In the authentic city of Tangier, where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic converge, the first edition of the international recycling and waste management exhibition (RWM) was held from June 22 to 25, 2022.
On June the 2nd, under the Mediterranean sunlight and the hot summer of Catania in Sicily, the Festival of Mediterranean Citizens was launched. It was dedicated and open to all citizens who believe they can shape a community while recognising common roots and interests in diversity and building a culture of rights, democracy, and equality.
More than six years after the Paris Agreement, and less than two years before the Global Stocktake planned in the Article 14, the world is still not on track to limit global warming to 2°C compared to pre-industrial area, and even less to 1.5°C (Climate Action Tracker, 2021). It is now certain that even the Covid-19 pandemic did not stop the rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: it just paused it.
As part of the Africa-Europe Week (14 -18 February), the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) secretariat, the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA) secretariat, with the support of the Covenant of Mayors for the Mediterranean (CoM Med/Clima Med) hosted a session entitled, “Youth and Cities vs Climate Change: How cities, local organisations and youth can team up to fight climate change”.
