7 Baltic islands improve the environment
The "Gotland initiative’ from August 2006 put the Baltic Sea environment on the political agenda. The regional organisations, including the network of the 7 largest islands in the Baltic Sea (B7), were gathered at a meeting on Bornholm 16 – 17 April to follow up on the goals to improve the environment. The next meeting will be on Saarema in June 2008.
Asmund Kristoffersen, chair of the Nordic Council's Environment and Natural Resources Committee, represented the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, BSPC, at the conference. In addition MPs Veronica Thörnroos from Åland and Donatas Jankauskas from Litauen took part. They are both members of the BSCP working group on eutrophication.
Asmund Kristoffersen said in his speech that the work to improve the marine environment must go on until we can all be proud of the way we treat the Baltic Sea.
"The working group will present its final report to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference in August in Berlin. I am under no illusions that the report will dramatically change conditions but I believe that our work will be one more weight to tip the scales in the direction of concrete action."
