Delivering global commitments in the Baltic Sea Region

The success of the Baltic Sea region in nominating Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and the emerging plans regarding Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs) was in key focus in the Side Event "Delivering global commitments in the Baltic Sea Region" on 30 June 2022, which took place during the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

The aim was to present marine protection as a concrete example of the instrumental role of the regional sea conventions in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life under water – in particular and other global commitments in general, at the macro-regional and sea-basin levels.

The side event presented HELCOM’s Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) 2021–2030 as a best practice example for an ecosystem-based approach to marine management from science to action.

Provisional Agenda

Moderator: Lilian Busse, HELCOM Chair

I Opening remarks

High level representatives of Germany, Finland and Sweden

II Key-note speakers: where are we now?

- Imèn Meliane, Vice Chair of the IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas for North Africa, Middle East and West Asia (WCPA)
- Rüdiger Strempel, Executive Secretary of HELCOM
- Mikhail Durkin, Executive Secretary of Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) - Download PDF

III Panel: Critical view: where should we go?

- Mikhail Durkin, Executive Secretary of Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB)
- Jannica Haldin, Deputy Executive Secretary of HELCOM
- Imèn Meliane, Vice Chair of the IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas for North Africa, Middle East and West Asia (WCPA)
- Dominic Pattinson, Executive Secretary of OSPAR
- Sebastian Unger, Research Group Leader, Ocean Governance, IASS Potsdam

Outcomes
Key Outcomes at HELCOM website

Gallery
Credit: HELCOM


The event was co-organized by the
- Ministry of the Environment of Estonia
- Ministry of the Environment of Finland
- Ministry of the Environment of Germany
- Ministry of the Environment of Latvia
- Ministry of the Environment of Sweden
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
- World Commission on Protected Area (WCPA)
- Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB)
- Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR)
- Commission for the Protection of the Baltic Sea Marine Environment (HELCOM).



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