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Ministerial meeting on environmental challenges in Baltic Sea

News: Aug 31, 2010

Sweden hosted a ministerial meeting on the Baltic Sea environment on 25 August. Ministers and high-ranking representatives from all the Baltic Sea states attended the seminar, "Building marine policy on best available knowledge", which was arranged by the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment at Rosenbad in Stockholm. The meeting was the first to take place under the Swedish chairmanship of the Baltic Sea cooperation body HELCOM, the Helsinki Commission for the protection of the Baltic Marine Environment.

The seminar was attended by 80 participants and speakers from HELCOM's member countries. Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren also presented the priorities of the Swedish chairmanship, as well as proposals on how the cooperation via HELCOM can be developed to tackle the environmental challenges of the Baltic Sea. The Swedish Environment Minister was also joined by ministers from Finland, Poland, Latvia and Estonia in a panel discussion on how HELCOM and other ongoing processes should deliver and monitor measures that are being implemented.
Programme for HELCOM meeting.

Programme for HELCOM meeting

The following lectures from the meeting are available to download in pdf format:

Anne Christine Brusendorff, HELCOM Executive Secretary: The entire picture of the Baltic -HELCOM Initial Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea 2003-2007 (HOLAS)

Daniel Conley, Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University, Sweden: Nutrient reductions through engineering approaches

Poul Degnbol, ICES: ICES advice on fish stocks and ecosystem management

Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Finnish Environment Institute: Research on assessment methods for WFD and MFSD

Maria Laamanen, HELCOM Secretariat: The HELCOM Baltic Sea Impact Index

Elliott A. Norse, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Bellevue, Washington, USA: Scientists and Policy Makers: Helping Each Other Understand Marine Spatial Planning

Anders Omstedt, Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment: Long‐term assessments: The importance of time series and historical data

Sif Johansson, DG Environment, European Commission: EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Brian R. MacKenzie, Danish Tecnical University, Aqua: How Many Cod are Needed in a BalancedBaltic Sea Tore Söderqvist, Enveco, Sweden: Marine policy - Do people care and how much is it worth?

Fredrik Wulff, Baltic Nest Institute, Stockholm university: Science meet Management - The Baltic Sea Action Plan against Eutrophication