Baltic Sea Action Summit 2010
With the purpose of gathering all parties, the President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen, together with Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen of Finland and the Chairman of the Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG), Ilkka Herlin, launched a joint initiative in May 2009: The Baltic Sea Action Summit, which was arranged in Helsinki on 10 February 2010.
At the high-level Summit, states, companies and NGO’s met to present their commitments to solve the problems of the Baltic Sea. The international media showed a high interest in the new way of working, a social innovation, by which the Baltic Sea can be rescued by cooperation between all stakeholders of society.
The Summit was part of a long-term process, and gathered all necessary parties in the same room with the aim of making sustainable decisions and commit to taking concrete actions.
Read more at: www.bsas.fi
Webcasts from the Baltic Sea Action Summit: http://formin.finland.fi/multimedia/bsas/videos/Arrivals.html