The International Center for Comparative Environmental Law is organizing a webinar for the Mediterranean Coast Day
The International Center for Comparative Environmental Law is organizing a webinar for the Mediterranean Coast Day

Despite its immensely rich biodiversity, the Mediterranean is now  the most polluted sea in the world. Plastic p...

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Only two more weeks to go untill our annual Mediterraean Coast Day celebration!
Only two more weeks to go untill our annual Mediterraean Coast Day celebration!

As every year since 2007, we are getting ready to happily celebrate the Mediterranean Coast Day. As last year, due to...

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Join us in marking Mediterranean Coast Day 2021
Join us in marking Mediterranean Coast Day 2021

In less than a month we are going to celebrate the Mediterranean Coast Day, and prepar...

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Coast Day History

The Coast Day serves also to promote the integrated coastal zone  management (ICZM) as the optimal policy framework for achieving  sustainable development of coastal areas. The Protocol on ICZM in the  Mediterranean was signed in Madrid in 2008 by the Contracting Parties to  the Barcelona Convention. 10 years later, it was ratified by 11  countries and the EU. This Protocol is unique in the world in providing  legal support to securing sustainable development of coastal areas.

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