The resolution calls on governments around the Baltic and in the EU to co-ordinate and co-operate on strategies in advance of the environment summit in Poznan in 2008 and the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.

The BSPC wants to encourage closer co-operation to cope with and prevent the consequences of climate change.

The resolution also placed heavy emphasis on energy co-operation. The BSPC countries would like existing energy partnerships in the region to develop an integrated and optimised regional approach to energy issues. The resolution also states that the BSPC will promote initiatives to develop renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy savings in the Baltic Sea Region.

It is important that the countries commit to implementing HELCOM's Baltic Sea Action Plan, and develop national programmes to be evaluated by HELCOM's ministerial meeting in 2010 at the latest.

As far as the labour market and social issues are concerned, the BSPC would like to see fair and clear rules for the mobility of labour and for starting new companies.

The Swedish chairperson of the BSPC, Sinikka Bohlin, signed off at the end of the conference on Gotland, the island of the roses, passing the baton to Christina Gestrin of Finland who will head up the work until the next annual conference in Denmark, 30 August – 1 September 2009.