DECISION OF THE MEETING - Nineteenth Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols; UNEP/MAP Mid-Term Strategy 2016-2021

Adopt the Mid-Term Strategy to 2021 for a healthy Mediterranean. It is constructed in Core Themes (Land and sea based pollution, Biodiversity and ecosystems and Land and sea interactions and processes) and Cross-cutting Themes (Integrated coastal zone management, Sustainable consumption and production, Climate change adaptation); Request the Secretariat to maximize efforts for its implementation, to prepare a new, comprehensive Resource Mobilization Strategy, to monitor and report on the MTS implementation and to launch an independent evaluation of the MTS implementation in 2020.