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Advancing Decarbonization In Eastern Mediterranean Shipping
METAVASEA Wave 1 Survey results The region’s shipping community is increasingly aware of the need to cut emissions and is taking steps towards decarbonization. While progress is uneven, responses from shipping companies, ports, suppliers, and civil society point to...
Over 170 Mediterranean Stakeholders Meet in Cairo to Drive Behavioural Change on Environment and Climate
The Mediterranean Stakeholder Forum on Environment and Climate Action – “Making the Behavioural Shift Happen: NGOs/CSOs, Parliamentarians, Journalists, Women and Youth Organisations, and Other Actors Meet in Cairo” successfully took place over 2,5 days from 21–23...
MIO-ECSDE Highlights Good Governance, Nexus Solutions, and Youth Engagement at COP24 of the Barcelona Convention
The 24th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP24) to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols (Barcelona Convention) concluded in Cairo on the 5th of December, after four intense...
Zero Pollution Parliament: From Business-as-Usual to Bold, Shared Responsibility
Fifty stakeholders from across all European Regional Seas convened in Brussels for the Zero Pollution Parliament, sending a clear signal: business-as-usual is no longer an option. Two Futures, One Choice The discussions contrasted two possible pathways for marine...
FOLOU Twinning Regions meet in Barcelona to boost food-loss prevention in primary production
MIO-ECSDE was delighted to actively contribute to the first in-person workshop of the FOLOU Twinning Regions Programme (TWRP), held in Barcelona on 4–5 November 2025. The gathering marked an important milestone in the joint effort to replicate and scale up FOLOU tools...
MIRAMAR Advances Regional Cooperation to Tackle Cumulative Marine Stressors: Project Meeting Held Back-to-Back with Mediterranean Regional Event
The Mediterranean Sea’s unique biodiversity is under mounting pressure from multiple environmental stressors - legacy and emerging contaminants, marine litter, underwater noise, light pollution, invasive species, and widespread habitat degradation- all accelerating...