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Editor: Alexander Fedorov, cei@cei.ru , Centre for Environmental Initiatives.
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Dear friends,

The year 2006 was marked by many successes achieved by member organisations of Coalition Clean Baltic members. However, our common Baltic
Sea is still facing many challenges.

In the coming year, I wish all of you still more successes in our common efforts to make the Baltic Sea cleaner and life on its shores more sustainable.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You!

Alexander Fedorov
CCB Newsletter editor

CCB NEWS

Green World fights nuclear electricity
Green World monitors a new hazardous project at the Baltic Sea. Export of electricity from the Leningrad nuclear power plant via 150-km long cable on the bottom of the Gulf of Finland is planned. The project will result in export of electricity produced by one 1-GW reactor of the NPP to Finland and Sweden.
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VI Baltic Sea NGO Forum
was held in Saltsjobaden, near Stockholm, Sweden, on 5-7 October 2006. It gathered about 200 NGO activists working in various spheres.
Please find more information about the Forum here
Four thematic seminars were organized within the Forum. The Environment and Sustainability workshop was organised under the aegis of Coalition Clean Baltic, and was moderated by Maret Merisaar.
Please read more about Environment and Sustainability workshop here

Together for the future
EU-Russia Forum on Civil Society Cooperation
was held in Lahti, Finland, on 17 and 18 November 2006. The Forum gathered NGO activists, politicians and journalists from Russia and EU countries with the aim of discussing the forms and possibilities of the EU-Russia cooperation on a citizens' level. Over 300 participants of the Lahti Forum representatives 17 European countries.
Please find more information about the Forum here
Environmental issues were discussed at the workshop and at the Fourth plenary session. Its main themes were climate change, EU-Russia energy relations, and nuclear safety. Please find presentation by Alexander Fedorov from the Centre for Environmental Initiatives here

BALTIC SEA NEWS

HELCOM's Chairman and Russia's Minister of Natural Resources discuss the preparation of the Baltic Sea Action Plan
HELCOM launches new comprehensive assessment of the Baltic Sea
Catches of chemical munitions in the Baltic remain low
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NEW PUBLICATIONS

Global water quality database
New edition of Ramsar handbooks
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COMING EVENTS

European Symposium
Planning Approaches to Sustainable River Basin Management
14-15 May, 2007, Rovaniemi, Finland
Deadline for submission of papers: 31 January, 2007
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Fourth International Conference on River Basin Management
23 - 25 May, 2007, Kos, Greece
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International Congress River Basin Management
22-24 March, 2007, Antalya, Turkey
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XIIIth World Water Congress
1-4 September, 2008, Montpellier, France
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 2007
Read more

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