Russian-German coalition demands to stop nuclear waste movement from Germany to Russia
# Russia is not a nuclear waste dump! # Saint-Petersburg – Berlin, July 2020 – The appeal to the authorities of Russia and…
Continue readingCommission 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…
Continue readingLack 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…
Continue readingJoint 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…
Continue readingBaltic 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…
Continue readingNGOs 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…
Continue readingCCB 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…
Continue readingCOVID19 – UPDATED Guidelines for CCB Network
We have prepared the guidelines below for CCB Member Organizations and Observers following recent developments on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The guidelines apply to all CCB events…
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Vacancy: Financial Manager/Controller to join the CCB International Secretariat
We are looking for a full time Financial Manager/Controller to join the team at the CCB International Secretariat in Uppsala, Sweden. This position will play…
Continue readingNGOs 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…
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue reading109 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…
Continue readingBlue 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…
Continue readingTen 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…
Continue reading4,500+ scientists call on European Commission to defend the EU water law
Brussels, 6 December 2019 – Scientists and academics concerned by the dire state of European rivers, lakes and wetlands have released a statement calling on the EU…
Continue readingEU 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.
Continue readingCCB´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…
Continue readingSupport and criticism for Commission proposal for Baltic Sea fishing 2020
Helsinki, 4 Sept 2019 – Environmental NGOs The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, Coalition Clean Baltic and the Fisheries…
Continue readingCCB joined the Ocean Call for G7
We have joined and signed the Ocean Call, which carries the voice and the commitments of more than…
Continue readingExperts call to check actual environmental losses from laying Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Greenpeace Russia prepares an appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office with a request to examine new facts of environmental damage caused by laying the Nord Stream 2 gas…
Continue readingGroups 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…
Continue readingJoint 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…
Continue readingCalls for Emergency Halt to Baltic Fishing
Brussels May 29, 2019:- Responding to scientific advice that a number of important Baltic fish populations are in a state of crisis and cannot be fished sustainably,…
Continue readingTowards a new plan, for CCB and the Baltic Sea
The CCB Board Meeting (16-17/05), Annual Conference (18/05) and Extraordinary General Meeting (19/05)…
Continue readingJoint NGOs letter to the WTO ambassadors
Excellency: This year will be pivotal for the world’s ocean.
Continue readingEastern Baltic cod stock has collapsed – NGOs call to immediately close fishing of Eastern Baltic cod
Responding to the release of an alarming new report by international fisheries scientists that Eastern Baltic Cod is…
Continue readingVacancy: Marine senior policy officer at the Danish Society for Nature Conservation
The Danish Society for Nature Conservation wish to employ a skilled senior policy officer experienced in international marine policy and management Over the course…
Continue readingReal actions, not ´realistic´ wishes – a recipe for an updated Baltic Sea Action plan
On 6-7 March high-level representatives will meet at the 40th Meeting of the Helsinki Commission.On this occasion, CCB is grateful to share the concerns of civil…
Continue readingMore garbage caught than cod: NGOs call for emergency measures to protect Eastern Baltic cod
NGOs in the Baltic Sea Region have sent an urgent
Continue readingSave #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…
Continue readingVacancy: International Coordinator/Administrative Officer
The International Secretariat of the Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB), a grass-root environmental NGO network for the Baltic Sea Region, is now seeking for a new colleague to join the…
Continue readingA 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…
Continue readingWWF 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…
Continue readingUrgent 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…
Continue readingEU 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…
Continue readingJoint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2019
In October 2018, EU fisheries ministers are scheduled to agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2019. The following text outlines the joint NGO recommendations on Baltic…
Continue readingNord 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…
Continue readingCCB 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…
Continue readingCCB 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”)…
Continue readingCCB 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…
Continue readingBaltic 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…
Continue readingCCB is looking for a new Financial/Administrative Officer
We are currently searching for a new colleague to join the team at the CCB International Secretariat as Financial Manager/Controller and Administrative Officer. Being an international organization CCB’s work…
Continue readingNew impulse for the CCB work in 2018-2019
The CCB Board Meeting (19-20/04), the Annual Conference (20-21/04) and the General Meeting (22/04) were held in Zelenogradsk (Kaliningrad region), Russia. The theme of the 2018 Annual Conference was #IamtheBaltic,…
Continue readingCall to action for the EU countries: 3 steps to restore our seas by 2020
Despite the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008), most EU countries are a long way off in achieving their targets to protect and restore our seas to healthy…
Continue readingThe turning point for saving the Baltic Sea is now
The action plan linked to the ecosystem approach which the Helsinki convention (HELCOM) agreed upon in 2007 is at risk. The progress of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)…
Continue readingRecreational fishing in Baltic region
Recreational fishing is a very large sector in the Baltic region to consider both from a value point of view as well as potential impacts. Around 10 percent of…
Continue readingDo not believe Nord Stream 2: help us saving Kurgalskiy Peninsula!
On 6 February 2018, Nord Stream 2 AG will be hosting in Geneva a Round Table on the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for the Kurgalsky Nature Reserve. Why in Geneva? Apparently, because the…
Continue readingCCB looking for Communications officer
Coalition Clean Baltic is now looking for a Communications officer to fill a new full time position from the beginning of April 2018. We are currently updating our communication…
Continue readingPublic Environmental Assessment of the Nord Stream 2: the project should not be given permission for implementation due to numerous deficiencies and noncompliance with the law
On Monday, 15 January 2018, the results and conclusions of the Public Environmental Assessment, an independent expert review of the project documentation, including the Environmental Impact Assessment and mitigation…
Continue reading20 NGOs call upon EU ministers to explain what they will do to protect the eel
The eel is critically endangered. The EU Commission has proposed to ban EU marine catches of adult eels to increase possibilities for…
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