Ahead of the 2023 UN Water Conference: European conference on freshwater pollution by microplastics

Date: Monday, March 6, 2023, 9:30 a.m., to Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

Venue: UNESCO Building, 125 Avenue de Suffren, Paris

Topic: „Diving into freshwater microplastic pollution: connecting water, environmental and social sciences“

Programme: https://limnoplast2023.sciencesconf.org/program

Broadcast via Zoom: Beginning Thursday, March 2, 2023, the website https://limnoplast2023.sciencesconf.org will announce the link for online participation.

The conference on Twitter: @LimnoPlast – https://www.twitter.com/limnoplast

UN Water Conference 2023: The outcomes of the Paris conference, including recommendations for policymakers, will feed into the UN Water Conference, which will be held March 22-24, 2023, in New York: https://www.unwater.org/

On the LimnoPlast project
The LimnoPlast project, which started in 2019, is funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme. 13 universities, research institutions and industrial companies from eight European countries are participating. The project links environmental, technical and social sciences to address the pressing problem of microplastic pollution of ecosystems in a holistic approach. "Our conference, co-hosted with UNESCO, places microplastic pollution of freshwater in the context of the UN's global sustainable development agenda. It will present the latest scientific findings and innovative solutions that have been developed so far within LimnoPlast. In addition, the conference also sees itself as an international platform for the discussion of concepts and measures that can contribute to the reduction of global microplastic pollution and its consequential damage," says project coordinator Prof. Dr. Christian Laforsch from the University of Bayreuth, who is a member of the conference's organizing committee. At the University of Bayreuth, he heads the interdisciplinary DFG Collaborative Research Center "Microplastics."