Meeting
Restoring the Baltic Sea - From local successes to regional recovery
4 November 2026
Restoring the Baltic Sea - From local successes to regional recovery
Meeting
Biodiversity, Maritime, Eutrophication, Nature Conservation, Fisheries
Start date: 4 November 2026
End date: 4 November 2026
Time: 14:30 - 16:00 CET
Place: Ministry of Infrastructure (Room 132), Warsaw, Poland
Address: ul. Nowy Świat 6/12, 00-400 Warsaw, Poland
Description
Across the Baltic Sea region, nature restoration is already underway – and delivering results for nature and people. Now, there is an opportunity to build on what works and take restoration to scale.
How can we turn successful local efforts, on land and at sea, into recovery of the Baltic Sea as a whole? And what is needed to give restoration the plans, resources and momentum to succeed?
This joint CCB and WWF Baltic Sea Programme event will take place on 4 November 2026, in Warsaw, Poland, back to back alongside the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2026.
We will showcase restoration successes from across the region and the benefits they bring to ecosystems, communities and local economies. Together, we will explore how ambitious national restoration planning, action to reduce pressures, and cooperation through HELCOM can turn individual successes into lasting regional recovery.
Agenda
14:00-14:30 Registration
14:30-14:35 Introduction, Mirosław Proppé, CEO WWF Poland
14:35-14:40 Opening speech TBC
14:40-15:10 Presentation "Restoring the Baltic Sea: Progress, Plans and
Opportunities", Johanna Fox, Programme Director WWF Baltic Sea Programme (BSP); Valeska Diemel, Working Area Biodiversity Leader Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB)
15:10-15:55 Discussion panel “What does it take to turn local efforts, on land and at sea, into recovery of the whole Baltic Sea?”
PANELISTS:
Agnieszka Machalica, WWF Poland Blue Patrol volunteer
Christian Rohlfing, Managing Director of Gut Bad Sülze GmbH
Cecilia Wibjörn, Project Manager for The Archipelago Foundation
Regan McEnroe, Co-Chair of CCB, Chair of Fältbiologerna
Finnish Ministry of Environment representative (TBC)
15:55-16:00 Concluding remarks, Johanna Fox, Programme Director WWF BSP
Registrations
By invitation only.
Co-funded by
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
How can we turn successful local efforts, on land and at sea, into recovery of the Baltic Sea as a whole? And what is needed to give restoration the plans, resources and momentum to succeed?
This joint CCB and WWF Baltic Sea Programme event will take place on 4 November 2026, in Warsaw, Poland, back to back alongside the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2026.
We will showcase restoration successes from across the region and the benefits they bring to ecosystems, communities and local economies. Together, we will explore how ambitious national restoration planning, action to reduce pressures, and cooperation through HELCOM can turn individual successes into lasting regional recovery.
Agenda
14:00-14:30 Registration
14:30-14:35 Introduction, Mirosław Proppé, CEO WWF Poland
14:35-14:40 Opening speech TBC
14:40-15:10 Presentation "Restoring the Baltic Sea: Progress, Plans and
Opportunities", Johanna Fox, Programme Director WWF Baltic Sea Programme (BSP); Valeska Diemel, Working Area Biodiversity Leader Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB)
15:10-15:55 Discussion panel “What does it take to turn local efforts, on land and at sea, into recovery of the whole Baltic Sea?”
PANELISTS:
Agnieszka Machalica, WWF Poland Blue Patrol volunteer
Christian Rohlfing, Managing Director of Gut Bad Sülze GmbH
Cecilia Wibjörn, Project Manager for The Archipelago Foundation
Regan McEnroe, Co-Chair of CCB, Chair of Fältbiologerna
Finnish Ministry of Environment representative (TBC)
15:55-16:00 Concluding remarks, Johanna Fox, Programme Director WWF BSP
Registrations
By invitation only.
Co-funded by
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
