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Attending ICYMARE: A platform for Early Career Researchers
 Research Associate Linda Del Savio from the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) attended The International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE) to re[...] Read more
Date: 04 October 2024
SOS-ZEROPOL2030 at the Black Sea Stakeholder Conference 2024
 The Black Sea NGO Network recently represented SOS-ZEROPOL2030 at the Black Sea Stakeholder Conference. Aleksandar Shivarov was invited to present at the event, co-organised by the European Commision,[...] Read more
Date: 20 September 2024
Blog: Joining sister SCENARIOS project workshop on PFAS remediation
 As part of the SOS-ZEROPOL2030 initiative, Dr. Thomais Vlachogianni, Senior Programme/Policy Officer at MIO-ECSDE and leader of the project’s work package on zero pollution acceleration, had the[...] Read more
Date: 10 September 2024
Editorial second annual newsletter
 Dear reader,  Welcome to our second annual SOS-ZEROPOL2030 newsletter! We have a jam-packed newsletter for you with updates from the past year. Our consortium has not sat still since we gathered in P[...] Read more
Date: 28 August 2024
Blog: Science and policy engage at 34th SETAC Europe
 In May, the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe 2024) took place in Seville, Spain. The SOS-ZEROPOL2030 project was wel represented at SETAC 2024[...] Read more
Date: 18 July 2024
Blog: Tyre Wear Particles and the Global Plastics Treaty
 Members of the SOS-ZEROPOL2030 project team, Emily Cowan and Rachel Tiller of SINTEF, attended the Fourth Session of Negotiations on a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution in Canada (INC-4), where they wor[...] Read more
Date: 27 June 2024
Second Living Lab focuses on strategies for better governance of PFAS
 Hosted by partner Black Sea NGO Network, the workshop called ‘Designing strategies for better governance of persistent chemicals in the Black Sea basin’, brought together stakeholders from several[...] Read more
Date: 03 June 2024
SOS-ZEROPOL2030 organised its first living lab
 This stakeholder event brought together expert stakeholders representing hospitals, industries, water authorities, research institutes, government bodies, and NGOs to collectively explore how we can w[...] Read more
Date: 23 May 2024
New report: The EU Governance Landscape For Zero Marine Pollution
 This report is the second deliverable coming out of Work Package 2, which looks at the building blocks for zero pollution governance and provides an overview of Zero Pollution governance in the EU. Th[...] Read more
Date: 18 December 2023
Second General Assembly strengthens collaboration and partnership
 The second general assembly for the SOS-ZEROPOL2030 project took place in October 2023. The meeting brought together the project consortium of 10 European institutions across 8 countries with expertis[...] Read more
Date: 01 November 2023
Blog: International Workshop on Marine Debris and Microplastic Pollution
 By Andy Booth, Chief Scientist at SINTEF Ocean   From 29th – 31st May 2023, an International Workshop on Marine Debris and Microplastic Pollution took place in Thiruvananthapuram in the Indian [...] Read more
Date: 17 August 2023
Blog: Brief from the Second Session of Negotiations (INC-2) on a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
 By: Emily Cowan, researcher at SINTEF Ocean “When we listen to nature and we act, we can make progress” – Victor Hugo Between May 29th – June 2nd, 2023 – in the heart of Paris, a[...] Read more
Date: 29 June 2023
D2.1 The EU Zero Pollution Ambition report SOS-ZEROPOL2030
 Our new report ‘The EU Zero Pollution Ambition’ is now out, providing an extensive overview of the policy documents and legislation that make up the environmental pollution framework in Eu[...] Read more
Date: 23 March 2023
EU funded project Source to Seas kicks off
 Marine contamination and pollution occur as a direct result of human activities on both land and in the marine environment. Instances of marine pollution require urgent attention as healthy and clean [...] Read more
Date: 24 September 2022