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MED News newsletter (July 2021)
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According to SoED, rising inequality, biodiversity loss, the growing impact of climate change and unrelenting pressure on natural resources can lead to irreversible environmental damage in the Mediterranean basin. The region is not on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unless urgent and resolute action is taken to halt current trends, environmental degradation could have serious and lasting consequences for human health and livelihoods in the region.
With only one decade remaining for the implementation of the SDGs, the COVID-19 epidemic has compounded the challenges that the country must overcome to fulfill the promise that the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development represents to the Tunisian population of 11.69 million, a quarter of which are under fifteen years of age.
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The “contribution of the environmental dimension of sustainable development to building a resilient and inclusive post-pandemic world” was discussed by delegates taking part in the Leadership Dialogues during the Fifth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5).
Mr. Gaetano Leone, Coordinator of UNEP/MAP-Barcelona Convention Secretariat, made the following (pre-recorded) statement.
Ladies and gentlemen,
In spring last year, the UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan-Barcelona Convention Secretariat set about determining how assets available within the MAP system could be used to support the regional response to COVID-19.
We framed our contribution in two main strands.
The first involved staying the course on strengthening the normative environmental protection framework within the context of Agenda 2030.
Lefteris Arapakis comes from a long line of fishers. For five generations his family has plied the bountiful waters off southern Greece, netting the same cod and red mulls that have sustained Greeks for millennia.
But in recent years, overfishing and pollution, especially discarded plastic, have hammered Greece’s fisheries, with catches in the Mediterranean Sea falling as much as 34 per cent in the last 50 years.
Out at sea, Arapakis, 26, noticed many boats around his hometown of Piraeus hauling in nets filled with rubbish, instead of fish. This plastic by-catch was then simply dumped back into the water.
“I got more and more worried about the scarcity of fish and the increase of plastic,” says Arapakis, who trained as an economist. “I was deeply concerned that my father, and now my brothers, could not make a living out of this job, which is what they learned to do and what they love to do.”
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