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Best practices for marine litter reduction in the EU.
(VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015)
CleanSea partners catalogued and evaluated the potential of voluntary institutional
arrangements, understood here as good and best practices, in reducing marine litter in the four
European regional seas. Good practices ...
Policy brief: Best practice examples of existing economic policy instruments and potential new economic policy instruments to reduce marine litter and eliminate barriers to GES. D. 4.13.
(Ecologic Institute for CleanSea Project, Berlin, Germany, 2015)
Marine litter is a complex problem and recognised as a major and growing environmental
concern (UNEP, 2009). It threatens marine ecosystems and biodiversity (e.g. through ingestion
or entanglement by ...
Methodology for Monitoring Marine Litter on Beaches: Macro-Debris (>2.5cm).
(MIO-ECSDE, DeFishGear, Athens, Greece, 2017)
The following methodology has been prepared based on the EU MSFD TG10 “Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas (2013)”, the OSPAR “Guideline for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches in the OSPAR Maritime ...
Testing indicators for biological impacts of microplastics .
(VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016)
The EU is still far from its goal of achieving healthy seas and part of the problem is due to marine litter
(European Commission, 2014). Plastic materials invariably make up the dominant fraction of marine
litter and ...
Marine Debris: Understanding, Preventing and Mitigating the Significant Adverse Impacts on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity.
(Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2016)
Marine debris is recognized as a globally significant stressor on the marine and coastal environment, with impacts
on marine biodiversity having been reported over the last four decades. There are also socioeconomic ...
Overview of available methods to monitor marine plastic litter Incl. method for riverine litter monitoring developed within BLASTIC.
(IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018)
This document is prepared within the BLASTIC project (Plastic waste pathways into the Baltic Sea). The project was supported by EU Interreg Central Baltic (2016-2018). The overall aim is, by mapping and monitoring marine ...
Monitoring and assessment guidelines for marine litter in Mediterranean MPAs. Technical report of the Interreg/ MED/AMARE project.
(Ifremer/AMARE, Bastia, France, 2015)
As part of the AMARE project, the main purpose of this report is to provide advice and practical guidance, for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of marine litter in MPAs. The ...
The MARLISCO Guide for Reducing Marine Litter: Get Inspired and Become Innovative Through Best Practices.
(Isotech Ltd for MARLISCO Project, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014)
This guide does not aim to reinvent the wheel! It is based on a collection of best practices for the reduction of marine
litter recorded from across Europe within the project MARLISCO (www.marlisco.eu). This document ...
Monitoring marine litter impacts on sea turtles. Protocol for the collection of data on ingestion and entanglement in the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta Linnaeus, 1758). Version 1.
(INDICIT Consortium, France, 2018)
The following protocol is intended to respond to the MSFD requirements for the
indicator 10.2.1 “Trends in the amount and composition of litter ingested by marine
animals”. The INDICIT program proposed marine turtles as ...