La Casa dels Futurs works to build networks of mutual aid and climate resilience in the Mediteranean to incubate practical and social solutions that can be shared, adapted and replicated across the entire region.
Contexto:
Climate predictions estimate that the Mediteranean region is and will be one of the most affected regions by the climate crisis. The Mediteranean region is one of the most densly populated areas on the planet, with 480 million people living along its coasts.
Mediterranean Climate Justice Gathering
From 28 to 29 June 2024, La Casa dels Futurs organised – together with the Environmental Justice Atlas – an intersectional and international Mediterranean Climate Justice meeting that aimed to support the creation of new networks of mutual support and climate resilience in the Mediterranean. With speakers from Palestine, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Spain, and other countries, this meeting – funded by the María de Maeztu programme (ICTA – Universidad Autonoma Barcelona) – promoted the exchange of experiences on regionally relevant topics such as water, migration, energy imperialism, energy democracy, neocolonialism and climate resilience, as we worked towards the co-creation of a vision of Mediterranean climate justice.
For three days, the sessions used participatory and decolonial pedagogies to advance the construction of networks of mutual support, horizontal exchanges of knowledge, and collaborative endeavours against the logic of borders that currently divides Mediterranean cultures. A common thread of the meeting was an artivist project of collective counter-mapping, in which participants and speakers collaborated to weave together an alternative map of the Mediterranean.
International Presenters:
- Hamza Hamouchène (Algèria): Transnational Institute
- Mahmoud Nawajaa (Palestina): Coordinador BDS National Committee (BNC)
- Ali Amouzai (Marroc): Activist + Researcher
- Elyes Ben Ammar (Tuníisia)
- Ali Amouzai (Marroc): Working Group for Energy Democracy – Tunisia
- Angham Daoub (Syria): CREAF Research Center (UAB)
- Paul Saad (Lebanon): Permaculturist + Artivist
- Oscar Piñeiro (Spain/Marroc): Granja Hrouch y Furgo Solidaria
Local Presenters:
- A.M.R.A. – Association de Mujeres Racilializadas y/o Afrodescenentes
- Aigua es Vida
- Amigues de la Terra
- Huertos Can Masdeu
- Taula Per Mèxic
- Entre Pobles / Entre Pueblos
EarthStraunauts:
Casa dels Futurs attended an international meeting organised by the European Climate Foundation, Dancing Fox and in collaboration with the Arab Network for Environment and Development where more than 30 activists from the Mediterranean region met for 4 days of network co-building and narratives towards more just futures for the region.
Climate Change and the Mediterranean region: [IMAGE]
The Mediterranean region is warming 20% faster than the global average. Coastal zones face heightened disaster risks, including flooding and erosion, and the salinization of river deltas and aquifers that sustain food security and livelihoods. An increase of 2°C to 4°C would reduce precipitation by up to 30% in Southern Europe. Water temperature is expected to rise by between 1.8°C and 3.5°C by 2100 with hotspots in Spain and in the Eastern Mediterranean.
