Past Events

Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (MESMA) Final Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. MESMA scientists look forward to share their findings and experiences, and discuss the policy, practice and science of marine spatial planning with you. Therefore, we would like to invite you to the MESMA Final Conference, which will be held in Lisbon on the 8-10 October 2013. Register now Please register via our website www.mesma.org. The fee is 105 Euros for the three days, including the conference dinner. Deadline for submission of abstracts and outlines is 1 July 2013.

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• MESMA Website

The annual Marine Environment seminar takes place 8-9 October. The state of Sweden's marine environment will be presented and discussed, with the starting point on the results of the national marine environmental monitoring.

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• Havsmiljöseminariet

The “Baltic Sea Conference 2013 – Blue Growth, Sustainability and Water Industries” aims at bringing all relevant stakeholders together back-to-back with the 2013 Helcom Ministerial meeting in Copenhagen 3 October. As Baltic Development Forum (BDF) is cooperating with the Danish Helcom Presidency, responsible Ministers for the Environment will join the conference, which is organised by BDF and the European Commission (DG Mare) together with Clean Shipping – Priority Area of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. In making the Baltic Sea Region a European model and testing ground for these new policies, Baltic Development Forum will work with regional partners in forming a new water alliance. Please see the conference draft programme.  

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• Agenda

Environment Ministers from the nine countries bordering the Baltic Sea will meet to negotiate a package of policies which aim to improve the health and state of the Baltic. HELCOM has posed the question: after six years of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP), are Baltic countries on track to reach Good Environmental Status by 2020? FISH, together with other stakeholders, has initiated the Race for the Baltic campaign, which is working to ensure improved biodiversity and marine protection, an end to overfishing, and a reduction in eutrophication.

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• HELCOM information for the Ministerial meeting
• HELCOM associated documents
• Race for the Baltic petition

Ahead of the Ministerial meeting on 3 October, national civil servants will seek to iron out issues ahead of the final negotiation. FISH, together with other stakeholders, has initiated the Race for the Baltic campaign, which is working to ensure improved biodiversity and marine protection, an end to overfishing, and a reduction in eutrophication.  

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• Further information

Agenda forthcoming.