Priority Areas
With their shared characteristics and experiences, Mediterranean regions must come together to more effectively communicate as a unified voice to elevate the urgency of climate impacts on the global stage and advocate for resources to accelerate climate adaptation and resilience.
The Mediterranean Climate Action Partnership aims to:
ADVANCE LEARNING & CAPACITY
Accelerate concrete resilience and adaptation actions in mediterranean bioregions that protects communities from climate change impacts and strengthens biodiversity, adaptation, and resilience.
ELEVATE AWARENESS & DISTINCTION
Exchange learnings and approaches to policies, programs and governance, to streamline adoption of the best solutions that confront shared climate threats.
ACCELERATE ACTION & INVESTMENT
Uplift the shared challenges of mediterranean bioregions to mobilize investment in MCAP member regions for resilience implementation.
Partnership Milestones
Since its inauguration in December 2023, MCAP has worked with member regions to define a governance structure, detailed in the Leadership Council-approved MCAP Charter, and align around priorities, detailed in the 2024-2026 Action Agenda.
In order to shift from organization to implementation, MCAP established three Working Groups (Drought, Wildfire, and Heat) composed of technical experts from across member regions, that were tasked with developing actionable knowledge products, supporting on-the-ground projects, and scaling collective action.
Through the Work Groups, the Secretariat created the Mini Sprint Project Acceleration effort to facilitate collaboration across regions that can pilot innovative solutions around the three thematic areas.
The Secretariat also hosted its inaugural 2024 Annual Convening in partnership with member region and co-chair Catalonia bringing more 14 regions to Catalonia, Spain and second 2025 Annual Convening in partnership with member region Western Cape, bringing 12 member regions to South Africa.
In advance of COP29, members came together to jointly commit to climate action and call for increased investments in their geographies and showcased their progress to advance implementation at COP30 in Rio and Belem, Brazil. In 2026, at COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye, MCAP is a sponsor of the Mediterranean Pavilion and will showcase their newly launched Solutions Bank (coming soon!) to showcase proven solutions and speed replication.
MCAP is generously supported by The Conrad N Hilton Foundation and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.