National Recovery and Resilience Plan, National Biodiversity Future Center, Solutions to reverse marine biodiversity loss, and manage marine resources sustainably, Assess and mitigate impacts and threats to marine biodiversity, Zero pollution strategy for biodiversity protection

Pollutants making their way into the seas and oceans, like plastic and associated chemicals, are extremely detrimental for marine biodiversity and ecosystems and are predicted to nearly double in the next decade. Beyond plastics, the widespread use of ecologically damaging and emerging chemicals is causing massive declines in marine biota and degradation of aquatic ecosystems. To achieve the SDG targets to prevent and significantly reduce pollution, activities carried out will provide evidence on emerging pollutants and how they treat marine biodiversity, will promote the development of smart biosensors and predictive models to assess risks from pollutants, will also help the shifting from a linear to a circular economy, and will involve key stakeholders toward the EU Zero Pollution vision for 2050.