In partnership with Plan Bleu, Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) and the Office of Economic Cooperation for the Mediterranean and Middle East (OCEMO) organized a regional conference on “Shifting to a Green Economy in the Mediterranean Region, Environment as an opportunity for jobs creation and growth” in Marseille (France), on May 23-24, 2012. This event was organized in relation with the Rio+20 Summit which will specifically deal with green economy; therefore the conference aimed at gathering high level panels to discuss green economy, through sector analysis and macroeconomic models and policies recommendations, with the participation of the private sector. A working group of experts and members of the civil society, particularly from the private sector, have met to prepare recommendations for a green economy in the Mediterranean which were presented and discussed at the conference.
