COVID-19 – An opportunity for nature and people to reunite in business
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 ...
European Space Agency´s Climate Detectives in Malaga
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 ...
Mediterranean biodiversity interactions with marine litter: New knowledge base
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 ...
ETC-UMA contribution to the SOER 2020: How is our landscape mosaic doing?
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 ...
MedBioLitter: an open database on marine litter and biodiversity science
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 ...
Malaga takes the pulse for transformative changes to protect Mediterranean ecosystems
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 ...
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: “A pulse for transformative changes in the Mediterranean Sea” (PANACeA Event). 14-16 October 2019, Malaga – Spain
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 ...
Mainstreaming Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Tools into National Initiatives
ETC - UMA and MedCities with the support of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of Spain (MITECO) brought together over 40 key national actors to uptake the results of INTERREG MED Biodiversity Protection Community projects. Periodic and practical face - ...
Coordinated policies to safeguard wetland ecosystems urgently needed
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 ...
Mediterranean ecosystem-based management calls for private sector involvement
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 ...
