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Virtual Coast Day 2020 is up and running
Virtual Coast Day 2020 is up and running

We are pleased to inform you that the webpage dedicated specifically to the Coast Day 2020 is on line and accessible...

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Coast Day 2020 Virtual due to Covid-19
Coast Day 2020 Virtual due to Covid-19

It has become tradition in the Mediterranean to celebrate the Coast Day after it had first been organise...

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Coast Day 2019: Celebrating the importance of Mediterranean coastal zones
Coast Day 2019: Celebrating the importance of Mediterranean coastal zones

The 2019 edition of the Coast Day celebration was held  in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, on 25 September 2019....

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Coast Day History

The Coast Day serves 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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