Second conference of the Aula Árabe Universitaria 3 program, by Jürgen Scheffran, Professor of Geography at the University of Hamburg. The conference is also available in Spanish on this channel and on video on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/cogjfG98sAM The Mediterranean region, connecting South Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, is a complex crisis landscape and hotspot of geopolitical conflicts which can spillover into neighbouring regions. Increasingly, the region is exposed to climate change which is a multiplier of risks, interwoven with the region’s geopolitical dimensions, including natural disasters, water and food shortages, energy transformation, human migration, conflict and cooperation. Climate risks are expected to diminish human livelihood security for a growing population and interact with other pre-existing challenges to regional stability. Cooperation across the Mediterranean is difficult, given the wide disparities and divisions of the area. There is growing concern and awareness of climate-related common security challenges, to be addressed in climate diplomacy initiatives and activities, for instance water and energy partnerships, networks for information exchange and regional governance. These issues were addressed at the conference "Geopolitics and the climate diplomacy in the Mediterranean region: from conflict to cooperation," given by Jürgen Scheffran, a professor of Geography at the University of Hamburg and Chairman of the Climate Change and Security Research Group (CLISEC) at that university. Casa Árabe organized this second conference in the Aula Árabe Universitaria 3 (AAU3) program with the cooperation of the Master’s degree program “EU and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis,” taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The meeting was introduced and moderated by Olivia Orozco, Casa Árabe’s Training and Economic Coordinator, and Ruth Ferrero Turrión, a professor of Political Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/geopolitics-and-climate-diplomacy-in-the-mediterranean-region-from-climate-conflict-to-cooperation Photo: Mediterranean Sea, Malta (Pom' on Flickr)