6th meeting of ARLEM's Commission for Sustainable Development

Met dank overgenomen van Comité van de Regio's (CvdR) i, gepubliceerd op woensdag 10 september 2014.

​ At the invitation of Michel Vauzelle, SUDEV co-chair and President of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Regional Council (France), members of the Commission for Sustainable Development (SUDEV) of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) will meet in Marseille on 19 September 2014 to debate the recent developments linked to the Euro-Mediterranean strategy on environment and climate change as well as sustainable waste management at the local and regional level.

In the meeting Michel Lebrun, president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and ARLEM co-president, and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) will reflect on the follow-up of the UfM Ministerial meeting on environment and climate change from a local and regional perspective. The statement will be complemented by presentations of projects for more sustainable Mediterranean cities.

An ARLEM report on waste management at the local and regional level in the Mediterranean will be presented by Mohamed Boudra, president of the region of Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate (Morocco), outlining economic, social and environmental issues and challenges associated with this topic. It includes objectives and measures to be taken to improve the capacity and resources of local and regional authorities to collect, dispose and utilise waste. Examples of successful practices will be presented by local and regional authorities. Furthermore, Mariana Gâju , member of the CoR and mayor of the Cumpăna commune (Romania) will outline key elements of the Committee of the Region's draft report on "Towards a circular economy: a zero waste programme for Europe".

ARLEM's commission for Sustainable Development:

The Commission for Sustainable Development (SUDEV) is one of two commissions of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM), which aims at giving a territorial dimension to the Union for the Mediterranean. It works specifically on the following issues: sustainable development, water management, waste management, energy, solar energy, transport, agriculture, tourism, etc.

The commission is co-chaired by Hani Abdalmasih Al-Hayek, Mayor of Beit Sahour Municipality (PA), and Michel Vauzelle (FR), President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. It is composed by members of the CoR and local and regional representatives from the Mediterranean partners.