HELCOM has recently joined the EMERGE project on shipping emissions in EU marine waters and was one of the 18… Read More »
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The update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan and UN Voluntary Commitments are addressed at HELCOM’s annual meeting
Actions for a healthier Baltic Sea and HELCOM’s Voluntary Commitments to the UN Ocean Conference 2020 were addressed in Helsinki… Read More »
Baltic Sea Action Plan: New actions are proposed during HELCOM stakeholder event
Concrete actions for a healthier Baltic Sea were proposed in Helsinki this week during the HELCOM Stakeholder Conference 2020 that aimed at… Read More »
Concrete measures against eutrophication are elaborated in Helsinki during expert workshop on nutrient recycling
In a bid to address the Baltic Sea’s eutrophication problem, about 40 experts on agriculture and wastewater attended a workshop in… Read More »
Sea trout are back in Lithuanian river after successful restoration under the RETROUT project
©Piotr Wawrzyniuk – stock.adobe.com Sea trout are reproducing again in parts of the Smeltalė river in Lithuania after a successful… Read More »
Report on microplastics in the Baltic Sea provides a common baseline for policy-makers and researchers
With the recent publication of the Review of existing policies and research related to microplastics under the FanpLESStic-sea project, policy-makers and researches in… Read More »
HELCOM Expert Interview: Sari Luostarinen on nutrients, eutrophication and agriculture
Sari Luostarinen is a Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resources Institute of Finland (Luke) and is the current Chair… Read More »
HELCOM Expert Interview: Susanne Heitmüller on the management of wastewater from ships
Dr Susanne Heimüller works for the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and is the Chair of HELCOM Maritime Working… Read More »
Handling of wastewater from ships in ports of the Baltic Sea is facilitated by new guidance
The handling of wastewater from ships in ports of the Baltic Sea just got easier with the newly published Technical Guidance for the handling of wastewater in Ports of the Baltic Sea Special Area under MARPOL Annex IV.
Highlighting their role in achieving the global ocean targets, the world’s regional seas converge in Helsinki
If not their waters, then at least the experts of the world’s regional seas converged in Helsinki in late November… Read More »
