North-East Atlantic Environment Summit

The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment will host the Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission in Bergen, Norway, 23 - 24 September 2010

The Ministers and representatives from the 16 Contracting Parties, with the invited governmental observers from our near neighbours in the Baltic region Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Russian Federation, together with the countries bordering the North Atlantic including Canada and the United States of America and the invited observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations will be present.

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Topics

  • KnowSeas
    The Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas) project is supported by the European Commission under the Environment (including climate change) Theme of...
  • Lewis Pugh
    In July 2007 Lewis Pugh became the first person to complete a long distance swim at the Geographic North Pole. The swim, in water ranging in temperature between minus 1.7ºC and...
  • Climate Change
    Geological storage of CO2 OSPAR has taken on a proactive role providing sound regulation of sub-seabed geological storage of CO2. The regulatory framework, which was adopted as a...
  • Ecosystem approach
    Professor David Johnson, Executive Secretary of the OSPAR Commission, presents the ecosystem approach. For the purpose of the OSPAR Convention, the ecosystem approach is defined...
  • Maud Fontenoy
    “Oceans represent 71% of the globe, and are the engines allowing life on Earth. Nevertheless, today they are witnessing climate change hitting our planet, and they are raising...

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