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Dear Colleagues !We are happy to present you the first issue of the newsletter of the network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC). MedECC's objective is to gather, update and consolidate the best scientific knowledge about climate and environmental changes in the Mediterranean basin and render it accessible to policy-makers, key stakeholders and citizens. Our newsletter will be distributed on a quarterly basis. In the first part you will find the information concerning MedECC's activities and the second part will de dedicated to scientific news and publications ("scientific watch"). Good reading and evidently, we are open to any suggestions concerning both the contents and the form of our newsletter. MedECC Coordinators, Wolfgang Cramer and Joel Guiot
MedECC Science Officer, Kasia Marini |
The MedECC First Assessment Report (MAR1) will be the main product of MedECC during the current phase. The outline exists, all chapters have appointed Coordinating Lead Authors (CLAs), constituting a high-powered team of 16 experts from 13 countries. We are in the process of appointing Lead Authors for all chapters. We are confident to achieve this in September 2018. The CLAs …Read more. |
Forthcoming IPCC Report on “Global Warming of 1.5 °C”The approval of the IPCC Report on “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” is planned during the IPCC Plenary Session in Korea, 1-5 October 2018. There is a large number of references to Mediterranean issues. In particular there is a “box” titled “Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East droughts”, the work for which has been coordinated by Joel Guiot, MedECC Coordinator. Read more |
The Plan Bleu 2019 Report on the State of the Environment and Development (SoED 2019)Following an invitation by Plan Bleu (UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Center), MedECC have committed to contribute to their forthcoming Report on the State of the Environment and Development (SoED2019). Specifically, MedECC will coordinate a chapter on climate change and also contribute to selected sections of other chapters. Plan Bleu has a permanent mandate from UNEP/MAP to publish periodic assessment for informed police making and the SoED 2019 is a major output of the UNEP/MAP 2016-2021 Mid-Term Strategy. This report has a similar calendar to the MedECC report, with the adoption of the SoED 2019 planned for the end of 2019 during the Barcelona Convention Conference of Parties. MedECC and Plan Bleu collaborate closely, so that the two reports are complementary and coordinated. Read more |
Work towards the IPCC Sixth Assessment ReportDuring the scoping of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, a proposal, made by the French and Spanish Government, was approved to include a “Cross Chapter Paper” on the Mediterranean Basin into the report of Working Group II. WG2 “assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to it”. Wolfgang Cramer, the MedECC coordinator, has been asked to coordinate this cross chapter paper, several MedECC colleagues are already on the list, and we will aim to include a few more contributors. Work will start at the first authors meeting in January 2019. An “internal draft” is due on 26.4.2019, a first order draft on 7.10.2019, a second order draft on 10.7.2020 and the final government draft on 28.5.2021. The approval of the report is planned for October 2021. It will be an excellent opportunity for MedECC results to mature further and also reach a broader audience. |
Future MedECC events
• Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Climate and Environment Week 2018, “Working Group Environment and Climate Change” in Barcelona, Spain, November 12-13, 2018 ; MedECC’s work and progress will be presented.
• 3nd Meeting of Environmental Journalists from AMAN (the Allianze of Mediterranean News Agencies) (organized by UfM in collaboration with IUCN) in Barcelona, Spain, November 13-14, 2018; the themes are energy and plastics.
• UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change) COP24 (Conference of the Parties) in Katowice, Poland, in December 11 or 12, 2018; the side-event concerning MedECC will be organised in collaboration with UfM.
Soon you will find more information on these events on the MedECC website. |
Achebak H, Devolder D, Ballester J (2018) Heat-related mortality trends under recent climate warming in Spain: A 36-year observational study. PLoS Med 15(7): e1002617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.100261 Read more. |
Chefaoui, R. M., Duarte, C. M. and Serrão, E. A. (2018), Dramatic loss of seagrass habitat under projected climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. Glob Change Biol. doi:10.1111/gcb.14401 Read more. |
Ramírez F, Rodríguez C, Seoane J, Figuerola J, Bustamante J (2018) How will climate change affect endangered Mediterranean waterbirds? PLoS ONE 13(2): e0192702. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192702 Read more. |
Hinkel J, Aerts J, Brown S et al. (2018) The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change, 8, 570–578 Read more. |
Progress in Oceanography Special issue of MERMEX project: Recent advances in the oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea Edited by Richard Sempéré, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Cécile Guieu, Ivane Pairaud Volume 163, Pages 1-282 (April 2018) The 22 papers in this volume are the result of research conducted since 2010 in the framework of the MERMEX project, a component of the MISTRALS programme Read more. |
Report entitled “Climate Change Adaptation in the Arab States: Best Practices and Lessons Learned” has been published by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and GEF (Global Environment Facility) in July 2018. The purpose of this publication is to detail lessons learned from UNDP’s Climate Change Adaptation work and achievements in the Arab region on achieving sustainable and lasting results. Read more. |
This latest Breakthrough report argues for an urgent risk reframing of climate research and the IPCC reports. What Lies Beneath is the inside story of how climate policy-making has become embedded in a culture of failure and scientific reticence. The report brings together the voices of some of the world’s leading scientists. Written by: David Spratt & Ian Dunlop Foreword by: Hans Joachim …Read more. |
Source: FAO press release 10 July 2018, Rome New analysis and modelling released today by FAO and more than 100 collaborating scientists projects that by 2050 climate change will have altered the productivity of many of the planet's marine and freshwater fisheries, affecting the livelihoods of millions of the worlds' poorest people. While the productive potential of fisheries in exclusive …Read more. |
Proposed science institute will focus on the Mediterranean and Middle East, regions that will be hard hit by global warming. Nature News, 27 June 2018 Anita Makri The tiny island of Cyprus is reshaping itself into a regional hub for climate-change research. The country lies at the meeting point of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa — areas … Read more. |
This report, coordinated by Stéphane Pouffary (ENERGIES 2050), Guillaume de Laboulaye (ENERGIES 2050) and Constantin Tsakas (Institut de la Méditerranée, FEMISE), presents in an updated way the realities of climate change in the countries around the Mediterranean basin and the actions implemented by stakeholders to respond to the challenges of the fight against climate change. Read more. |
'When we come home with our happy memories, we’re leaving behind a toxic legacy of plastic waste' Josh Gabbatiss; Science Correspondent, 7 June 2018 ; The Independent. Every summer the holidaymakers hitting the beaches of the Mediterranean bring with them a massive wave of marine litter. Read more. |
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