With the 2024 Activity Report, Plan Bleu reaffirms its key role in fostering Mediterranean cooperation on environmental protection and sustainable development.
The report provides a summary of Plan Bleu’s main activities and achievements in 2024. Among them is the launch of the 2024–2025 work programme, which incorporates new priorities such as the blue economy and sustainable tourism. This year also marks the completion of the MED 2050 foresight report, a major collective effort that outlines various scenarios for the future of the Mediterranean up to 2050.
The year 2024 was also marked by the start of the revision of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (2026–2035), the publication of new reports by the MedECC network on climate risks and the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus, as well as significant progress in sustainable water management, ecosystem restoration, urban resilience, and the adaptation of tourism destinations.
The drafting of the foresight report “The Mediterranean in 2050” has also been completed, offering recommendations for a sustainable transition based on cooperation at multiple scales.
Plan Bleu has invested in renewed tools and methods, new thematic areas, and improved support functions.
According to Robin Dragon, Director of Plan Bleu: “This 2024 Activity Report of Plan Bleu is more than a reflective review or a look back at the past year. It is a roadmap for the decade ahead, a compass to face the turbulent times to come. Supported by the 2024 to 2026 service plan, our association has undergone a deep restructuring, with strong focus areas relating to tools and methods, thematic priorities, and support functions … Our priorities are the priorities of the Basin. The course is clear: to support States and stakeholders in adapting to climate disruptions, to improve water resource management, to preserve and even restore biodiversity and forests, to rebuild resilient cities, to transform tourism for greater sustainability, and to secure the means to finance these ambitions.”