CCB
Water Seminar on sustainable water management in River Basin
Management Plans, 18-20 November, Gdynia, Poland
CCB
organised together with Global Water Partnership PL and POMCERT
Gdynia, a Water Seminar on sustainable water management in
River Basin Management Plans in the Baltic Sea Region.
CCB
Salmon Seminar about the Future for the Salmon River Luga,
9-10 December 2009, Kingisepp, Russia
CCB
organise together with Baltic Fund For Nature and Green World
a Salmon Seminar about the possibility of re-establishing
Luga river as a sustainable and natural habitat for Baltic
Salmon.
EU
Commissioner for Fisheries, Joe Borg, introduced to the CCB
activities on the protection of the wild Baltic salmon
The
EU Commissioner for Fisheries, Joe Borg, was offered and accepted
a CCB salmon tie with the text "This person promotes
the protection of the wild Baltic salmon".
CCB
addresses the meeting of Ministers of the Baltic Sea Member
States and the EU-Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
1 October 2009, in Saltsjobaden, Stockholm, Sweden to
Secure stakeholder
participation in Baltic Fisheries Management
Fisheries control
must be strengthened - unreported and unrecorded catches is
still a problem in Baltic Salmon fisheries
Increased
ambition for fish stock monitoring needed to achieve Sustainable
Fisheries Management - example upcoming "Baltic Salmon
management plan".
Russian
shipyard planned in Gulf of Finland close to RAMSAR area
Russia
is planning for a new shipyard in Primorsk, Gulf of Finland.
The planned localization will be close to the Russian RAMSAR
site "Birch Islands", an area most important for
bird protection and bird migration (e.g. whopper swan). Important
local nature conservation and recreational values are also
threatened by the plans. CCB proposes, in a letter to the
Russian Prime Minister and Governor of Leningrad Oblast, to
consider alternative localization of the shipyard, to minimize
the impact on international and regional nature conservation
values. For more info, see CCB letter to Russian decision
makers below.
First
cycle River Basin Management Plans under our control?
The European
Community has faced the important challenges to recover the
good status of water bodies by 2015, as required by the Water
Framework Directive. Water in rivers, estuaries and coasts
will hopefully improve under measures set up in the River
Basin Management Plans (RBMP) drawn up for river basin districts
across Europe.
Read
the article by CCB Water Policy Officer Anna Smolka, on her
experience from the RBMP planning process.
the
Baltic Sea and Baltic
Region The Baltic Sea is
the world’s second largest inland sea, with brackish
water, and a unique ecosystem. It is also one of the most
polluted seas in the world. The Baltic Sea is neither dead
nor dying – but it is in great trouble.
CCB
Extra Ordinary General meeting
and Annual Conference Baltic 09! This years event took place in Vihterpalu,
Pedase, Estonia, 8-10 of May. The topic of this years Annual
Conference was Eutrophication and the Baltic Sea - challenges
for environmental NGOs". For more information, please
see links below. Invitation Baltic
09
You
can help the Baltic Sea! The
future and recovery of the Baltic Sea depends on our lifestyles.
There are 85 million of us living around this unique sea. By
working together we can achieve a healthier, more dynamic sea.
There is a lot you can do to help the Baltic Sea! Read
more
CCB
Seminar on Sustainable Sanitation & Sustainable Wastewater
Management, 18 December 2008, Krakow, Poland
CCB
organised a seminar in Krakow, Poland, 18 December 2008, discussing
sustainable solutions for sanitation systems. For more information,
please see link below.
CCB
Seminar on Coastal protection and development policy in the
Baltic Sea region, 17-18 October 2008, in Jurmala, Latvia
Latvian
Green Movement together with CCB organized an international
seminar in Jurmala, Latvia, 17-18 October 2008, discussing
risks and opportunities for coastal protection in the Baltic
Sea region.
CCB
International Salmon seminar 15-16 October 2008, in Riga/Salacgriva,
Latvia
CCB
organised a seminar in Riga/Salacgriva in October on the
new EC Baltic Salmon mangement plan that is under preparation.
For more information on the outcome of the seminar
and presentations please see the link below.
The
Ecocentrum in St. Petersburg,
Russia has produced a booklet in
English on their activities The Ecocentrum is a partnership
of non-governmental organisations for promotion of sustainable
development through spreading knowledge and encouraging environmentally
friendly decisions and actions. More
information
Publications
to download Every year CCB produces and translates
information to increase knowledge and awareness of environmental
problems in the Baltic Sea region.
Note that you now can download
the Baltic Sea harbour porpoise brochure in German, Finnish,
Swedish, English and Polish as well as the book "Sustainable
sanitation in Central and Eastern Europe" in English,
Bulgarian, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak and
Ukrainian. Publications
Nature
Conservation Atlas of the Russian Part of Gulf of Finland This Nature Conservation Atlas is
produced by the Baltic Fund for Nature with support from among
others Coalition Clean Baltic.
Please have a look at it
(note that the file is 101 mb)
For other publications please have a look at "publications"
in the menue.
CCB
were coorganisers of the High-Level Policy Dialogue on
" EU Sanitation Policies and Practices
in the 2008 International Year of Sanitation"
Brussels, 29 th January 2007 Draft
agenda
"Where
have all the fishes gone?"
Listen
and learn from this animation telling the sad story of the
fate of the fish in the Baltic Sea.
Environmental
NGO (Coalition Clean Baltic and World Wide Fund for Nature)
Statement for HELCOM Ministerial Meeting on the HELCOM
Baltic Sea Action Plan, Krakow, 15
November 2007
The
brochure "The Baltic Harbour Porpoise needs Protection"
tells you about the situation for the estimated 600 individuals
of this species that still remain in the Baltic Sea.
Comb
jelly poses serious threat to Baltic Sea ecosystem
Alarming
numbers of comb jellies (Mnemiopsis ledyi) have been detected
in parts of the Baltic Sea. It is feared that the invasive
species could have disastrous consequences for the entire
ecosystem in the Baltic.
On
10 October 2007, the European Commission presented its vision
for a integrated maritime policy for the European Union. The
vision document ? also called the Blue book
Publications
to download Every year CCB
produces and translates information to increase knowledge and
awareness of environmental problems in the Baltic Sea region
including constructive measures to address those problems. Publications
Environmental
education programme River Watch supported by CCB arrived in
Belarus in 2005 and captured the imagination of several schools
straight away.
Nina
Palutskaya from Belarus writes about the implementation of
the River Watch programme in her country.
High-Level
Political Meeting on Baltic Eutrophication and Agriculture
On 19-20 April 2007 a Meeting of High-Level Representatives
from Ministries of Agriculture and Environment of the Baltic
Sea Region countries (CBSS) will take place in Saltsjöbaden,
Sweden. The meeting title: Land and Sea: more cooperation,
less eutrophication, will discuss measures to reduce the heavy
nutrient load (50% of the total N&P- load to the Baltic
Sea) from the Baltic agricultural sector.
1
January 2007 the ASCOBANS Secreariat was merged with the Convention
of Migratory Species (CMS) Secretariat. The Executive Secretary
of CMS has now assumed the role of acting Executive Secretary
for ASCOBANS as well CMS website.
Good
news from Scandinavia regarding the planned electricity cable The Swedish prime minister Fredrik
Reinfeldt was in the Parliament to inform about the EU-Russia
meeting in Finland and Per Bolund from the Green Party asked
him about the cable.
Planned
Nuclear Electricity import to Nordic market from dangerous
Chernobyl type reactor!
NGOs
oppose the nuclear electricity import from Russian dangerous
Chernobyl type reactor to the Nordic countries, as lon as
common environmental standards are missing and urge the Finnish
government to stop the planned nuclear electricity cabel between
Leningrad nuclear power plant to the Nordic electricity market.
Joining
forces around the Baltic With
its 27 member organizations, and their half a million members
in all countries around the Baltic Sea, its drainage area approach
and its consistent work at the grassroots level, makes Coalition
Clean Baltic (CCB) unique organization. The primary goal of
CCB is to promote the protection and improvement of the environment
and natural resources of the Baltic Sea Area. About
CCB
Baltic
Cod Fish stocks in European waters
are severely threatened, and some, such as Baltic and North
Sea cod, are threatened with extinction in the near future unless
strong protective measures are implemented. Priority
Activity Sustainable Fisheries
The CCB has decided to focus on three priority areas: 1. Promotion of good ecological water status 2. Prevention of installations and transports harmful to the Baltic Sea
environment. 3. Development of sustainable Baltic Sea Fisheries.
There are a number of activities and projects within each area. Read more
Larus Marinus Adventures in the Baltic Sea. Can be downloaded at Publications (see Content and: "10. Others").
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