COPAR AFD-OSS

The COPAR initiative stands as an opportunity for consolidated dialogue and strategic reflection on pressing environmental challenges. By developing and disseminating advocacy tools, while convening high-level roundtables and scientific events, it seeks to align the visions of its partner institutions and embed their actions within the broader continuity of their respective strategies.

Its first phase focused on one of the world’s most vulnerable regions: the Maghreb and the Sahel that are already marked by fragility and whose vulnerabilities are deepened by the impacts of climate change, which directly threaten water resources, ecosystems, food security, housing, and public health. The Sixth IPCC Report, released in 2022, further confirmed this alarming reality, underlining the magnitude of the challenges these regions face.

Building on these foundations, the second phase of COPAR seeks to broaden its scope by mobilizing the international scientific and political community around critical issues such as sustainable land management, climate change adaptation, and the governance of natural resources in Africa. The initiative aims to deliver a strong and reliable advocacy for ecosystem protection as a means for protected and stabilized populations, while enhancing their adaptive capacity in the face of growing climate pressures. At the same time, it seeks to give room for sustained debates on land degradation and the pathways for restoration, guiding environmental, climate, and natural resource discourse toward constructive perspectives and concrete solutions.