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MIO-ECSDE’s reflections on COP27: not enough progress as climate change accelerates
After more than two weeks of negotiations, the highly awaited United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) wrapped up on Sunday 20 November, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Representatives from almost 200 countries reached an agreement...
Mediterranean ESD Action Plan towards 2030 adopted at EfE9
MIO-ECSDE/MEdIES, supported the co-organistion of a High-Level Event of Education and Environment Ministers on the Mediterranean Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development and its Action Plan towards 2030 on the 6th of October in the framework of the 9th...
MIO-ECSDE and the 9th ‘Environment for Europe’ Ministerial Conference
MIO-ECSDE participated in this important meeting that was hosted by a country in the Mediterranean, and specifically Cyprus. Furthermore, MIO-ECSDE supported the Government of Cyprus and specifically the Pedagogical Institute of the Ministry of Education, Sports and...
Plastic Busters goes to Tunisia to further advance knowledge transfer on marine plastic pollution monitoring and mitigation
Some 40 participants from 6 Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia) came together at a hands-on training workshop organized within the ENI CBC Plastic Busters CAP project that seeks to create the enabling conditions for a societal...
SOS-ZEROPOL2030 kicks off with MIO-ECSDE as partner towards Achieving Zero Pollution in European Seas
Marine contamination occurs as a direct result of human activities taking place on land and at sea and requires our urgent attention as healthy and clean seas are critical for our survival and wellbeing. The implementation of processes and measures to reduce marine...
MIO-ECSDE kick-starts a community-based research project on marine litter in the Asterousia Biosphere Reserve, Crete
The Asterousia Mountain Range Biosphere Reserve, located in the southernmost area of Europe with a long coast and wide marine zone in the Southern Cretan / Libyan Sea, is characterized by an exceptional wealth of habitats and species. Just as other biosphere reserves...