strategy/Roadmap
• Capacity Building workshops
• Pilot Activities to demonstrate tangible practices and technologies for the implementation of Nexus approach.
• Priority Interventions identified through the Nexus Dialogues and Concept Notes or Project Documents to facilitate their financing.
• German Ministry of Environment (100 k Euros) • Austrian Development Agency: final discussions for support
~2 million Euros
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Workshop of MPs, Media and Stakeholders on CCA in Med Coastal
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• Sida financing ~ 700 k USD • Policy Framework - Union for the Mediterranean - Barcelona Convention / UNEP MAP
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A MENA Water-Energy-Food Nexus Programme
- A multi-stakeholder Nexus policy dialogue in the MENA First activities: annual Med conferences - TA for preparation of Nexus projects, including private sector engagement.
First activities: preparation of 2 regional projects.
- TA for Nexus institutional setting / policy making at national and transboundary level. First activity: North Western Sahara Aquifer System (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia)
Workshop of MPs, Media and Stakeholders on CCA in Med Coastal
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Workshop of MPs, Media and Stakeholders on CCA in Med Coastal
November 2015 5 www.gwpmed.org
• Aim
Facilitate the sustainable management of the North-West Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS).
Workshop of MPs, Media and Stakeholders on CCA in Med Coastal
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• Aim
• Objective
Facilitate the sustainable management of the North-West Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS).
Enhance the policy-related process and facilitate the establishment of cooperation arrangements that will enable the management of the NWSAS at the transboundary level.
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مع خالص شكري وامتناني
Thank you for your kind attention
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