The SNRT (The Moroccan Public Broadcasting Company) recently featured the Imal Initiative for Climate and Development (IMAL) on Chaine Inter English with Manal Benzair in an interview of Iskander Erzini Vernoit, co-founder and executive director at IMAL. This radio interview touched on the origins of IMAL as the first climate-focused think tank in North Africa, its scope across its four programmes, as well as its recent activities and its future plans. Excerpted version below

Source: Marsa Maroc IMAL director Rachid Ennassiri is featured with a quote on Bloomberg (link here), offering perspective on Morocco's energy transition plans and proposals for a $1 billion USD Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import hub: “Gas will play a limited role in replacing coal, with planned renewable expansion being a far larger percentage of new capacity.”

(Dialogue Earth) As part of a collection of African perspectives on the COP30 outcome, Dialogue Earth has published analysis from IMAL's Executive Director, Iskander Erzini Vernoit, alongside that of other Africans (full article available here): "Difficult conversations denied, meaningful multilateralism delayed: COP30 tells the story of a hollow process, awaiting the day when governments are ready for at-scale action and funding, not only words, to meet the climate emergency