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Marine litter in Mediterranean coastal and marine protected areas – How bad is it?
Marine litter is ‘building up’ in what should be pristine coastal and marine protected areas of the Mediterranean, according to the preliminary results of the ACT4LITTER Marine Litter Watch Month. More than one fourth of the twenty two beaches surveyed were...
MIO-ECSDE calls on Barcelona Convention Contracting Parties to step up efforts to meet SDG14 targets
The deliberations of the 20th Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP20) spanned over four days from 17-20 December 2017 in Tirana, Albania. More than 150 delegates from the 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Union that are parties...
SDG14 and Marine Litter: what progress has been made in the Mediterranean?
The marine litter threat in the Mediterranean and the ongoing concrete efforts to reduce its adverse effects towards good environmental status in the coastal and marine environment were in focus at the Barcelona Convention COP20 side event organized by MIO-ECSDE....
Pollution of the marine environment: Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas managers gather in Izola to talk about solutions
Some 120 MPA managers and other stakeholders from all shores of the Mediterranean came together at the mid-term conference of the ACT4LITTER project, an Interreg Med Programme project funded by the European Union that aims to facilitate efforts for tackling marine litter…
New COMPSUD Board launches its next biennium in Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus hosted the 12th Meeting of the Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD[1]), where on Wednesday the 22nd of November, the new Board of the Circle was elected…