Meeting
Pre-HELCOM NGOs meeting
March 5, 2019
Meeting
Pre-HELCOM NGOs meeting
Start date: March 5, 2019 10:00 AM
End date: March 5, 2019
Place: Helsinki, Finland
Address:
What is HELCOM?
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – also known as the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) – is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and a regional sea convention in the Baltic Sea area. HELCOM was established about four decades ago to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental cooperation. The HELCOM Secretariat is located in Helsinki, Finland. To know more about it.
Description
Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) and the Baltic Environment Forum (BEF) Group
organised one-day brainstorming session
on the environmental NGOs inputs to the revision of the BSAP, held on 5 March 2019 (10 – 16 o´clock) at HELCOM Secretariat premises (Katajanokanlaituri 6B, Helsinki, Finland). This meeting was arranged back-to-back with the annual meeting of the Helsinki Commission (6-7 March), where the outcomes of our discussions were presented.
Prior to the meeting we submitted a draft document for the discussion by the meeting participants.
Related documents:
Presentations:
Prior to the meeting we submitted a draft document for the discussion by the meeting participants.
Related documents:
Presentations:
- 2017 Baltic Sea Action Plan: history and forthcoming update processi, Susanna Kaasinen, HELCOM Secretariat
- WWF Baltic Scorecard: external follow-up and progress evaluation, Ottilia Thoreson, WWF BEP
- Key findings of the project ResponSEAble: Improving communications to foster awareness raising and capacity building, Hannah Sophia Weber, BEF Germany
- Brief introduction on the options for the way forward with developing consolidated NGO position and input to 2021 BSAP revision, Mikhail Durkin, CCB Secretariat