CMCC President Antonio Navarra, took part in the panel “Strategic Mediterranean. Energy, corridors and climate”, organised in collaboration with OMEC and CMCC, speaking about climate security and resilience. The Mediterranean is increasingly at the centre of global energy strategies, amid new corridors, infrastructures, and the impacts of climate change. From 28 to 30 May 2026, Lecce hosted the 14th edition of the Festival dell’Energia, titled “Energy and Freedom. Europe put to the test of the future.” 

At the heart of the dialogue was the concept of climate security, a political and policy framework that examines how the climate crisis affects global peace, stability, and human well‑being. Navarra stressed how understanding climate change – the first major global problem to be tackled through the lens of resilience – provides useful tools for rethinking policies, investments, and infrastructures.

“In an increasingly fragmented, chaotic and unpredictable world, dependencies – such as energy dependence – become a problem,” Navarra said during his speech at the Festival dell’Energia in Lecce, underlining the need to reduce vulnerabilities and systemic risks.

“Resilience means being able to absorb unpredictable shocks in such a way as to continue operating,” he continued. “Climate security is a global concept and it is a contribution that climate science can offer to politics: how to be resilient to unexpected events.”

Looking to the future, Navarra pointed out that resilience must be extended to overall public policies, including energy and investment policies, in order to design systems capable of withstanding physical, economic, and geopolitical shocks.

This message was echoed by Houda Ben Jannet Allal, Director General of the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie et du Climat (OMEC), who draws a direct link between climate security and energy security in the Mediterranean region.

“We need to tackle climate issues also from the perspective of energy security. Stability and energy security are of fundamental importance in the Mediterranean,” Allal stressed in her speech.