WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS SHOCKED BY UNSUSTAINABLE MALTA

Participants at the international workshop on Building Partnership for a Sustainable Future in the Mediterranean, representing development experts and activists from several countries throughout the Mediterranean, were deeply shocked by the apparently unsustainable over-development of the island and lack of open natural spaces.

They joined Maltese organisations in calling for the preservation of the country’s few remaining natural and agricultural areas. Recalling that Malta has ratified the Barcelona Convention and is a signatory of the UN Convention to combat Desertification, they called on the relevant Maltese authorities to desist from proposing and supporting projects that are unsustainable.

Agricultural land should be protected and improved because it has a value that far exceeds the price that a developer may be willing to pay for it.