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25th AGM of MIO-ECSDE applauds progress and looks ahead with hope for a face-to-face meeting in 2021
The 25th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of MIO-ECSDE was held on the 22nd of December 2020. This year’s AGM took place via Zoom due to the public health restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The assembled member organisations unanimously approved a series of...
Future perspectives on the role of civil society in the EuroMed region
November 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, one of the most important partnerships of the countries of the Mediterranean. This anniversary came at a time of great disruption in the region, compounded by an unprecedented global health crisis...
NGOs call upon EU decision-makers to adopt an effective restriction of microplastics
It is estimated that between 75,000 and 300,000 tonnes of microplastics are released into the environment each year in the EU, according to the EC report entitled “A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy”. Bearing this in mind, in 2019, upon request...
Results of the on-line UfM Stakeholder Consultation on post-2020 Environment and Climate Action priorities
In view of the upcoming 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Action, scheduled to take place in Egypt, a UfM Online Stakeholder Consultation was launched on the 22nd of July and remained active till the 31st of August 2020. MIO-ECSDE, through the...
Final report on the 14-year long ‘H2020 Initiative for a cleaner Mediterranean’ is out
The ‘Horizon 2020 Initiative’ (2007 - 2020) has been a joint effort to substantially reduce pollution in the Mediterranean by tackling the sources that are said to account for around 80% of the overall pollution of the Mediterranean Sea: municipal solid waste, urban...
MIO-ECSDE endorses declaration on citizen science for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
In its continuous effort to promote participatory science interventions, MIO-ECSDE recently signed on to the Declaration “Our world - our goals: citizen science for the Sustainable Development Goals", a kind of social contract between citizen scientists, academics,...