Authoritative science [1] agrees that global and regional targets for conserving biodiversity cannot be met by current trajectories; the goals for 2030 and beyond will only be achieved through transformative changes towards sustainability affecting our economic, social, political, and technological realities. As the Global assessment by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) [2] explains ”transformative changes refer …
Welcomed by the European Topic Centre (ETC-UMA) and the Institute of Geomorphology and Soil (IGS) in Malaga, a team of 15 climate detective students from the IES Mayorazgo Secondary School came to the Ada Byron Research facilities of the University of Malaga on 11 March 2020 to find out more about our climate, how to understand it and what can …
ETC-UMA, 17 January 2020, Malaga – As the global production of plastics has grown exponentially since 1960s, huge quantities of marine litter can now be found in our oceans and seas. The Mediterranean Sea is not an exception. Despite the efforts to generate evidence on the quantity and type of litter present on beaches and in the sea – floating …
Featuring the contribution of ETC-UMA as part of ETC-ULS, the European Environment Agency has published today ‘The European environment — state and outlook 2020’ report #SOER2020. Overall environmental trends in Europe have not improved since the last EEA state of the environment report in 2015. The assessment notes that while most of the 2020 targets will not be achieved, especially …
Research efforts on marine litter are increasing our knowledge on the amount, composition and impacts on marine ecosystems, biodiversity and people. However, the number of studies is scattered and geographically unbalanced, making it difficult for policy makers, managers, the business sector and the general public to accurately understand the dimensions of such a modern challenge and the urgency to react. …
The city of Malaga welcomed, 14-16 October 2019, an international three-days event on Biodiversity protection and management, gathering around 100 Mediterranean representatives to debate on effective collaboration mechanisms for more integrated management of our natural resources. Co-funded by the EU programme Interreg Med and led by the European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga, the PANACeA project has been …
BACKGROUND The Interreg Med Biodiversity Protection Community featured by the PANACeA project is organizing a three-day encounter to share and celebrate the three years of collaborative workachieved by this community to safeguard mechanisms and tools that support a more effective management of biodiversity and ensure proper ecosystem functions across the Mediterranean. The event will include various activities related to the …
Enhanced wetland monitoring, assessment and indicators to support European and global environmental policy is the title of the new report led by ETC-UMA in the framework of the SWOS project, a European Union funded project under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The 2019 report identifies the links between the Horizon 2020 Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service (SWOS) …
In the framework of the on-going collaboration between the Interreg Med Biodiversity Protection Community led by European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA) and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfMS), a new report has been released with the main recommendations stemming from the joint workshop focused on marine plastic litter and climate change and ecosystem-based …
With an ecosystem based approach to marine and terrestrial biodiversity protection and management, the ETC-UMA has been working hard with the organization of several events across the Mediterranean, including our latest workshop and public hearing at the European Parliament on 4 and 5 December 2018 and the preparations for our new biodiversity protection knowledge platform. Moreover, we have been extremely …
