HELCOM High-level meeting on the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP), 9 March 2011
CCB • Mar 09, 2011
NGOs notice a surprising lack of progress in many National Implementation Plans (NIPs) of the BSAP from 2007. Concrete measures and its financing are lagging behind in order to reach the goals.
When it comes to concrete actions e.g. to reduce nutrient input from agriculture, reduce impact from fisheries and to protect biodiversity the real work to deliver the BSAP has yet to be done.
For further information read the NGO statement below.
On April, 21 the 4 th session of Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee to develop a global plastics treaty has started in Ottawa, Canada. Coalition Clean Baltic along with some of its Members, including SSNC, ASC/CES, and Ecopartnerstvo is taking part in INC-4.
The common harbour porpoise is critically endangered in the central Baltic Sea and off the Iberian Peninsula, with only a few hundred individuals left. However, effective measures to enable the recovery of these special populations have so far been lacking. At the meeting of the UN Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP14, 12-17 Feb 2024), the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise has now been included in Appendix I: This recognises this sub-population as critically endangered and emergency measures can be taken to save it.