Baltic Beat

Mia Pihlajamäki, 10.02.2010

Baltic Sea Action Summit in action

The Baltic Sea Action Group has summoned the heads of the states as well as corporations, governmental and non-governmental organisations to commit to concrete actions in order to save the Baltic Sea. Today, those who have made a commitment gather together in the Finlandia Hall in an event called the Baltic Sea Action Summit.

The event does not aim to a new international agreement, instead it reveals the commitments made. Only those actors who have made a commitment are allowed to participate. Those, who have not, can follow an online broadcasting at Yle Areena (http://areena.yle.fi/) and throuhg the BSAS webpage (www.bsas.fi).

 

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Maria Jokela, 14.01.2010

Promising news from Kaliningrad

Just before the Christmas Manager Jaakko Henttonen from the NDEP
(Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership) had a good news to share in the Baltic Sea Action Summit press conference: The process of building a new sewage treatment plant in Kaliningrad will continue.

The process was interrupted because of disagreements and mistrust between the international financiers and Kaliningrad authorities. Disagreements started when Kaliningrad city decided to reorganize the tender contest about the main contractor of the sewage treatment plant and then chose an own local candidate to run the project. According to Henttonen by doing this Kaliningrad violated jointly agreed principles. However, now it seems that parties have again found the mutual understanding and the process will go on.

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Probalt in Brief

The PROBALT project aims to make the prevention of the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea more effective by 1) analyzing the societal conditions for the effective protection of the Baltic Sea at three levels: national level, regional level and the European Union level; 2) providing tools to more effectively combat eutrophication; 3) increasing national concern about the state of the Baltic Sea in individual countries.

Probalt News

23.12.2011

PROBALT project ends December 31st 2011

The website will stay up for the time being.

The PROBALT team wants to thank all the collaborators for the past three years!

25.11.2011

Governing Europe's Most Polluted Sea Societal challenges of the Baltic Sea eutrophication prevention

PROBALT final seminar on November 29th 2011 in Berlin

31.10.2011

Probalt in Brussels

BONUS highlights for the European Community is organised on November 8th 2011 at the Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Brussels, Belgium