Environmental project

THE regional government has approved a grant of 200,000 for a project en ‐couraging resilience against climate change in the north of Africa.

quired to freeze or reduce the rent. Regional president Francina Armengol hopes that the measure will convince many proprietors to place their empty homes on the market and change holidays lets for long‐term rentals, in a bid to solve the chronic housing shortage on the is‐lands.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Re ‐sources (IUCN) is working with social organisations in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to boost sustain ‐ability and rural develop ‐ment on the southern coast of the Mediter ‐ranean.

More specifically, the project aims to support initiatives for biodiversity and ecosystem conserva ‐tion, sustainable manage‐ment of natural resources and adaptation to climate change through the fund‐ ing of non ‐ governmental organisations or NGOs.

CLIMATE CHANGE: A grant has been approved.

It is part of the Cooper ‐ation Strategy for Global Transformation in the Mediterranean 2023 ‐2026.

The IUCN is an interna ‐tional association estab ‐lished in 1948 as the first