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4Pictures4Mediterranean International Photo Contest: Take part until December 31, 2020
The MPA Engage project has launched the first edition of ‘4 Pictures 4 Mediterranean', a photo competition hosted by Instagram that aims to bring to light the human impacts on the fragile marine ecosystems and the stories of managers and citizens involved in their...
Marine LitterWatch Month is here again, an opportunity to take action against marine litter
It’s Marine LitterWatch Month for the 7th 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...
Europe adopts a threshold value for marine litter on coastlines and steps up its efforts towards litter-free coasts and seas
Today, the European Commission published a threshold value for marine litter on coastlines, paving the way for litter-free coasts and seas. EU Member States’ experts have unanimously agreed that a beach will need to have less than 20 litter items for every 100 metres...
Take part and help shape the post-2020 UfM Environment and Climate Action!
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) launched an On-line Stakeholders Consultation aiming at compiling inputs and suggestions, from Mediterranean and other stakeholders, as part of the process leading to the 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate...
MIO-ECSDE in the Steering Committee of the 4th Mediterranean Water Forum
Launching the preparations for the 4th Mediterranean Water Forum, tentatively planned to take place in Malta on 11-13 November 2020, the 1st Steering Committee Meeting was held via video conference on 21 April 2020. MIO-ECSDE, along with the other Steering Group...
MIO-ECSDE contributes to the UfM online consultation on Blue Economy
In a Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) online consultation that took place from 11-25 March 2020, MIO-ECSDE and 100 more entities, including research centers and universities, public administrations, the private sector, international organizations and non-governmental...