Ricardo Serrão Santos MEP
Vice-chair of the Intergroups on “Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development" and “Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas"
&
IUCN European Regional Office

Are please to invite you to the event:

Marine Plastics Need European Action

8 November 2017, 18.00 - 20.00
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Room A5E-2

Plastic waste is increasingly impacting the marine environment and becoming one of the most challenging issues for global and European marine and coastal species and ecosystems. Growing scientific evidence and an increase in public awareness on the sources of plastic waste and their impacts on marine and coastal environments, demonstrates the need for more action at European level.

In December 2015, the European Commission adopted an EU Action Plan for Circular Economy. In an effort to tackle the issue of marine plastic litter, the European Commission has planned to launch its Strategy on Plastics by the end of this year.

The event aims to support an ambitious European Strategy on Plastics that takes action to fulfill the objective of significantly reducing marine litter. An IUCN report on existing national and sub-national policies tackling this issue in EU Member States, including recommendations in reducing marine litter in Europe, will be launched during the event.

Relevant decision makers and conservationists, including Commissioner Karmenu Vella and Pierre-Yves Cousteau, will participate and contribute to the discussion.