- Online event: Tipping points, extreme events and uncertainty: How can studying the Arctic help us predict future European climate beyond the mean?
- Online event: The future of our oceans: Towards a new vision for global fisheries & aquaculture
- Online event: Food waste collections and the unintended consequences of plastic contamination to soil
- Online event: Addressing methane emissions from oil & gas towards reaching the Paris Agreement targets
- Online event: 90 minutes for discovering the EU Overseas: BEST innovative & key partners of the EU Biodiversity strategy
- Online event: Integrating science into the EU Green Deal
- Online event : Initial reactions by key stakeholders to the Farm-to-Fork & EU Biodiversity Strategies
- Online event : A circular economy at the heart of climate action: how materials connect the dots in the EU Green Deal
- Online event : Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: How can we enhance safety & competitiveness?
- Online event : An ambitious Green Recovery Plan – ensuring green investments delivering climate neutrality
EBCD is an environmental NGO that promotes the sustainable use of natural renewable resources in Europe and worldwide
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 in the face of Climate change
Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, WWF has developed an analytical report on the EU’s progress to achieve the ten targets of SDG14. The event “Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 in the face of Climate change” focused on the successful bottom-up approach of Atlantic fishers to protect their …
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: towards the last round of negotiations
The negotiations for an international treaty on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) are now approaching the fourth and last session. During the third round of negotiations in New York City in August 2019, progress was made in advancing the draft text of the treaty. In particular, the …
Convention on Biological Diversity: Regional Workshop to facilitate the Description of EBSAs in the North-East Atlantic Ocean
The Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the North-East Atlantic Ocean and Training Session on EBSAs took place in Stockholm, 23-27 September 2019. The Workshop was hosted by the Government of Sweden and organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological …
Convention on Biological Diversity: Thematic Workshop on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
On 11-15 November 2019, the Fisheries Expert Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN-CEM-FEG) participated in the Thematic Workshop on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and the two-day event Advancing Ocean Action Towards Sustainable Development Goal 14, both held in Montreal, Canada. The …
COP 25 – Fisheries and Ocean Summary
The Ocean is a carbon sink: of the three places where carbon is stored—atmosphere, oceans, and land biosphere—approximately 93 percent of the CO2 is found in the oceans. Since 2009, it has absorbed 22% of CO2, and absorbed 90% of excess heat since pre-industrial years. It is fair to say …
Towards implementation of OECMs in the Marine Capture Fishery Sector
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published the Report of the Expert Meeting on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Marine Capture Fishery Sector held in Rome, 7-10 May 2019. The meeting, which aimed to catalyze and consolidate expert advice on the identification and establishment of OECMs in …