Can the climate challenge be turned into an opportunity?
On 18-19 October in Paris, CIRCE, the research project about Mediterranean climate, involved stakeholders to address research and debate adaptation strategies to global warming.
CIRCE, an EU Sixth Framework Programme funded project, aims to examine climate change not only in regard to scientific data but also in connection to economic and social impacts.
During the two-days meeting, round-tables addressed the sustainability of prevailing business models, possible sector-wide transitions, socio-economic reversals. Furthermore, scientists and stakeholders investigated how this challenge can be translated into an opportunity to implement fundamental and long-needed changes. In this way, CIRCE support strategies which are based on a mix of long trends evolutions and progressive reorientation of policies which can also have positive or adverse effects on resilience or vulnerability to climate change.
Researchers, politicians and other stakeholders met in Paris to evaluate how climate change will affect agriculture and rural development, energy demand and market, tourism, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems, urban and regional planning. Important cross-cutting issues for the Mediterranean such as water supply, regional security, international migrations have been also considered during the two-day discussions.
Presentations and the meeting report are now available :
- The Meeting Report
- Energy in the Mediterranean region: Situations and Prospects, B. Allal & R. Vigotti
- Changing the Climate Forecaste in the Mediterranean, M. Astralaga
- Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to Climate Challenges, J.-P. Céron
- A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean, L. Chabason
- Agriculture and Climate Change in Mediterranean Countries, L. Tubiana
New documents and updating will also be soon available on the CIRCE website, in a section dedicated to the stakeholders.