The WeMed Mediterranean Sustainability Award is one of the first awards aiming to recognize an inclusive transition to sustainability in the Mediterranean. The region of the southern Mediterreanean faces an array of environmental and social challenges. Climate change, demographic growth, urbanization and increased resource consumption and waste are just a few of these challenges that require radical change to confront.
In its first edition 2021, the award seeks to identify change makers within the following categories:
A new promising partnership was signed on May 20, 2021 between representatives of the Expeditions MED association and representatives of the Regional Activity Center for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP/RAC) to join forces and address the environmental, social and economic challenges related to plastic pollution in the Mediterranean.
At the occasion of the World Environment Day (5th June), the UN Environment Programme is launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as a global rallying cry to heal our planet., recalling for the need to recreate, initiate, or accelerate the recovery of an ecosystem that has been disturbed.
SCP/RAC is bringing together its National Focal Points for their 13th meeting, held online from June 1 to 3. A great occasion for the SCP/RAC team to present the past and future activities of the centre and to review on SCP/RAC ‘s activities in compliance with the Programme of Work 2020-2021 adopted at COP21.