<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Humanity must change its lifestyle to cope with the environmental crisis brought about by climate change, a UN official warned.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In an interview with Anadolu, Tatjana Hema, the coordinator of the UNEP-MAP (United Nations Environment Program-Mediterranean Action Plan) Barcelona Convention, who visited Istanbul for Mediterranean Green Week, shared her evaluations of climate change and its impact on the Mediterranean.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hema said that the measures under the Barcelona Convention and in collaboration among all contracting parties -- 21 Mediterranean countries and the EU -- address biodiversity conservation, the protection of the ecosystem, the establishment of marine protected areas, the protection of species in danger, the prevention of pollution from land-based sources or from shipping from the sea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Emphasizing the important decisions taken in their last two meetings, Hema said, “There is a very strong commitment, but in order for the decision to be implemented, there is a need for support. And this is why we, as UNEP-MAP, do our best in order to provide the necessary technical and financial assistance to the countries in order to implement.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>