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Join the Marine Litter Watch to track marine litter!
Each year an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the world’s oceans. That’s the ′equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world′. Are you concerned with the litter building up in our coasts and seas? Then take...
Decisions going forth to Environmental Ministers at COP21
UNEP/MAP Focal Points met in Athens on 10-13 September 2019 to examine measures on curbing pollution, protecting biodiversity and stimulating blue growth in the Mediterranean region. MIO-ECSDE, attended as it does every two years the Focal Points meet, a few months...
MIO-ECSDE joins civil society ocean call asking the G7 leaders to act!
Leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, comprising the Group of 7 (G7), convened in Biarritz (France) from 24-26 August 2019, under the French presidency, to discuss among other issues climate change, biodiversity and oceans. Specifically,...
2019 Summer University on Protected Areas and Biosphere Reserves takes place in Bulgaria
MIO-ECSDE, through its long-standing educational initiative MEdIES, co-organised and scientifically supervised the 5th in a series of Summer Universities that have been (co)organised by MIO-ECSDE in Amfissa (2014), Samothraki (2016), Sardinia (2017) and Parnon (2018)...
MSESD 2019 status check: advances, lessons learned and outlook
Some 80 participants from 20 Euro-Mediterranean countries converged to the city of Heraklion in Crete over three days (24-26 June) to report on the region’s collective progress and share the valuable lessons learned in implementing the Action Plan of the Mediterranean...
The Drin Strategic Action Programme: a stepping stone towards the sustainable future of the Drin River Basin
Significant advances towards safeguarding the Drin River Basin were discussed at the 17th Drin Core Group meeting organized in Pristina from the 30th to the 31st of May 2019. The Drin River Basin is beyond any doubt one of the most important freshwater biodiversity...