The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a series of events to promote the role of biodiversity conservation for policies related to the productive, energy and financial sectors in the region, in the city of Malaga. Malaga, 26 September, 2022. – From 26 September to 2 October, the IUCN Center …
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – 6 to 18 November 2022 – For the first time in COP’s history, the 27th edition will host a Mediterranean Pavilion. The initiative is conceived to highlight both the urgent challenges the region is currently facing, and the innovative solutions already being developed throughout the Mediterranean, raising awareness on a region overlooked in …
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(Press Release material published by the Cyprus Institute) On Wednesday, 22nd of June 2022, the Cyprus Institute (CyI), the Inter-Academic Group for Development (GID) – an International Association consisting of Academies from Southern Europe and the African continent with the ambition of “mobilizing knowledge in the service of a true Euro-African co-development” – along with …
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18 May 2022.- The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN-Med) and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research present the Deep-sea Atlas of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea – the first collective work to compile the existing knowledge about the deepest waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on the “hidden” biodiversity that it hosts and main threats. …
Sea-level rise will be one of the major climate change-induced risks of the 21st century for coastal areas. According to the Sixth Assessment Report of IPPC released on February 28th 2022, it is virtually certain that global mean sea level will continue to rise over the 21st century. Relative to the period 1995–2014, the likely …
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Climate change is a vital issue for the future for 90% of Cypriots and 50% say that it has affected its everyday life, according to a study by “Friends of the Earth-Cyprus” in cooperation with Eratosthenis Center of Excellence of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). A press release by the University says that the …
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Ministers from the 42 Member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) gathered today in Cairo at the 2nd UfM Ministerial Conference on Environment and Climate action under the Co-Presidency of Jordan and the European Union. They agreed on a common agenda to strengthen efforts in the Euro-Mediterranean region to urgently tackle the multiple climate and …
Mediterranean environmental organizations have joined forces as members of the Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands to urge Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to intervene to prevent the devastation of Corfu’s Erimitis peninsula and its vital wetland habitats through the proposed construction of a tourist resort. This follows a previous letter sent to Mr Mitsotakis in October …
This innovative partnership model aims to respond to the environmental and financing challenges of nature conservation in the Mediterranean. In the context of major global mSeobilizations to protect biodiversity, aiming to support the new objectives to protect the planet and given the many challenges affecting the Mediterranean region (including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and …
The first IUCN Red List assessment of Mediterranean dung beetles compiles the results from an assessment of 200 dung beetle taxa, of which 150 are endemic to the region. This publication states that 20 percent of the species assessed are threatened with extinction, including 21 endemic species. According to a new report from IUCN-Med, dung …