Scheduled to take place from 30 November to 23 December in Dubai, COP28 is fast approaching, which explains the current mobilisation of Moroccan environmental players on the eve of the event.
First of all, a meeting to prepare the COP28 was organised in Rabat, on the initiative of Moroccan environmental civil society, represented by the Moroccan Alliance for Climate and Sustainable Development (AMCDD). The aim of the two-day meeting, held under the theme "Climate turmoil: let's make COP28 an opportunity to avoid crossing the tipping point of no return", was to share and discuss recent developments in climate issues and the main concerns of COP28 for Morocco and Africa. The aim was to coordinate initiatives and bring together the various ideas of the participating activist organisations, namely the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), the Climate Action Network Arab World (CAN Arab), the AMCDD and IMAL, among others.
A second event has also been organised along the same lines: the Casablanca Climate Leadership Forum 2023. The event takes place on 23 and 24 November on the ESCA campus. It brings together activists, intellectuals and professionals from across the African continent. It is an annual meeting organised by ESCA Ecole de Management in partnership with the Business Schools for Climate Leadership Africa network (BS4CL Africa).
Finally, an urban pilot project has just been launched in Marrakech on the initiative of the renewable energy research, testing and training platform, Green Energy Park, part of the Solar Energy and New Energies Research Institute. The project enables female students enrolled at universities far from Dar Attaliba to enjoy greater freedom of mobility and adapt to changing university timetables thanks to electric motorbikes. As well as being a sustainable mobility solution, this initiative helps to improve the safety of young girls and promote their education in marginalised areas.