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Europe’s rivers nowhere near healthy by 2027 deadline – report
90% of river basins studied in various EU countries will still be unhealthy by 2027, new research reveals. This means those countries will miss the legally…
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Finance in focus: NGOs bring together industry and ministers to discuss the future of finance in the Baltic sea
20 October – Lübeck, Germany – In conjunction with the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting to adopt the updated Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) , WWF along with Coalition…
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Political ambition and actions fall short in the updated Baltic Sea Action Plan
20 October – Lübeck, Germany – The updated plan to achieve a Good Environmental Status of the Baltic Sea lacks strong commitments to protect one of the…
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Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2022
In October 2021, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2022….
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Letter from NGOs and scientists calls for Baltic Sea Ministers political commitment to take action for the Baltic Sea
Over the last year, HELCOM Contracting Parties have intensively revised the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) set to be adopted by all Baltic Sea countries and the…
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Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2022
We are running against the clock to stop the collapse of the Baltic Sea ecosystem and…
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Restoring Baltic Sea can’t be delayed for another decade – political ambition must be raised by Baltic countries
June 7, 2021 –This year marks a milestone for the protection of the Baltic Sea. The…
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EU Must Respond to Baltic Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries Crash With Urgent, Radical Measures
Brussels, 28 May 2021: – Responding to today’s publication of annual scientific advice for 2022 EU fishing limits for the…
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Row over the Atlantic: a new collaboration to save the Baltic harbour porpoise
Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) and the Swedish adventurers Måns Kämpe and Sören Kjellkvist are pleased…
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Bycatch of critically endangered Baltic Sea harbour porpoise must stop
May 2021 – The Baltic Sea…
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EU Scientific body confirms stronger bycatch measures are needed to protect Bay of Biscay common dolphins and Baltic Proper harbour porpoises
NGO concerns over EU countries’ inadequate response to the bycatch of protected species have now been confirmed by the evaluation of the Scientific, Technical and Economic…
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EU will propose new law to make nature restoration legally binding in the EU
Nature as we know it is heading towards extinction. And it’s because of human activity. Logging, intensive agriculture and overfishing have pushed one million animal and plant…
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Towards a green Europe to protect European Deltas
Manifesto for the protection of European Deltas. There are around 10,000 deltas in the world, and some 339 million people live in them….
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Ambition, concrete actions and commitment: key elements to save the Baltic Sea
NGOs recommendations towards the updated Baltic Sea Action Plan 17 March 2021 – This year will mark a milestone for the protection of the…
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: How Conservation Is Failing European Porpoises
New scientific paper calls for urgent action to protect Europe’s porpoises. Sweden, February 2021 – In a paper just published in the journal…
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NGOs New Year’s “resolution list” to ensure Ministers deliver a future-proof plan to save the Baltic Sea
December 2020 – Another year has come and gone, and we, the Coalition Clean Baltic and WWF…
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Joint NGO letter to EU Commission on Baltic proper harbour porpoise
In September 2020, together with NABU, WWF, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and…
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Does the European Green Deal in agriculture stop nutrient leaching and limit the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea?
by Maria Staniszewska The European Commission, taking into account the huge negative impact of current agricultural practices on the environment, has prepared two…
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NGOs call on the EU to end support for new hydropower
Following World Fish Migration Day, 150 NGOs have banded together to call on the EU institutions to end public financing for new hydropower projects in Europe. Building…
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#DrillingIsKilling: a citizen mobilization platform
Following the publication of the Manifesto “Toward an EU offshore drilling ban” on April 20nd 2020, CCB joins the second phase of
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NGOs Welcome EU Fisheries Ministers Setting More Baltic Fishing Limits In Line with Science – But Ecological Crisis Not Averted
Luxembourg, 20 October 2020:- Environmental NGOs this morning welcomed the decision of EU Fisheries Ministers to set Baltic fishing limits for 2021 in accordance with scientific advice…
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Extinction risks to whales, dolphins and porpoises – over 350 scientists warn in an open letter
On Friday 9 October 2020, an open letter from more than 350 cetacean scientists highlighting the real and imminent extinction risk to whales,…
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European nations under pressure to save the critically endangered Baltic harbour porpoise
At a meeting of northern European nations held online this week, the issue of the critically endangered harbour porpoise population in the Baltic Sea was discussed and…
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EU Council of Ministers Urged to Take Decisions to Counter Baltic Sea Crisis
Brussels, 31 August 2020:- Responding to the publication of the European Commission’s proposal for Baltic Sea fishing limits for 2021, NGOs today called on EU Baltic…
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Commission takes legal action against France, Spain and Sweden to protect marine mammals
The European Commission has demanded today that France, Spain and Sweden take immediate action to prevent the needless deaths of dolphins and porpoises killed every year…
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Lack of national political will is driving European seas to the brink
Today, the European Commission published a report assessing the progress with the implementation of the EU’s Marine Directive , adopted in 2008. The report comes…
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Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2021
In October 2020, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2021. As the deadline to end overfishing by 2020 at the…
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Baltic Sea Fish Stocks Remain in Crisis – NGOs Call for Closures of Herring and Cod stocks
Brussels, 29 May 2020:- Responding to today’s publication of annual scientific advice for EU fishing limits for…
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Miljöorganisationer välkomnar vetenskapliga råd för att stoppa bifångster av den akut hotade Östersjötumlaren
Sverige, 26 Maj 2020 – Forskare från ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) släppte idag vetenskapliga råd för att stoppa bifångster av tumlaren…
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NGOs welcome scientists’ advice to halt bycatch of endangered Baltic Proper harbour porpoise
Scientists from the International Council for the Exploration (ICES) have published a landmark advice today, warning the European Commission that immediate action is…
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CCB joins the Surfrider Foundation Europe´s campaign #DrillingIsKilling
On the 20th of April 2010, the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, the deepest offshore oil platform, led…
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NGOs urge Baltic countries to speed up commitments to the Baltic Sea Action Plan
Helsinki, 3 March 2020 – This week at the HELCOM Stakeholder Conference and High-level Meeting , Coalition…
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The Baltic Shadow Plan: for the future of the Baltic Sea
This shadow plan presents NGO requests to HELCOM for the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) update.
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109 Organizations Around the Globe Urge World Leaders to Reach a WTO Deal to Help Save Our Ocean
This June, governments around the world must fulfil their commitment to curb the public money that supports overfishing and degrades our ocean. After nearly two decades of…
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Blue Manifesto – The Roadmap to a Healthy Ocean in 2030
More than 100 environmental organisations, led by Seas At Risk, BirdLife Europe, ClientEarth, Oceana, Surfrider Foundation Europe and WWF launched the “Blue Manifesto”. The rescue…
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Ten actions on our Christmas “wishlist” to ensure Ministers deliver a concrete plan to save the Baltic Sea
As the end of the year approaches, children and adults alike, will be writing their wish lists in the hopes that they might get a present on…
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EU Commission misses opportunity to halt dolphin and porpoise deaths this winter
The European Commission said today that it will not take emergency measures this winter to tackle the tragic death of dolphins caught in fishing nets.
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CCB´s comment to Ministers’ decision on TACs for the Baltic Sea
CCB´s comment to Ministers’ decision on TACs for the Baltic Sea – Better than expected, but…
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Groups call on the European Commission to take action over huge number of cetacean deaths
Thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales die in European waters, due to accidental capture in fisheries nets (bycatch). Today 21 environmental NGOs , led by Seas At…
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Joint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2020
1. Executive Summary In October 2019, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2020. This will…
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Save #OurBlueLung – 20 measures for clean and healthy seas by 2020
With little more than a year until the deadline, all countries of the European Union are failing on their legal obligation to ‘take all necessary measures to achieve Good…
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A joint NGO proposal to EU Ministers regarding European eel
On December 17th and 18th 2018 the EU Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) will decide on fishing opportunities for 2019 and will address measures for critically endangered European eel. ICES has yet…
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WWF Sweden, SSNC and CCB call upon Swedish government to stop fishing for eels
WWF Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) and Coalition Clean Baltic urges the Swedish government to ban eel fishing in the EU. The European eel is a critically endangered…
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Urgent political will needed to halt European marine habitat neglect
Environmental organisations call for real measures in areas protected on paper ClientEarth, Coalition Clean Baltic, Oceana, Seas at Risk and WWF warn that marine life across Europe is being harmed…
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EU ministers fail to help the Baltic cod but helped the salmon
Yesterday the EU ministers agreed to setting total allowable catches (TACs) for the main fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. Yet again, both Commission and Member States fail to…
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Nord Stream 2 AG has confirmed presence of “additional” 4 redlisted plant species within the proposed route of its gas pipeline across Kurgalsky Nature Reserve, in the Leningrad Region of Russia
In its official press-release from June 25, 2018 published only in Russian in Zug (Switzerland) and Saint Petersburg (Russia), the Nord Stream 2 AG, the developer of the…
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CCB position on grey seals in the Baltic Sea
The grey seal count for 2017 in the Baltic Sea was above 30 000 individuals. According to the IUCN, the counted animals are thought to be 60-80% of the total…
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CCB supports the joint call on the European anti-fraud office to open a formal investigation about electric fishing
CCB has signed the joint formal request, lead by the Bloom Association, to the European Anti Freud Office (known as OLAF from the French “Office européen de lutte antifraude”)…
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CCB position on the Sweden approval for the Nord Stream II
On 7 June 2018, the Swedish Government has granted a permit to the Nord Stream 2 AG for laying two natural gas pipelines on the continental shelf within the…
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Baltic Sea still blighted by illegal discarding and overfishing
Our Fish and CCB Press release: One-half cut in quota for eastern Baltic cod proposed Western Baltic cod under safe biological limits and illegal…
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