Get ready for a Mediterranean summer with the AMWAJ Newsletter! 🌊☀️🏖️📩
Find plenty of opportunities for this summer: events, fellowships, jobs, courses & much more! Don’t forget to be water safe!💧🌱
Communicating the shift towards water resilience
Tayyarat
Lebanon floats on groundwater reservoirs…does it need dams?
The water dam dossier in Lebanon has been one of the most controversial issues in the last ten years. While some advocate for their construction, others describe them as one of the biggest failures in the country. Were these dams really a failure, or were the campaigns filed under the context of political inducements in Lebanon?
Follow the sun: Breaking down Lebanon’s solar revolution
Lebanon is struggling to deliver more than two hours of electricity per day to its citizens. Without state-provided electricity and fuel to run private generators, everyday people in Lebanon have been forced to seek out alternative ways to power their homes: they are turning towards the power of the sun.
The Innovate4Climate Journalists Workshop took place on 23 May 2022 within the framework of the Innovate4Climate Conference – the World Bank Group’s flagship climate action event. The four-hour online workshop brought together journalists, media professionals and technical experts to learn about carbon markets and carbon pricing, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Podcast on Wetlands and Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure in Turkey
Listen to Caterina Scaramelli – Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Earth and Environment at Boston University – talking about Turkey’s wetland ecosystems.
Join climate and water experts in a public event on “Water Scarcity and Drought: from crisis management to long-term adaptation” on the 5th of July. The session is organized by Aqua Publica Europea, AEOPAS, and EMASESA.
Beirut DC and Greener Screen are looking for environmental film projects from Jordan to take part in the first "Storytelling for Climate". Selected filmmakers will have the chance to pitch their films to activists, subject-matter experts, and potential allies for the realization of their projects.
The Climate Change Media Partnership fellowship will allow 22 fellows from low and middle-income countries to travel to COP27. The fellowship consists of pre-departure training and full coverage of transportation, meals, lodging, and participation cost in the upcoming conference.
SDSN Youth Mediterranean is looking for volunteers for positions such as social media manager, content creator, graphic designer, membership manager and others. If you’re a student/professional aged between 20-30 and passionate about sustainable development goals, check this opportunity!
How can you reduce the impact of what you eat? The Green Living Territories course of the Interreg Euro-MED Academy tackles that challenge by sharing tools used in successful study cases to find concrete and effective solutions. The course is starting July 4! Don’t miss it and enrol now!
Clean Rivers Hub is organizing a crowdfunding campaign to kickstart the organization. They are a dynamic team of sustainability experts aiming to accelerate the global cleaning and restoration of freshwater ecosystems through cooperation and collaboration.
AMWAJ stands for A Mediterranean Water And Journalism platform for sustainable development. We aspire to build an energy and water community around the Mediterranean. An initiative by REVOLVE.
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