SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT 2022
The year of an unprecedented war in Ukraine has significantly disrupted many environmental processes in the region.
CCB’s main aims were to continue upholding regional NGO network capacity to take part in policy shaping and policy implementation on EU, Baltic Sea Region and national levels.
In these difficult times, CCB remained an important platform for the unification and amplification of the civil society advocacy activities in the protection and restoration of the environment and natural resources of the Baltic Sea and its catchment.
Eugeniy Lobanov
CCB Chairperson 2022-23
HIGHLIGHTS
The war in Ukraine - Our statement
"Environmental NGOs and networks like CCB are not political. However, a war in our region is unprecedented and not a matter of normal political discourse in choosing how to protect the environment best or how to restore our ecosystems.
CCB as a network of NGOs was created in 1990 to join people from all countries in the Baltic Sea catchment area in a common cause: to improve our shared environment, to learn from each other and to understand each other’s culture and tradition. [...]
We must now again stand for the right to exist in peace for both our Ukrainian and Russian friends. Nature will remain our common value and language of dialogue, but we condemn any kind of violence and aggression in any form it occurs.
We are not afraid of each other, we trust each other, and there will never again be a wall between us. Instead, we will strive to protect the most important thing – human life, not to destroy it!"
For the protection of the Baltic Sea
Due to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, most of CCB´s policy advocacy activities and tasks planned, related to HELCOM, were affected and/or halted/postponed.
CCB has worked continuously to link HELCOMs BSAP (Baltic Sea Action Plan)/MSFD (Marine Strategy Framework Directive), to the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and species protection, such as for eel and porpoise and the underlying organizational challenges.
UN-driven environmental agenda
We also became actively engaged globally in UN-driven environmental agenda through participation in the UN Ocean Conference, COP27, and in the 1st session of the INC on the plastics treaty.
RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
OUR WORK DURING THE YEAR 2022
@CCB 1501 followers
@Raddatumlaren 1064 followers
23 events organized
by CCB
@CCB 461 followers
@Raddatumlaren 263 followers
+110 events attended
@CCB
773 followers
CCB network
26 Member Organizations
@CCB 145 subscribers
+10 Press Releases
1 petition & 1 crowdfunding
FINANCES
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OUR FUNDERS
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CCB NETWORK
CCB unites Member and Observer organizations, as well as partners and individual experts in all countries of the Baltic Sea Region (Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine). The organizations represent the largest and most important environmental NGO's in these countries and together have over 1 500 000 individual members.
Conclusions
Another intensive and a very challenging year has passed, full
of disappointments and sorrow, but also of even harder work for the protection
of the environment and the public health in the Baltic Sea region.
You can download the PDF of CCB 2022 Summary Annual Report
here.