Latin America, MENA Countries Called upon to Boost Cooperation in Renewable Energy

Marrakech, 11/11/2016 (MAP) – Participants in a conference, held on Thursday in Marrakech as part of the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation between the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and those of Latin America in the field of renewable energy.

During this meeting, themed “Renewable Energy: Reducing Carbon Emission, Experiences of MENA, Latin America countries and the Caribbean”, international experts and researchers in the field of renewable energy called for promoting the deployment of renewable energy as a mitigation measure of strong impact in achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

The conference, initiated by the Council for Arab Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (CARLAC), in collaboration with OCP Policy Center, University of Maryland (USA), Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), and the Ministry of Municipality and the Environment of Qatar, was an opportunity to exchange expertise and lessons learned in these regions that have developed interesting experiences in the field of renewable energy, capitalizing on their natural resources: wind, sun and wind.