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Animation4Water: a new Mediterranean campaign educates the younger generations on water
A Mediterranean campaign on Water called Animation4Water has been launched to engage the youth and train educators on the threats to water resources and the potential impacts of water-related issues on the health and life of people around the Mediterranean....
COP21 as a ‘game-changer’: important resolutions made in view of the turning point of 2020
After four days of negotiations, panel discussions and side events, the works of the 21st Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP21) to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean (the Barcelona Convention)...
MIO-ECSDE calls on Barcelona Convention Contracting Parties to adopt targeted legislation to phase out single-use plastics
Marine litter in the Mediterranean, in particular marine plastic pollution, and the ongoing concrete efforts to reduce its adverse effects towards good environmental status of the coastal and marine environment were in focus at the Barcelona Convention COP21 side...
MIO-ECSDE among 33 European co-signatories to a position paper on the restriction of microplastics
As set out very clearly and comprehensively in the scientific report prepared by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA), microplastics constitute a serious risk to the environment and a potential risk to human health, a source of exponential pollution that is currently,...
Plastic Busters MPAs actions to combat marine litter featured at an info day held in Athens
More than 80 representatives from Greece of the academic and research community, international organizations, national and local authorities, management bodies of coastal and marine protected areas, the private sector as well as NGOs, came together at the Plastic...
MIO-ECSDE supports MPs to speed up the transposition of the SUPs Directive
On the 30th of October 2019, MIO-ECSDE joined a meeting at the Greek Parliament aimed to inform MPs on the impacts of plastics and single-use plastics (SUPs) on the marine environment and to advance the discussions towards catalysing Greece’s efforts to implement the...