The policy paper “Bologna Charter 2012 - European Regions Charter for the promotion of a common framework for strategic actions aimed at the protection and sustainable development of the Mediterranean coastal areas” (www.bolognacharter.eu), was subscribed on the 21st of March 2013 by several maritime Regions and Administrations of the Mediterranean, and adopted by the Intermediterranean Commission of the CRPM, General Assembly on the 27th of June 2013 in Barcelona. This document represents the updating of the Bologna Charter Joint Action Plan (BC-JAP) issued in 2015 (MED Capitalization Program, COASTGAP project’ Best Practice n. 5) prepared with the contribution of project’s and BC’s partners within the BC Coordination Board started in 2014 by the Intermediterranean Commmission of the CPMR, and now “Bologna Charter Task Force” within the working Group on Transport & Integrated Maritime Policy of the IMC-CPMR, and in particular it: updates on the frame of action and the implementation activities of the BC-JAP after 4 years from its issue and presentation within the Med Capitalisation Final Event by the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, in March 2015; refers on the state-of-art of JAP implementation and its impact on policies in these years, through cooperation projects for the development and objectives achievements of the action lines of JAP Strategic Themes 1 to 3, on the advancements of Major Coastal Projects implementation (JAP Strategic Theme 4) and on the start and participation in new initiatives matching with topics of Blue Economy development, coastal & maritime Sustainable Tourism and coastal protection; recalls on new adhesions and extension of the BC cooperation space in the Mediterranean, and outlines new opportunities emerged, initiatives created in the Med area, and what still is to be done in the next period towards the completion of the JAP implementation and achievements of the Bologna Charter objectives and moreover it introduces new Major Coastal Projects proposed by participating coastal Regions (Annexes 3 and 4); introduces a new comprehensive strategy for assisting adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean coastal region Joint Action Plan (new Annex 5) responding thus also to the expectations indicated for the Bologna Charter initiative by the WestMed Initiative Framework for Action {COM(2017) 183 final}, while indicating tools also for maintaining updated data/information ON MEDITERRANEAN COASTS ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES on erosion phenomena and coastal risks and contributing to harmonise and expand the coastline monitoring systems for basin scale R&I activities. from 2007-13, through 2014-20, towards 2021-27 JOINT ACTION PLAN on Med Coasts Adaptation to Climate Change “Developing conditions for the Blue Growth in the Mediterranean” This document has been elaborated thanks to the contribution of Administrations adhering to the Bologna Charter initiative. Partners of the BC initiative are: Regione Emilia-Romagna (I) / Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (F) / Collectivité Territoriale de Corse (F) / Decentralized Administration of Crete (GR) / Département de l’Hérault (F) / Dubrovnik-Neretva County (HR) / Junta de Andalucia (E) / Generalitat Valenciana (E) / Region of East Macedonia and Thrace (GR) / Regione Lazio (I) / Regione Liguria (I) / Regione Marche (I) / Regione Toscana (I) / Intermediterranean Commission of the CPMR / Regione Puglia (I) / Regione Abruzzo (I) / Regione Calabria (I) / Provincia di Crotone (I) / Regione Campania (I) / Govern de les Illes Baleares (E) / Generalitat de Catalunya (E) / Ministry of Environmental Protection of Israel (IL) / Split-Dalmatia County (HR) / Ministry of Communication and Works of Cyprus (CY) / Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia (I) / Šibenik-Knin County (HR) / Region of Western Greece (GR) / Region of Murcia (E) / Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (I) / Region of Attica (GR) Dubrovacko-Neretvanska Zupanija Region of East Mace- donia and Thrace Provincia di Crotone CYPRUS BC-JAP 2019 1 JOINT ACTION PLAN on Med Coasts Adaptation to Climate Change “Developing conditions for the Blue Growth in the Mediterranean” from 2007-2013, through 2014-2020, towards 2021-2027 a lot we did together, a lot is still to do for our coasts, all around the Mediterranean What is the Mediterranean? A thousand things together. Not a landscape but innumerable landscapes. Not a sea but a succession of seas. Not one civilization, but a series of civilizations stacked one upon the other. All this because the Mediterranean is an ancient crossroads. For thousands of years all converged there, complicating and enriching its history. In the physical landscape as in the human, the crossroads of the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean composite, presents itself to our memory as a coherent image, where everything comes together and merges in an original unity. Fernand Braudel (1902- 1985) BC-JAP 2019 2 JOINT ACTION PLAN on Med Coasts Adaptation to Climate Change “Developing conditions for the Blue Growth in the Mediterranean” JOINT ACTION PLAN on Med Coasts Adaptation to Climate Change “Developing conditions for the Blue Growth in the Mediterranean” INDEX ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 VISION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INITIATIVE .................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 WHY A JOINT REGIONAL INITIATIVE ................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROCESS ....................................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 MAIN AREAS OF COOPERATION ........................................................................................................................................ 7 1.5 IMPACTS ON POLICIES, INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................. 8 1.6 JAP IMPLEMENTATION SO FAR ......................................................................................................................................... 9 2. COASTAL PROTECTION AND COASTAL-MARITIME TOURISM: CONDITIONS & DRIVERS FOR A SUSTAINABLE BLUE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 FRAMEWORK .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 2.2 AN INTEGRATED PROJECT INITIATIVE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN ............................................................................................ 12 2.3 THE CO-EVOLVE APPROACH FOR A SUSTAINABLE TOURISM .................................................................................................. 15 2.4 A MED REGIONAL COMMUNITY TO MAKE TOURISM MORE SUSTAINABLE .............................................................................. 16 3. A STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE, MONITORING SYSTEMS AND ACTIONS FOR ASSISTING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, RESILIENCE AND PROTECTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL AREAS ................. 18 3.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COASTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT ............................................................................. 18 3.3 GUIDELINES ON COASTAL PROTECTION FROM EROSION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS (OVERVIEW) ........................................... 18 4. ECOSYSTEMIC APPROACH: A CONSISTENT APPROACH FOR THE BC-JOINT ACTION PLAN ................................. 22 4.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................... 22 4.2 MATCHING OF BC-JAP WITH ECAP PRINCIPLES ................................................................................................................ 23 5. EUROPEAN STRATEGIC PROJECTS: COASTAL ADMINISTRATIONS AS PROMOTERS OF MACRO-REGIONAL INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS ............................................................................................................................ 25 5.1 LOOKING TO MACRO-REGIONAL AND SEA BASIN STRATEGIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ............................................................... 26 5.2 A WAY TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION IN THE MACRO REGIONAL STRATEGIES ............................................................................... 27 6. JOINT ACTION PLAN FRAMEWORK AND APPROACH ....................................................................................... 28 6.1 JOINT ACTIONS SUPPORT REGIONAL COOPERATION AND CLUSTERING INITIATIVES ..................................................................... 28 6.2 WIDENING THE APPROACH AND UNLOCKING RESEARCH & INNOVATION AND MARKET POTENTIALS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ........ 29 7. JOINT ACTION PLAN STRATEGIC THEMES ....................................................................................................... 31 7.1 STRATEGIC THEME N. 1 -