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When disaster strikes – who steps up? At the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2026 in Tallinn on 12 May, three projects working on disaster risk reduction and crisis preparedness joined forces to run an interactive flood simulation and role-play exercise based on real-life data from a major flood event in Kristiansand, Norway.
As security concerns rise across the Baltic Sea Region, climate impacts continue to test our societies’ ability to withstand and respond to disruption.
The new ClimaResponse project brings together municipalities, researchers and regional organisations to strengthen climate resilience across the Baltic Sea Region.
Two new projects involving the CBSS have been approved for EU funding and are set to begin in early 2025, focusing on climate resilience and volunteerism in disaster risk reduction.
At the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2023 in Riga, the CBSS will co-organise five key workshops, delving into pressing issues ranging from societal security and resilience to climate adaptation and youth, underscoring its continued commitment to shaping regional discussions.
The Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023 (BSSC 2023), scheduled for August 21-25, 2023, in Helsinki, is set to bring together hundreds of scientists working on matters concerning the Baltic Sea Region.
The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) has participated in the Save the Baltic Sea information initiative, launched in Sweden on 19 June 2023 in collaboration with Svenska Dagbladet and hallbarhetsverige.se. Take a moment to read an article by Grzegorz Poznański, Director General of the CBSS, highlighting offshore wind energy as a promising solution for a sustainable future.
The Baltic Offshore Wind Forum, held in Berlin on 9 May 2023, brought together Foreign Ministers and high-level representatives of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Member States, as well as key stakeholders, to discuss the potential of offshore wind power for a sustainable and secure energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region.
On 17-18 April 2023, the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) organises a project workshop with experts from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) to identify existing gaps and challenges in climate change adaptation in the region and to develop the project concept for a future project aimed to improve the capacity of smaller towns and municipalities in approaching climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
To improve the capacity of municipalities to tackle climate change and its effects, the CliMaLoc project presented its Handbook for Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Baltic Sea Region during a webinar on 14 March 2023.
Young experts from the Baltic Sea Youth Working Group coordinated by the Council of the Baltic Sea States put decision-makers and experts in the hot seat during the online Baltic Stakeholder Conference 2023 organised by HELCOM on March 9 to draw attention to how far behind the implementation of the Baltic Sea Action Plan is.
At the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2022 in Lappeenranta, Finland, one of the largest pan-Baltic policy events, decision makers and experts focused on the concrete implementation of the current strategies and action plans on “Saving the sea”, “Connecting the region” and “Increasing prosperity”, amid the backdrop of the current multiple crises.
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