Seminar
09 September 2025 17:30 — 18:30
The TeraMed initiative: Unleashing North Africa’s renewable potential for a 1TW Mediterranean future
On 9 September 2025, from 17:30–18:30 EAT (local Addis time), ECDPM, in collaboration with ECCO Climate, PowerShift Africa, CAN Africa, IMAL Initiative, and PIE Climate, will host a side event during the Second African Climate Summit which will bring together experts from the Mediterranean, African countries, institutions, and financiers to explore opportunities for North African countries, showcase the growing momentum in the Mediterranean region, and highlight North Africa’s potential to emerge as a leading clean energy hub, with the aim of strengthening regional cooperation and accelerating shared goals.
Event details:
Organising entity: Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency RCREEE
Contact person: Fatouma Hanini
Contact email: fatouma.hanini@rcreee.org
Room: F2
Background
The Mediterranean region presents unique opportunities for a high-renewables economic development trajectory, with North African countries in particular benefiting from some of the lowest projected clean energy costs, highly complementary wind and solar conditions, and strategic access to both African and European markets, positioning the region as a gateway and driving force for the continent’s green industrialization.
TeraMed, a cross-regional, multistakeholder initiative endorsed by IRENA, the Global Renewable Alliance, and the Union for the Mediterranean, aims to transform the Mediterranean from a climate hotspot into a clean energy and industrial hub by tripling renewables and achieving 1TW of installed renewable capacity by 2030, an ambitious goal that requires new clean energy partnerships within Africa and across the Mediterranean with Europe.
