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Plastic Busters MPAs goes to Dubrovnik to further advance its knowledge transferring and capitalization activities
It has been almost 4 years since Plastic Busters MPAs started on its journey to address marine litter in Mediterranean MPAs. and the project has achieved a lot: a first-of-its-kind comprehensive diagnostic analysis of the presence and effects of marine litter in...
Outcomes of the online panel discussion on climate change
On the 21st of September 2021, MIO-ECSDE organized a high-level panel discussion on “Climate Change: the rapidly increasing challenge for the Mediterranean” providing an opportunity for 14 key Mediterranean actors, to voice clear messages on how the Mediterranean...
European Parliament Intergroup and MIO-ECSDE call for re-visiting the odour pollution regulatory challenge
Member of the European Parliament (EP), Maria Spyraki, Co-chair of the EP Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’ is hosting a web conference on “Revisiting Odour Pollution in Europe” on October 28th. This European Parliament...
UfM Member States reassert their ambition to tackle climate and environmental challenges. But is it ambitious enough?
Just a few weeks ahead of COP 26 and at the start of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, on October 4th 2021, the much anticipated 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Action took place in a hybrid format in Cairo, hosted by Egypt, under the...
D-NOSES closing conference: wrapping up 3 years of new knowledge on managing odour pollution
The D-NOSES journey, in which MIO-ECSDE was the advocacy partner, comes to an end in September 2021 after a full 3 years. This initiative was born from the lack of a unified proper response to odour issues and the need to fill in this perceived regulatory gap. It was...
Marine LitterWatch Month is here again, an opportunity to take action against marine litter
It’s Marine LitterWatch Month for the 8th consecutive year and its success story builds on the joint efforts of the Marine LitterWatch communities. MIO-ECSDE is a part of this ‘taskforce’ towards providing reliable, accurate and comparable marine litter data for all...