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The Ocean Science Decade: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean health
The ocean covers 71% of the Earth’s surface and it is the planet’s life support system. Our security, our economy, our very survival, all require healthy oceans. Sadly, much of the ocean is now seriously degraded, with changes and losses in the structure, function and...
Journalists and MIO-ECSDE member NGOs now better equipped to protect disappearing coastal wetlands of the Mediterranean
Wetlands are among the world’s most productive environments. At the crossroads of key economic sectors, wetlands are wellsprings of biological diversity and provide vital natural resources as well as valuable services to humankind, representing a significant...
NGOs counter industry’s lobby against citizens’ right to know about toxic chemicals in everyday products
41 NGOs, including MIO-ECSDE express their strong support on the ECHA database of substances of very high concern and underline that this information is crucial to the circular economy and to the protection of human health and the environment.
Save #OurBlueLung: 35 NGOs join forces and urge EU ministers to commit to 20 measures to protect our seas by 2020
Clean, healthy and abundant seas by 2020. This is what European countries committed to achieve when they adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 10 years ago. With little more than a year until the deadline, all countries of the European Union are failing on...