Great Barrier Reef Workshops
During two weeks in late September 2008, WWF organized a series of workshops with three people who were key in developing and implementing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The objective of the workshops was to give decision-makers and other stakeholders around the Baltic Sea a chance to learn from their knowledge and experience. Over 200 people participated in the 5 workshops organized across the region.
2008 Baltic Sea Scorecard
The nine states around the Baltic Sea all scored a bottom grade for their marine environmental performance, according to a WWF assessment presented at the annual Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm today. The nine countries were graded on how well they are doing on six separate areas: biodiversity, fisheries, hazardous substances, maritime transports, eutrophication, and on how well they have developed an integrated sea use management. The best grades were received by Germany, followed by Denmark, while Estonia ended up in third place.
No more EU-trophication! How CAP reform can save the Baltic Sea
In the last 150 years, the Baltic Sea has developed from a pristine, nutrient-poor, clear water sea to permanent eutrophic conditions. A key factor in the environmental degradation of the BalticSea is the intensification of agriculture – much of it in the last 50 years – in the surrounding drainage basin.
Effects of Climate Change on Eutrophication in the Northern Baltic Sea
This WWF report analyses the impacts of climate change on eutrophication in the northern waters of the Baltic Sea.
Baltic Sea Scorecard
The Baltic Score Card measures and grades the performance of the nine coastal Baltic Sea governments on a number of international and regional agreements in five areas of crucial importance to the Baltic Sea: maritime transport, pollution from hazardous substances, biodiversity protection, fisheries management and eutrophication.
Feeding the algae with tax money: EUTRO-farming and EU-trophication
The Baltic Sea is the largest brackishwater sea in the world. It is also the youngest sea on the planet which makes it one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. Over the past 100 years however the Baltic Sea has changed from a clear-water ecosystem to a eutrophic – nutrient rich – marine environment.
EU-trophication: Linking tax money to eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
Over the last century humans have transformed the Baltic Sea – a unique and highly vulnerable place – from a clear-water ecosystem into a eutrophic (nutrient rich) marine environment. Today, it is heavily contaminated by nutrients that cause eutrophication, algal blooms and a range of serious problems for the ecosystem and for the people living around, and earning a living from, the Baltic Sea.
