Second RESCOM Regional Steering Committee

The partner organizations of the RESCOM project met on 11 and 12 June at the Tour du Valat headquarters in the Camargue (France) to review the activities carried out since the launch of the project. This second regional Steering Committee also helped define the future directions and prospects of RESCOM. A significant milestone for the Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium (MBC), which works to develop coordinated and complementary actions to preserve the richness of Mediterranean biodiversity in all its diversity, as well as the essential ecosystem services it provides to local populations.

One year after its launch, the project is now well underway, with established management procedures and modalities, a strong team dynamic and partnership framework in place, and all activities initiated. The relevance of the MBC’s approach and the value of acting in a complementary way at a multi-ecosystem scale are already becoming concrete on the pilot sites through joint diagnostic missions carried out by its members. These missions make it possible to combine the expertise of each organization to identify appropriate measures aimed at improving the ecological status of natural environments that function in synergy. The objective is to continue embedding this intervention approach across all project activities, including regional actions and capacity-building initiatives currently under preparation (such as the Call for Small Projects, the Think & Do Tank activities, and the training programme, among others).

Through RESCOM, the MBC thus demonstrates its capacity to bring actors together and highlights the benefits of developing Nature-based Solutions in response to global challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change, which are intrinsically linked.