“Saving the Baltic Sea is a matter of ecological survival and of preserving continued deliveries from its ecosystem services. It is also an opportunity to gain competitiveness in Clean Tech and Green and Blue Growth, which will bring jobs, a sounder environment and better health” said Christina Gestrin, BSPC Co-Observer with HELCOM, at the HELCOM […]
Gestrin Addresses XIV International Baltic Sea Days in St Petersburg
“There are certain promising signs that the measures taken so far have paid some environmental dividends. However, there are still several cities and municipalities that have no modern waste water treatment facilities whatsoever. Continued efforts and resources must therefore be allocated to the construction of waste water treatment plants and to modernize decaying urban and […]
Bretschneider at HELCOM 34/2013
Ms Sylvia Bretschneider, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, BSPC Co-Observer to HELCOM, attended the 34th HELCOM meeting in Helsinki 5-6 March. Addressing the meeting, Ms Bretschneider informed that she and Ms Christina Gestrin, BSPC Co-Observer to HELCOM, have submitted a letter to the HELCOM Chair containing a number of amendment proposals that could serve as input to the process […]
BSPC maintains support to the HELCOM BSAP
“BSPC will continue to support the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan as the central tool for the restoration of good ecological status of the Baltic Sea by 2021” says Christina Gestrin, Chairman of the BSPC, attending the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting in Moscow on 20 May. “Already at the Ministerial Meeting in Krakow in 2007, the […]