Stronger joint efforts needed to achieve cleaner Mediterranean

The EEA and UNEP/MAP have recently published their joint report ‘Towards a cleaner Mediterranean Sea: a decade of progress’ which takes stock of the progress achieved and challenges ahead in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Horizon 2020 initiative for a cleaner Mediterranean (H2020). According to the report, the current interventions are effective in keeping up with increasing environmental pressures but their scale may not be enough to improve the environmental status of the Mediterranean. This main message is consistent with the findings of the ‘State of the Environment and Development in the Mediterranean report’ that will soon be released by Plan Bleu, a Regional Activity Centre of the UNEP/MAP-Barcelona Convention system. More on https://bit.ly/H2020-AR2