Stockholm
Video Interviews contained above are the following:
Raphael Lotilla, Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA), Phillipines
Tonny Wagey, Arafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum, East Timor
Gerson Fumbuka, Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Warwick Sauer, Agulhas Somali Current LME, and Department of Fisheries, Rhodes University, South Africa
Parvin Farschi, UNDP/GEF Caspian Sea Project
Walter Lichem, Guinea Current LME
Jose Vicente Zapata, Colombia
Margaret Tuhumwire, Environmental Women in Action for Development, Uganda
Maria Eugenia Molares, UNDP,, Dominican Republic
Du Qun, Wuhan University, China, and Solange Teles Da Silva, State University of Amazonas, Brazil
Mish Hamid, IWLEARN
Christian Severin, GEF
Iqbal Kabir, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association and Paul Martin, University of Australia
Hubert Onibon, Volta River Basin, Ghana
Kevin Stephanus – Benguela Current LME
Sanya Wedemier – AMEP – CEP/UNEP Jamaica
Coastal Management Presentation
Final Workshop Report
Managing and Developing the Water Resources Assets in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia in Support of Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
The report demonstrates how effective water resources management can support sustainable economic development in sectors such as tourism, health, agriculture and industry while at the same time restoring ecosystem services in accordance with the Russian Water Act and the EU Water Framework Directive. The report outlines specific steps to be taken by the Kaliningrad Oblast internally and in partnership with its neighbours to achieve concrete benefits from better management of the water resources. Collective action amongst all the states in the Baltic Sea Region will be critical to reach the vision of a healthy Baltic Sea as agreed by the contracting partners to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and by the EU members States. The report is prepared by SIWI in partnership with the Nordic Dimension Foundation in the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia with input from experts from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.
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SIWI report recommends strengthened cooperation in the Baltic Sea basin for sustainable growth
SIWI published a paper giving key recommendations for collective action in the Baltic Sea Region line of the current legal political frameworks, to improve the environmental status of the Baltic Sea, which continues to suffer from water quality degradation related to increased activities within its basin. The paper provides an overview of the region and the environmental and political challenges it faces, describes the EU’s collective approach to addressing those challenges in the new EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on the environmental pillar, “Making the Baltic Sea Region an Environmentally Sustainable Place”. Furthermore, it assesses the legal framework related to the environment and water resources into which the strategy is placed relative to national law, EU law, international law, and some illustrative third party arrangements with non-EU member countries in the wider Baltic Sea region.
Four specific recommendations are offered related to the governance framework on how the member states and EU institutions might move forward with implementation of the strategy’s environmental pillar. These relate to assessing and strengthening the current fragmented institutional framework; improving the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the EU Baltic Sea Strategy; make a deepened legal assessment of overlapping international and EU law; and strengthening the existing EU Directive implementation in the EU member countries of the Baltic Sea Region.
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