External meeting
HELCOM - Ministerial Meeting 2021
October 20, 2021
External meeting
HELCOM - Ministerial Meeting 2021
Start date: October 20, 2021 AM
End date: October 20, 2021
Place: Lübeck, Germany
Address:
What is HELCOM?
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – also known as the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) – is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and a regional sea convention in the Baltic Sea area. HELCOM was established about four decades ago to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental cooperation. The HELCOM Secretariat is located in Helsinki, Finland. To know more about it.
Description
The HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2021 (MM2021) was held in Lübeck, Germany on 20 October 2021. It was hosted by Germany, holder of the chairmanship of HELCOM (2020-2022). The Baltic Sea Action Plan (2021 update) was adopted during the MM2021.
Ministerial Meetings are the highest decision-making level in HELCOM and are to be held every three years unless decided otherwise. The Ministerial Meetings are attended by the highest representatives of our Contracting Parties, namely by the Ministers of the Environment or Maritime Affairs of the nine Baltic Sea countries as well as by the EU Commissioner for the Environment.
In conjunction with the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting, Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) along with WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme invited high-level ministers, finance representatives and NGOs together in the side-event "How can regional financial flows in the seascape help support and restore the Baltic Sea?", held on 20 October 2021.
CCB participants of the meeting:
- Mikhail Durkin, CCB Executive Secretary
- Nils Höglund, CCB Fisheries Policy Officer
- Federica Pastore, CCB Communication Officer
- Bettina Taylor, Stefanie Sudhaus and Nadja Ziebarth, BUND - Friends of the Earth Germany
Meeting documents & materials
- Provisional Annotated Agenda.
- Minutes and the participants list of the event.
- Statement by Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) and the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF).
- Pictures from the event.
Ministerial Meetings are the highest decision-making level in HELCOM and are to be held every three years unless decided otherwise. The Ministerial Meetings are attended by the highest representatives of our Contracting Parties, namely by the Ministers of the Environment or Maritime Affairs of the nine Baltic Sea countries as well as by the EU Commissioner for the Environment.
In conjunction with the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting, Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) along with WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme invited high-level ministers, finance representatives and NGOs together in the side-event "How can regional financial flows in the seascape help support and restore the Baltic Sea?", held on 20 October 2021.
CCB participants of the meeting:
- Mikhail Durkin, CCB Executive Secretary
- Nils Höglund, CCB Fisheries Policy Officer
- Federica Pastore, CCB Communication Officer
- Bettina Taylor, Stefanie Sudhaus and Nadja Ziebarth, BUND - Friends of the Earth Germany
Meeting documents & materials
- Provisional Annotated Agenda.
- Minutes and the participants list of the event.
- Statement by Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) and the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF).
- Pictures from the event.