In-person event:
The current climate emergency makes it inevitable that our economic models will have to change in order to ensure a sustainable future. Faced with this existential threat, the European Union is determined to build a new economic model to achieve climate neutrality by 2050: the EU Green Deal. The EU Green Deal is a genuine ambition to transform the economy and societies, and a strategy to ensure the EU’s future prosperity. It recognises that this transformation cannot be achieved without close cooperation with the rest of the world.
In the south of a Mediterranean region that is facing faster global warming than elsewhere, the Kingdom of Morocco is a leader in climate action and green transition. Morocco’s proactive policy, renewable energy development model, and climate activism make it an example to follow for many developing countries.
It is in this context that the Kingdom of Morocco and the European Union signed on 18 October 2022 a Green Partnership, the first initiative of this type by the EU with a partner country in the framework of the external dimension of the EU Green Deal. This partnership aims to accelerate convergence between the two parties on issues such as the environment, climate, and sustainable development. More specifically, the partnership will focus on three main thematic axes: climate and energy; the environment, including marine and maritime issues; and the green economy, while serving as an example to other countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean.
In this context, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the EU, are organising a seminar in Brussels to exchange with European and national decision-makers on the potential of the EU-Morocco Green Partnership in areas such as the energy transition and the green economy. The event, which will take place during the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU, will bring together policy makers, researchers and private sector representatives with a twofold objective: (1) to assess the potential of this partnership for increasing energy interdependence between the two parties, with a view to further developing the deployment of renewable energies; and (2), to explore the opportunities that this partnership offers to the rest of the southern Mediterranean region, placing Morocco once again as a pioneering partner of the EU.
This event is organised in collaboration with the Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the EU and NATO and European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and it is part of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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A light networking lunch will be provided from 13:00 onwards
Registrations end 26 October 12:00
