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Baltic Sea Regional Project

Baltic Sea Regional Project. Inesis Ki š kis, World Bank. Baltic Sea Environment Program. The Baltic Sea Environment Program is a regional environmental program that has progressed from “ planning ” to “ implementation. ”. Why a Baltic Sea Environment Program?.

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Baltic Sea Regional Project

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  1. Baltic Sea Regional Project Inesis Kiškis, World Bank

  2. Baltic Sea Environment Program The Baltic Sea Environment Program is a regional environmental program that has progressed from “planning” to “implementation.”

  3. Why a Baltic Sea Environment Program? • Baltic Sea is a source of well being of 90 million people • Since 1950 the environmental quality of the Baltic Sea has considerably degraded

  4. What Triggered Degradation? • Natural vulnerabilities • Semi-enclosed sea • Persistent water stratification • Long residence of the water volume • Slow decomposition rate • Human contribution: • Large nutrient loads • Accumulation of toxic substances

  5. Prioritization of activities • One can not do everything at once • 132 “hot spots” identified • Source-point pollution vs. non-point pollution: load contribution is equal • Decision: municipal and industrial sources are “easier” to start with

  6. What has been done? • A number of water and wastewater facilities in Eastern Baltic cities upgraded • Pollution load significantly reduced • Water companies strengthened institutionally

  7. Example – Daugavpils, Latvia

  8. Example – Klaipeda, Lithuania

  9. What did we learn? Investment is not the only answer for achieving the goals of the Program • Well defined objectives and priorities • Clear policy frameworks • Institutional strengthening • Well targeted investments

  10. Second Generation of Projects • To address the non-point source pollution: • Rural Environmental Protection Project. • Baltic Sea Regional Project

  11. Objective of the Project “To create some preconditions for application of the ecosystem approach in managing the Baltic Sea Large Marine Ecosystem in order to achieve and maintain sustainable biological productivity of the Baltic Sea”

  12. Goals of the Project • Facilitate strengthening of regional institutions through capacity building efforts • Develop and apply an ecosystem-based management strategy to the BSLME • Assess and evaluate the socio-economic effects of the ecosystem-based management for farming, fishing and coastal communities

  13. Baltic Sea Regional ProjectComponent 1: Large Marine Ecosystem Activities, ICESOrganisation BSSG Baltic WG:s and SG:s Advisory Com Ecosystem Advisory Com Environment Advisory Com Fisheries C1C, ICES LME-team HELCOM IBSFC Baltic 21 WWF C1AC Coordination Center Fisheries Riga Coordination Center Ecosystem Health Gdynia Coordination Center GIS Data Vilnius Coordination Center Productivity Riga Coordination Center Socio-economy Tallinn Lead Laboratory ICES surveys Kaliningrad Lead Laboratory Coast fish monit Tallinn Lead Laboratory Biol. Eff.monit Gdynia Lead Laboratory Phytob.monit, SOOP Tallinn Lead Laboratory Zooplankton Gdynia Lead Laboratory alien species Klaipeda Lead Laboratory fish age/stomach Riga Lead Laboratory Salmon restor. Riga Lead Laboratory Histopathology Kaliningrad International consultants National Laboratories and Institutes

  14. Project organization Baltic Sea Steering Group HELCOM ICES IBSFC Coordinators Baltic Sea Advisory Com Advisory Com Advisory Com C1 C2 Ecosystem Com.s/WG.s Environment Fisheries Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia CC, LL, LIU CC, LL, LIU CC, LL, LIU CC, LL CC, LL, LIU International Consultants National Laboratories/authorities

  15. Coordinated Effort • HELCOM in Cooperation with IBSFC and ICES • Riparian Governments • Non-Governmental Organizations • Scientific Research Institutions • Fishermen, Farmers and their Organizations • Bi- and Multilateral Financiers

  16. Duration of the Project • First phase – 2003 - 2005 • Phases 2 and 3 may follow if Phase 1 is successful

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