Oct. 25, 2010
Serbian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic officially endorsed Serbia's participation in the Mediterranean Climate Change Initiative at a summit held in Athens on October 22. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage a unified effort to mitigate climate change impacts throughout the Mediterranean Sea region, and also to encourage the exchange of funds and technology between the involved parties, Dulic stated.
Fifteen Mediterranean states, including Israel, Libya, Malta, Palestine and Turkey, have already agreed to support the initiative, and to provide a platform for the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Cancun, Mexico. Despite political rifts between some nations in the group, leaders throughout the region recognise climate change as a common threat to their way of life, according to one diplomat from a participating country.
According to AFP, the major environmental challenges in the Mediterranean region caused by climate change are water security, sustainable energy and desertification. All of these problems threaten to jeopardise regional income derived from tourism and other industries.
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