Publication

With the aim of exploring future scenarios and bringing fresh ideas for action in the Mediterranean-Maghreb region, these background papers were circulated and discussed by participants at a specialized seminar that was held in Barcelona, in early July 2010. This report includes 5 comprehensive papers written by analysts and authors who are well acquainted with energy issues and who have taken stock of the current state of play in the Western Mediterranean: the need for the region to reinvent itself energy-wise, the industrial potential of linking phosphates extraction in Morocco with gas supply from Algeria or the promising possibilities of solar energy, with a close look at a case study linking the latter with water desalination.