UN Environment MAP MEDPOL Marine Litter Monitoring Activities

SWIM H2020 SM Regional Training on Marine Litter Monitoring Athens, Greece, 25 October 2018

Jelena Knezevic, Christos IoakeimidisMediterranean Pollution Assessment and Control Programme (MED POL)UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan, Barcelona Convention

Outline of the Presentation

1. Integrated Monitoring and Assessment (IMAP – EO10).

Three Common Indicators on Marine Litter

2. IMAP Guidance fact sheets

3. Meta Data reporting templates on marine litter

4. Assessment: 2017 Mediterranean Quality Status Report (QSR).

5. Baseline and reference values at regional level

6. Marine Litter reduction target

7. National Implementation of IMAP

a) National marine litter monitoring programme

b) Capacity building ( ECAP MED II), ML MED, H2020

c) First delivery of data from pilot projects5. Develop Candidate Indicator 24:

a. Defining most representative species for IMAP Candidate Indicator 24;b. Training session for sharing technical skills on marine litter ingestion by

sea turtles;c. A specific Protocol on monitoring amounts of litter ingested by or

entangling selected species has been developed to harmonize methods and data collection.

Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Mediterranean: Key Milestones

Decision IG.21/3: Ecosystems

Approach including GES

definitions

COP 18, 2015Decision IG.22/7:

2017 MED QSR endorsed

2023 MED QSR:

way forward

Decision IG 19/6

ECAP RoadMAP

COP 17, 2015

Decision IG 21/10

IMAP:

COP 19, 2016

Decision IG 21/1

MAP Mid-Term Strategy:

2016-2021, COP 19

Decision IG 22/14: 2018–2019

POW,

COP 20, 2017

IMAP_2017_eng.pdfIMAP_2017_eng.pdf

Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Mediterranean: Key Milestones

Ecological Objective 10: Marine Litter Common Indicator 22: Trends in the amount of

litter washed ashore and/or deposited on coastlines (including analysis of its composition, spatial distribution and, where possible, source);

Common Indicator 23: Trends in the amount of litter in the water column including microplastics and on the seafloor; and

Candidate Indicator 24: Trends in the amount of litter ingested by or entangling marine organisms, especially mammals, marine birds and turtles.

Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Mediterranean: Marine Litter

IMAP Guidance Fact SheetsPollution and Marine Litter (WG.439/12)

IMAP Guidance Factsheets: Marine Litter CI22

IMAP Guidance Factsheets: Marine Litter CI23 Seafloor Marine Litter

IMAP Guidance Factsheets: Marine Litter CI23 Floating Marine Litter

Meta Data Templates: Pollution and Marine Litter (WG.439/14)

CORMON on Marine Litter Monitoring (Madrid, Spain, 28 Feb. – 2 Mar. 2017) reviewed a proposal by MED POL on the main elements to build data and metadata reporting on Marine Litter in the Mediterranean.

MEDPOL Focal Points Meeting (Rome, Italy, May 2017) reviewed and approved the amended versions.

Agreed Meta Data Templates for i) Beach Marine Litter, and ii) Seafloor Marine Litter;

Floating Marine Litter and Microplastics will be developed during the 2018 – 2019 biennium.

Meta Data Templates: Marine Litter (WG.439/14)

Marine Litter Meta Data Templates: Beach Marine Litter

Beach Marine Litter:

Meta Data Templates: Marine Litter (WG.439/14)

Seafloor Marine Litter:

Meta Data Templates: Marine Litter (WG.439/14)

Assessment: a key component of MAP system to support policy making and implementation

2017MEDQSR

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Assessment: a key component of MAP system to support policy making and implementation

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Assessment of Marine Litter in the Mediterranean

The 2017 Mediterranean Quality Status Report

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From 2017 MED QSR to 2023 MED: Key steps and lessons learned

Decision IG.23/6 (COP 20, Tirana, Albania, 17-20 December 2017)

IMAP implemented at national; where applicable sub-regional level;

Towards the Fully Data-Based 2023 MED QSR

MED QSR 2023 Roadmap, including better linkages pressures/impact/states

Mediterranean 2017 Quality Status Report

https://www.medqsr.org

From 2017 MED QSR to 2023 MED: Key steps and lessons learned

Implementation of the IMAP at national and where applicable sub-regional level:

• New data are required deriving from the implementation of the updated integrated national monitoring and assessment programmes;

• Improve regular reporting to a fully-fledged and operational IMAP Info System ;

• Ensure sufficient resources to contribute to the preparation of the 2023 MED QSR;

Towards the Fully Data-Based 2023 MED QSR:

• Follow-up on the proposed general, biodiversity, coast and hydrography, and pollution and marine litter directions.

Marine Litter Baseline Values(Decision IG.22/10 – Annex III)

Marine Litter EcAp

Indicators Minimum Value Maximum Value Mean Value Proposed Baseline

Beaches

(items / 100m)

Common Indicator 22

11 3,600 920 450 – 1,400

Floating Litter

(items / km2)

Common Indicator 23

0 195 3.9 3 – 5

Sea Floor Litter

(items / km2)

Common Indicator 23

0 7,700 179 130 - 230

Micro-plastics

(items / km2)

Common Indicator 23

- 4,860,000 340,000 200,000 – 500,000

Sea Turtles

Candidate Indicator 24

Affected turtles (%)

Ingested litter (gr)

14%

0

92.5%

14

45.9%

1.37

40 – 60%

1 -3

Marine Litter Environmental Targets(Decision IG.22/10 – Annex III)

Marine Litter EcAp

Indicators Type of Target Minimum Maximum Reduction Targets Remarks

Beaches

(Common Indicator 22) % decrease significant 30 20% by 2024

not 100% marine

pollution

Floating Litter

(Common Indicator 23) % decrease - -

Statistically

Significant

sources are difficult to

control

(trans border

movements)

Sea Floor Litter

(Common Indicator 23) % decrease stable 10% in 5 years

Statistically

Significant

15% in 15 years is

possible

Micro-plastics

(Common Indicator 23) % decrease - -

Statistically

Significant

sources are difficult to

control

(trans border

movements)

Ingested Litter

(Candidate Common

Indicator 24)

Movements of litter

and

Animals to be

considered

Number of turtles with

ingested litter (%)

Amount of ingested

litter

% decrease in the rate

of affected animals

% decrease in quantity

of ingested weight(g)

Statistically

Significant

Statistically

Significant

@ Libya 2018 (EGA)

@ Egypt 2018 (EEAA)

National Implementation of IMAP

National Implementation of IMAP

3 pollution workshops and progress on regional level: 24 new/updated pollution assessment criteria:

- Morocco (Rabat, 19-21 Feb. 2018);- Egypt (Alexandria, 26-28 Feb. 2018);- Tunisia (Tunis, 12-15 March 2018).

“Defining the most representative species for IMAP Candidate Indicator 24” (ENG/FRE) (WG.452/Inf.4);

A training session for sharing technical skills on marine litter ingestion by sea turtles was successfully organized in Portici, Naples on 6 July 2017 (Cooperation with INDICIT project);

A French-speaking training session will be organized in Monastir, Tunisia (1-2 November 2018) where sea turtle experts from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon will participate;

A specific Protocol on monitoring the amount of litter ingested by or entangling the selected species to harmonize methods and data collection has been developed (ENG/FRE).

Development of the Candidate Indicator 24

Within the framework of Assessment of available data to propose GES Targets with regards to the amounts of litter ingested by or entangling the sea turtles, a specific questionnaire has been prepared and disseminated through the SPA/RAC focal points and the Med Marine turtles specialists Network.

The first draft of the assessment, the review of which is ongoing, was prepared based on the questionnaire.

An agreement will be done with the Marine Turtles rescue centers of Tunisia and Lebanon in order to implement the specific protocol on monitoring the amount of litter ingested by or entangling by sea turtles.

SPA/RAC will define the executing phases for the preparation of an operational strategy for monitoring the IMAP Candidate Indicator 24, which is planned for the end of 2018.

Development of the Candidate Indicator 24

EcAp – InfoMAP service development

Information standard &

DD download

CPs

Monitoring data

compliant with IS upload

Monitoring data QA/QC validation

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Thank you

Christos Ioakeimidis

Marine Litter Expert

Mediterranean Pollution Assessment and Control Programme (MED POL)

UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan

Barcelona Convention Secretariat

christos.ioakeimidis@un.org

http://web.unep.org/unepmap/

Mediterranean Action Plan Coordinating Unit Barcelona Convention Secretariat