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MIO-ECSDE showcases the nexus approach as a tool for safeguarding biodiversity at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Egypt
Biodiversity often falls victim to competing claims on nature and its use. Despite the substantial efforts at EU and global level to protect, conserve and enhance the natural capital, assessments show that biodiversity is still being lost and that most ecosystems are...
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Debating the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in the Mediterranean
Some 65 Members of Parliament, Journalists and NGOs from 20 or so countries gathered in Brussels on the 22nd of November 2018 to debate the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in the Mediterranean. The aim of the event was to enhance the understanding of the...
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A plastic-free Mediterranean Sea in the making: Members of Parliament and key stakeholders discuss the state of play and realistic steps forward
On the 21st of November the Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas Intergroup (Searica) met with MIO-ECSDE and the informal Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD) at the European Parliament in Brussels. This was a unique...
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Progress on Mediterranean ESD efforts
The Mediterranean Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (MSESD) was unanimously endorsed on 13 May 2014 by the UfM Ministers of Environment & Climate Change and accepted as an integral part of the “Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development”...
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The Mediterranean works towards a Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Change in 2020 and the formulation of a Horizon2030 Initiative
Country representatives and regional stakeholders met for the second Union for the Mediterranean Working Group on Environment and Climate Change on the 12th of November 2018 in Barcelona.
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MIO-ECSDE brings together Members of Parliament to explore stronger measures against plastic pollution in the Mediterranean
The Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas Intergroup (Searica), which brings together more than 80 Members of the European Parliament from six different political groups and 19 Member States; together with the informal Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for...
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