Dr Stefano Moncada, Director of the Islands and Small States Institute, lecturer at the Institute for European Studies, and Climate Change Platform Focal Point, has been awarded the as part of the network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (), which is composed by more than six hundred scientists from 35 states from the Mediterranean and Europe.
The Council of Europe recognised that MedECC “…constitutes both, a leading example of the potential of collaboration between states and societies to face the challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability, as well as response to the need of scientific and expert cooperation to produce knowledge-based analysis as a sound basis for policy planning.
The network also constitutes a concrete example of the vision of the Mediterranean Sea as a shared space of peace, development and human rights, which led to the creation, twenty-five years ago, of the Barcelona Process.â€
Dr Moncada had contributed as Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) to the chapter on development and economic impacts, and to the summary for policy makers, part of the first MedECC assessment report (), with Prof. Wolfgang Cramer, Dr Joel Guiot and Dr Katarzyna Marini as editors and key figures of the network.
The report aims at moving toward an improved scientific assessment of climate and environmental change and their consequences in the Mediterranean Basin. The MedECC is supported by a series of institutions and international organisations, among which the United Nations Mediterranean Action Plan, the Union for the Mediterranean, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
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