Cyprus will host in a few days one of the biggest high level conferences to be ever organized in the Mediterranean region, the 9th Ministerial Conference on the Environment for Europe of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). This is a huge challenge and honour for Cyprus which will gather together between […]
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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Story by: Constantinos Alexandropoulos of Cyprus News Agency The successful partnership in autumn and winter 2021 of ten tourist accommodation establishments from Cyprus, Greece and Malta with the partners of the project “Reducing the Consumption and Disposal of Single-use Plastics in the Tourism Industry in Cyprus, Greece and Malta”, also known as SUPMed, was announced
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A major international conference on 19 and 20 May gathered in Rome authorities and experts, voices of formal, non-formal and informal education and communication organisations from Italy and the world. The Carabinieri’s Forestry, Environmental and Agri-Food Units Command (CUFAA) in cooperation with the World Environment Education Network (WECC) organised this relevant event that aims to
Romeo Mikičić has been fishing in the azure waters of the Adriatic Sea for more than 40 years.The father of two is passionate about the sea and comes from generations of fishers who lived on the island of Cres, one of more than a thousand islands in the Republic of Croatia that depend on fishing.
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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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A total of 51% of plastic packaging waste generated in Cyprus in 2019 were recycled, compared to 41% in the EU average, according to data published by Eurostat. In 2019, each person living in the EU generated 34.4 kg of plastic packaging waste, out of which 14.1 kg was recycled. Between 2009 and 2019, the
The basic message of the 2nd international conference on climate crisis that took place in Cyprus last week is clear: The region of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) needs to work together on three great themes, Professor Jeffrey Sachs told the Cyprus News Agency. Professor Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable
(Story edited by Emilia Christofi-CNA) Cyprus is determined to take all necessary steps at a national level to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, said on Wednesday President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, who pointed out the objectives of the Action Plan, which is an initiative of the Cyprus government to
Staff from the Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre and members of the Republic of Cyprus Game and Fauna Service, have this week released four protected bird species back into the wild after they were successfully rehabilitated. A press release circulated on Wednesday by the British Bases in Cyprus says that the birds – a Honey
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