ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Integration of climatic variability and change into

national strategies to implement the ICZM Protocol in
the Mediterranean project (ClimVar & ICZM) is a
collective efort to promote the use of Integrated Coastal
Zone Management (ICZM) as an efective tool to deal
with the impacts of climate variability and change in
coastal zones in countries sharing the Mediterranean, by
mainstreaming them into the Integrated Coastal Zone
Management process.
WHAT THE CLIMVAR & ICZM
PROJECT IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE
The 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) Report identifed the Mediterranean region as a
climate change hotspot that will sufer multiple stresses
and systemic failures due to climate changes. This
project aims to support the participating countries to
access climate change/variability assessments, data tools
and methods required to develop the most cost-efective
ICZM measures to protect coastal communities and
resources from the threats posed by climate variability
and change.
More specifcally, the objectives of the project are:
Integration of climatic variability and change into
national strategies to implement the ICZM Protocol in
the Mediterranean
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ClimVar
ICZM
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To strengthen knowledge on regional impacts of climate variability
and change and to defne their specifc characteristics in the
Mediterranean region
To strengthen partnerships, improve capacity building and
establish mechanisms for exchange of data and information for
integration of climate variability and change into concrete ICZM
policies, plans and programmes.
MAJOR OUTPUTS OF THE PROJECT
DONORS & PARTNERS
Information and data gathering
Assessment of regional and national
programs for monitoring, and tracking
climate variability and change and its
impacts
Regional consensus on a mechanism for
sharing data on climate variability and
change
Development of an online multi-country
Information Sharing Platform on climate
variability and change monitoring data in
coastal areas
In-depth analysis of climate variability
impacts
Regional Assessment of the consequences of
climate variability and change for ecosystems and human activities
Implementation of models and tools to assess environmental and socioeconomic impacts and evaluate
response options in two coastal areas in Croatia and Tunisia
Capacity building and integration of the climate dimension into ICZM planning
Development of a methodology and tools for mainstreaming climate variability and change
considerations into national ICZM planning and practices
Development of an Integrated Management Plan in the Sibenik-Knin coast in Croatia and integration of
the climate dimension in Coastal Plans in Algeria and Montenegro
Building capacity and advancing policy dialogue in participating countries on climate variability and
change
Regional assessment of Climate Change Adaptation for Mediterranean Coastal Zones and integration
into policies and plans
The ClimVar & ICZM project is led by
UNEP/MAP and is fnancially supported by the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) and all
participating countries.
The total budget of the Project is 9.2 million
USD. Out of it, the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) contributes 2.2 million, while the
remaining amount of 7 million USD is from
the participating countries, executing
agencies, and donors.
Participating countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco,
Montenegro, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.
The executing partners of the project are: PAP/RAC, Plan Bleu/RAC and GWP-Med.
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