Environment fact sheet

European Commission Directorate-General For The Environment

Description

Protecting and conserving the marine environment
Environment policy and protection of the environment
Target audience: General public

Sujets

• Environmental movement
• Conservation (ethic)
• Ocean
• Sciences et techniques

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-ENVIRONMENT
• Nombre de lectures: 22
• Langue: English

Extrait

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Environment fact sheet: protecting and conserving the marine environment

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• Wedepend on the seas for our survival. They are also essential for our economic prosper ity, social wellbeing and quality of life. Yet the marine environment is deteriorating fast. We need to find better ways of managing it.

• TheEuropean Commission has adopted a proposal for a strategy that will significantly improve protection of the marine environ ment in Europe. It will expand the knowledge base that informs policymaking. It will use integrated and costeffective measures to ad dress pressures. And it will ensure, through monitoring and assessment, that goals are achieved and that actions bring results.

• Themarine strategy will also form the envir onmental dimension of the wider EU mari time policy now in preparation. This policy is designed to harness all the economic poten tial of our oceans and seas.

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