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Towards Green Growth in the Mediterranean Region Environmental assets for job creation in the Mediterranean Side event of the 6th World Water Forum Marseille, March 13, 2012 8:30 – 11:30 AM

The consultation on the overview of the Center for Integration in the Mediterranean (CMI) 2012 MED Report « Towards green growth in the Mediterranean countries » took place on March 13, 2012. About 100 people attended the event. It was co-organized by the CMI and the Office of Economic Cooperation for the Mediterranean and the Middle East (OCEMO) and their partners Plan Bleu, Femise and the City of Marseille. The event was a side-event of the 6th World Water Forum, which was held from March 12 - 17, as part of the build up to the upcoming Rio+20 Summit. One of the two themes of Rio+20 is the green economy. M. Brice Lalonde, the UN Executive Coordinator for RIO + 20, was one of the keynote speakers at the side-event. He said that that green economy and green growth are still not familiar ideas, a lot of work and studies still needs to be done. Moreover, M. Lalonde expressed the need to find an “Adam Smith” of the green economy. Several recent reports present the opportunities of the green economy; such as those by the OECD, UNEP, or the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED). The latter “advocates a development model rooted in a green economy.” The speakers were M. Jose Luis Irigoyen, Director (WB/SDN); M. Stephane Hallegatte; economist (part of team for the ongoing World Bank Green Growth report), M. Jean-Pascal Bassino World Bank consultant and M. Frédéric Blanc, Director of Femise, who both worked on the CMI 2012 MED Report. Mediterranean Southern countries were represented by Dr. Mohamed Abd Al-Motaleb, First Undersecretary of the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation; Dr. Wafik Grais, Egyptian senior economist and independent advisor; M. Rida Lamrini, President of the Moroccan Young Entrepreneur Foundation. Finally M. Christian Averous, senior economist, provided recommendations as President of a working group on


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