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Call for applications: 3rd Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards

22.03.2021

The call for applications for the third edition of the Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards is open until 15 April 2021. The Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards identify and mobilize key players involved in implementing projects to adapt to climate change from coastal, urban and rural territories across the Mediterranean. The aim is to reward exemplary and replicable practices in order to encourage other parts of the region to take action to adapt to the challenges presented by climate change.

The Mediterranean basin, with its 500 million inhabitants, is the second-most impacted area by climate change after the Arctic, as shown in the recent Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change report. Temperatures in this climate change hotspot are increasing faster than the global average, and major impacts are expected as soon as 2050. These include up to a 10 percent drop in the availability of freshwater and a decrease in food security due to a potential drop of up to 17 percent in crop yields and up to 20 percent in overfished marine life, as well as an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, and floods.

Cities and rural communities across the Mediterranean must therefore work to create stable social, economic and environmental conditions so that the region is better able to deal with the impact of extreme weather and events linked to climate change.

The third edition of the Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards is an opportunity to raise awareness of the urgent need to take action and the importance of working together to create inspiring and innovative solutions that can be used throughout the region. The call was launched by the French Agency for Ecological Transition, in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean and UNEP MAP Plan Bleu, in the frame of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement on 20 January.

Key competition dates
Competition start date: 20 January 2021
Competition end date: 15 April 2021
Award Ceremony: June 2021, during the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference in Brussels

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