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Plastic Busters goes to Tunisia to further advance knowledge transfer on marine plastic pollution monitoring and mitigation
Some 40 participants from 6 Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia) came together at a hands-on training workshop organized within the ENI CBC Plastic Busters CAP project that seeks to create the enabling conditions for a societal...
SOS-ZEROPOL2030 kicks off with MIO-ECSDE as partner towards Achieving Zero Pollution in European Seas
Marine contamination occurs as a direct result of human activities taking place on land and at sea and requires our urgent attention as healthy and clean seas are critical for our survival and wellbeing. The implementation of processes and measures to reduce marine...
MIO-ECSDE kick-starts a community-based research project on marine litter in the Asterousia Biosphere Reserve, Crete
The Asterousia Mountain Range Biosphere Reserve, located in the southernmost area of Europe with a long coast and wide marine zone in the Southern Cretan / Libyan Sea, is characterized by an exceptional wealth of habitats and species. Just as other biosphere reserves...
Switching to more sustainable Μediterranean food systems and waste management governance: MIO-ECSDE’s endeavors
Food loss and waste management are both issues of particular relevance for the Mediterranean region, given its fragile food security, pressures on biodiversity, resources scarcity and prevailingly unsustainable consumption and production patterns. Reducing food loss...
MPA Engage recap: towards a Mediterranean network of resilient to climate change MPAs
After 3 full years, the journey of the Interreg Med funded project of MPA Engage comes to an end. Within this intense, yet inspiring, period, MPA Engage has provided essential support to managers of marine protected areas to fast-track actions against climate change,...
MIO-ECSDE’S policy paper on the Mediterranean’s transition to wind energy that avoids damaging the environment
Curbing climate change and reversing biodiversity decline are two of the greatest challenges modern societies face, and both are particularly relevant to the Mediterranean: a biodiversity hotspot which is more subject to global warming than others. In parallel, the...