Mediterranean Sea Pollution Map

These ships mostly sail on heavy fuel oil (hfo) with higher The mediterranean is the largest sea that is not called an ocean. The eastern mediterranean sea is the busiest shipping corridor globally while also holding a reserve of 50 billion barrels of oil and 8 trillion m3 of gas with 350 oil drills in 2005 (carpenter and kostianoy, 2018).

Unep/map is working on the implementation of the roadmap for a proposal for the possible designation of the mediterranean sea, as a whole, as an emission control area for sulphur oxides pursuant to marpol annex vi, within the framework of the barcelona convention”, adopted at cop 21 (naples, italy, 2. Pollution threa ts in the. The environmental pressures and economic impacts are examined and the institutional/legal framework is described together with all the necessary environmental expenditures.

Its highly diverse marine ecosystem hosts around 4 to 18% of the world’s marine biodiversity.

Mediterranean sea highly polluted by toxic chemicals. Publication horizon 2020 mediterranean report the h2020 mediterranean report is a joint effort of the eea and unep/map resulting from the creation of a regular review mechanism of environmental progress in the three h2020 policy priorities. Pollution hot spots along the mediterranean coast. These are municipal waste, urban waste water and industrial pollution.