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CCB online event on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
CCB will arrange an online event on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation on 15 May 2020, via Zoom. Further details on the event will be provided soon, after re-confirming with anticipated…
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12th Meeting of the Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area
The 12th Meeting of the Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area will be held online on 21-24 April 2020. More info are available…
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19Ath Meeting of the Maritime Working Group
In line with HELCOM policy on COVID-19, Intersessional Meeting of the Maritime Working Group (HELCOM MARITIME 19A-2020) will be held as an on-line meeting on 16-17 March 2020. More info…
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Online Workshop on Emergency Measures Bycatch
The ICES Workshop on Emergency Measures Bycatch (ICES WKEMBYC 2020) was held online on 1-3 April 2020. Ida Carlén, CCB Biodiversity Officer, attended the meeting.
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Online Meeting of the Working Group on the State of the Environment and Nature Conservation
The Online Meeting of the Working Group on the State of the Environment and Nature Conservation will be held online on 17 April 2020. More info will be available…
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CCB Board Meeting (online)
The next CCB Board Meeting will be organized online (Zoom) on 24 April 2020. Documents: – Zoom instructions for CCB meetings More info will be available soon.
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9th Meeting of the Group on Sustainable Agricultural Practices (online)
The 9th Meeting of the Group on Sustainable Agricultural Practices will be held online on 30-31 March 2020. Mikhail Durkin, CCB Executive Secretary, will attend the meeting. More info here.
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Training Gender sensitivity and environment
In October 2019 the partners from Belarus Water Programme gathered to deepen awareness and sensitivity for gender and explore how it can be relevant in the work for the environment. The…
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1st Belarusian Field Day 2019
On August 1, 2019, the first Belarusian Field Day 2019 was held in Vialikaya Bierastavica village, Hrodna region, organised by the Center for Environmental Solutions with the support of…
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7th International Conference on Organic Farming
On December 3, 2019, Minsk hosted the 7th International Conference on Organic Farming in the Republic of Belarus. The event has traditionally been organizes by the Ministry of Agriculture…
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11th Meeting of the Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable Fisheries
The 11th Meeting of HELCOM Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable Fisheries (FISH 11-2020) was organized in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the premises of Hotel Riverton (Stora Badhusgatan 26, 411 21), in…
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Online workshop: Plastic Free Ocean – global and holistic solutions in the fight against plastics pollution
Due to corona virus outbreak, the workshop “Plastic Free Ocean – global and holistic solutions in the fight against plastics pollution” was organized remotely via ZOOM and did not…
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Baltic breakfast
The Baltic Breakfast organised by the Baltic Sea Center took place on 11 March 2020 at Scandic Klara in Stockholm. The theme of this meeting was eutrophication and Gunnar…
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LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform – Meeting Making Water Fit for LIFE
The meeting was hosted by Cetaqua (Water Technology Centre) at the Agbar Water Museum, Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain on January 29th and 30th 2020. The meeting aimed to bring…
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[Postponed] EUSBSR 11th Annual Forum
Given the implications of Coronavirus outbreak for all countries including restrictions on travel and safety of all participants as a primary concern, the organisers have decided to postpone the…
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International SEABASED seminar
The international seminar on different “sea-based” measures in Baltic Sea nutrient management took place on 5 February 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. The focus of the seminar was on the current…
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[Postponed] XXI International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day”
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: It is with deep regret that, in light of the world coronavirus outbreak and quick escalating regional situation, we at the Organizing Committee with respect and…
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Workshop on BAT reports
The Workshop on BAT reports in HAZBREF case sectors will take place in Stockholm on 27-28 April 2020. This Workshop will dig into studies of the HAZBREF case sectors: Surface…
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HAZBREF Stakeholder Conference
The final HAZBREF Stakeholder Conference will be held in Dessau, Germany 3 – 4 June 2020. The conference´s highlights will be the findings of the different HAZBREF activities. These include…
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HELCOM FISH PRO III
The 2nd Meeting of the continuation of the project for Baltic-wide assessment of coastal fish communities in support of an ecosystem-based management took place at the premises of the…
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[Postponed] CCB Annual Conference
Given the implications of Coronavirus outbreak for all countries including restrictions on travel and safety of all participants as our primary concern, the CCB Board decided to postpone the…
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HELCOM Stakeholder Conference
The HELCOM Stakeholder Conference on the update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan took place in the Marina Congress Center on Tuesday, 3 March 2020, preceding the HELCOM 41-2020…
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41st Meeting of the Helsinki Commission
The 41st Meeting of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – Helsinki Commission, was held in Helsinki, Finland, at the Marina Congress Center (Katajanokanlaituri 6, FI-00160 Helsinki) from 4…
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ICES WKBALTIC ecosystem
The ICES WKBALTIC meeting took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 25-26 February 2020. The Workshop on the Ecosystem Based Management of the Baltic Sea (WKBALTIC) worked with stakeholders (including managers)…
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ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology (WGMME)
The ICES GWMME meeting took place in Barcelona, Spain, from 10 to 14 February 2020. More info here.
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CCB Board Meeting (online)
The next Board meeting (on 27-28 March, originally planned in Rostock) was arranged online (by Zoom) due to the increasing risk of COVID-19 epidemic and travel restrictions set by…
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Ocean Action! Conference
Ocean Action! brought together policy-makers, scientists, activists and artists to call on the EU for action on its commitment to protect and restore our seas and ocean. Agenda and more…
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BSAC Executive Committee meeting
The Executive Committee meeting was held on Monday 20th January 2020 at The Hotel NH Brussels EU Berlaymont in Brussels from 9.00 to 17.00. The main agenda point for the…
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Tackling entanglement – Lunch time event at the EU Parliament
The Tackling Entanglement – Bycatch Event was held on 5th December from 12:30 to 14:30 at the European Parliament in Bruxelles. EU decision-makers, cetacean bycatch experts and small-scale fisheries…
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NGOs and Small-scale fishers: A quest for a joint agenda
The NGO and LIFE fishermen meeting, organized by CCB, was held in Warsaw on 13-14 November 2019. Related documents: – Agenda of the meeting – Participants list
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POLICY ROUND TABLE – PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (PIE)
The Policy Round Table “Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PIE)” took place in Lund, Sweden, on 10-11 December 2019. The event was arranged by EUSBSR PA Hazards flagship ‘BSR-Pharma Platform’ and back…
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Seminar on renewable energy developments on Natura 2000
The event, organized by the EU Commission and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), took place in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 November and the aim was to present the…
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HELCOM AGRI 8-2019
The 8th Meeting of the Agri group (AGRI 8-2019) was held in Berlin, Germany on 5-6 November 2019. The Meeting was hosted by the Federal Ministry for the Environment,…
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Maritime Spatial Planning – If I were a Decision-Maker!
On 19-21 November, the 3rd Baltic MSP Forum took place in Riga, Latvia. On 19 November there was a presentation of the MSP game “If I were a Decision-Maker!”,…
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Seminar on harbour porpoise and MPAs at the Swedish Parliament
On 13 November 2019, CCB and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation together with the Swedish Green Party, arranged a short seminar in the Swedish Parliament. Members of Parliament…
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COP25 – UNFCCC Climate Change Conference
The COP25 took place in IFEMA – Feria de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 13 December. COP 25/CMP 15/ CMA 2 took place from 2-13 December 2019. …
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Conference on the future of the LIFE Programme
The European Commission organised a conference on the future of the LIFE Programme, covering the 2021-2027 funding period. The event took place at the Metropole Hotel in Brussels, Belgium…
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LIFE Platform Meeting on Chemicals
The LIFE Platform Meeting on Chemicals took place on 27 & 28 November 2019, in Vilnius, Lithuania. There were approximately 80+ senior policy experts and professionals in the field…
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HaV meeting – Fisheries regulation in MPAs
The meeting on fisheries regulation in MPAs, organized by Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, took place in Göteborg on 3-4 October 2019. Nils Höglund, CCB Fisheries Policy Officer, and Ida Carlén,…
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HELCOM Workshop on the analyses of Sufficiency of Measures (SOM) for Fish
The HELCOM Workshop on the analyses of Sufficiency of Measures (SOM) for Fish took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 4-6 November 2019. The objective of the Workshop was to consider…
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21th CBSS Expert Group Meeting
The 21th CBSS Expert Group meeting on Sustainable Development (EGSD) took place in Helsinki on 17 October 2019. Main topics of discussions were: – the focus of the Danish Priority on…
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BSAC Joint Working Group
The BSAC Joint Working Group meeting was held on Tuesday 29th October 2019 at the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, ul. Kołłątaja 1, 81-332 Gdynia. It started at 09.00…
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19th Meeting of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group
The 19th Meeting of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 18-2019) was held in St Petersburg, Russia, on 28-29 October 2019. The Meeting focused on the…
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Salmon River fest in Olkhovka
The River fest was organized by “Friends of Neman” organization and the Center for Environmental Solutions (CES), and took place in Olkhovka, Belarus, on 28 September 2019.
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Workshop: Transboundary solutions to a common challenge of pharmaceutical, microplastics and mercury pollution within Western Bug & Neman river basins
The workshop “Transboundary solutions to a common challenge of pharmaceutical, microplastics and mercury pollution within Western Bug & Neman river basins” took place in Lviv, Ukraine, at Bankhotel…
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Workshop – Agri-environmental measures: education and engagement of young farmers
The workshop “Agri-environmental measures: education and engagement of young farmers” took place in Lviv, Ukraine, at Bankhotel on 13 October. Presentations: “Role of small and medium farms, organic…
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Lviv Organic & Natural Fair
The “Organic & Natural Fair” tooki place in Lviv, Ukraine, on 12-13 October, from 11:00 to 18:00. The event was organized by CCB Member Ecoterra. More info also on
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7th EMSEA Conference
The 7th Annual EMSEA (European Marine Science Educators Association) took place on 16-20 September at EXPOLAB in São Miguel, Azores, Portugal. Marine educators, communicators and scientists participated in an interactive…
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SOM Biodiversity: Marine Mammals workshop
The HELCOM Marine Mammals workshop was held on 26-27 September in Helsinki, Finland. More info are available here.
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MSP Forum “Global meets regional”
On 19-21 November, the 3rd Baltic MSP Forum took place in Riga, Latvia. Maritime Spatial Planning Forum “Global meets regional”, organised together by VASAB, IOC UNESCO, EC DG-MARE and Pan…
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