Ministers call for ambitious Baltic plan - Norden.org

News, 8/30/2007 - The Nordic environment ministers have called for tangible measures to protect the Baltic Sea, e.g. a ceiling on emissions of nutrients. The ministers discussed the condition of the Baltic at their summer meeting in Finland.
 
The measures are intended for inclusion in the planned Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP). The Nordic environment ministers pledged their full backing to the BSAP and stressed the importance of all the governments in the region working to ensure it is as effective as possible.
The BSAP is due to be approved by environment ministers from all of the Baltic Sea nations at a meeting of the Helsinki Commission for the Protection of the Baltic Sea Environment (HELCOM) in Krakow, Poland, 15 November. The ministers stressed the necessity of comprehensive regional co-operation between the EU countries and Russia to reduce the impact of nutrients on the Baltic Sea. (...)
The meeting also looked at the future of international management of the environment and at the Nordic initiative to bolster the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The ministers also stressed the importance of a global agreement being co-ordinated and involving representatives of civil society in environmental matters.
Photo: Nordic environment ministers at their summer meeting in Finland. © Patrik Edman/Norden.org Article published on the Norden.org website