ENSERES project presents their actions to preserve biodiversty and fight against marine litter at the Mediterranean Pavillion at COP27 in Egypt

Biodiversity is inherently linked to climate change; species and ecosystems need to absorb the impacts and react together to cumulative pressures caused by human activity such as overexploitation of natural resources and pollution. Building resilience based on decisions having science at the base will allow biodiversity to continue to provide ecosystem services at coastal and offshore regions while decreasing societal vulnerability to their impacts.

This event will help showcase the lessons learned by recent EU funded Mediterranean initiatives linking research, management and policy making towards a better integration of ecological and biodiversity conservation aspects into monitoring, management practices and policy measures in a biodiversity and climate change hotspot region. Emphasis will be put on the need for better coordination across geographical scales and among sectors in a common ecosystem shared by more than 20 countries. This hybrid event, featuring partners in the ENI CBC MED project ENSERES, aims to:

• Showcase key processes and tools related to marine litter and biodiversity science and monitoring at Mediterranean level;
• Present policy efforts to address litter from the source, production, use, management and disposal perspectives.
• Discuss good transferable practices and success stories across the region in coastal areas where knowledge is uneven and multiple users need to co-exist.
• Identify opportunities for wider and strengthened regional collaboration and transformative changes for integrated and adaptive solutions at Mediterranean level.

You can attend online on 16 November from 12:30 to 13:30 hrs (Egypt time) by clicking here or here.

The agenda and related materials can be found here.