REPRESENTATIVES OF GREECE AND UNEP/MAP MEET WITH THE AMBASSADOR FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST
On 24 September 2021 the Secretary-General of the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy Konstantinos Aravossis and UNEP/MAP Coordinator Tatjana Hema met with Lefteris Arapakis, the UNEP Young Champion of the Earth for Europe (2020). The meeting took place on the premises of Enaleia, a social enterprise that Mr. Arapakis co-founded. It was followed by a visit to the fish market of Keratsini, one of several sites in Greece and elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin where Enaleia works with fishers on fishing for plastic. The visitors were presented with samples of by-catch plastic items brought on shore for recycling instead of being thrown back into the sea. Read more.