PAM – a platform to strengthen regional cooperation in the Energy Sector – Sen. Lmarbouh at the UN High level Event on Sustainable Energy for all

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MEDIA INFORMATION: 53/2012
ISSUED ON: 26/09/2012

In his presentation, Sen. Lmarbouh highlighted the role of PAM as a platform for enhanced regional cooperation in the energy sector and how the Assembly has made the development of renewable energy a priority area for its actions in the Euro-Mediterranean region. This plan of action is meant to meet the urgent challenges of the Mediterranean populations at the environmental, economic and social levels, Sen. Lmarbouh said.

The role of national Parliaments is crucial in assisting investments in the renewable energy sector and this was confirmed at the end of the recent PAM Conference on Energy held in Ouarzazate (Morocco). The conclusions of this Parliamentary debate also called upon PAM to coordinate the establishment of a Mediterranean Community of Energy, aimed at gathering all the stakeholders, including Parliaments, governments, the industry and investors. Concurrently, Sen. Lmarbouh, concluded, a Core Group, made up of international organizations, among which, inter alia, PAM, the EBRD, MED-TSO and MEDREG, IEA and IRENA, was set up with the aim to prepare a road map and a series of activities to implement the conclusions reached in Ouarzazate.

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