{"id":29775,"date":"2023-09-08T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/event\/our-baltic-conference\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:29:02","slug":"our-baltic-conference","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/event\/our-baltic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Baltic Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is organising the 2<sup>nd <\/sup>edition of the <strong>Our Baltic Conference<\/strong> in Palanga (Lithuania) on 29 September 2023. This high-level event will bring together ministers from the 8 EU countries surrounding the Baltic Sea (Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Sweden).<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius and ministers will look at what has been achieved since the first <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/events\/our-baltic-conference-2020-09-28_en\">Our Baltic Conference in 2020<\/a><a class=\"wt-link wtLaco\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu\/our-baltic-conference_en#modal\" aria-controls=\"laco-modal\"><span title=\"Search for available translations of the preceding link\"><i>EN<\/i><b class=\"wtLacoBullet\" aria-label=\"en\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/b><\/span><\/a>, and what still needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a special focus on unexploded munitions from World Wars. Some 300 000 tonnes of unexploded munitions still lie at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, causing pollution and preventing the development of economic activities at sea.<\/p>\n<p>This conference will be an opportunity to discuss, collaborate and agree on a joint action to address the current challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The main topics will be<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>environment &amp; fisheries<\/strong> &#8211; progress made on the actions announced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/system\/files\/2020-09\/ministerial_declaration_our_baltic_conference.pdf\">Ministerial Declaration<\/a> of the 2020 Our Baltic conference<\/li>\n<li><strong>economic activities linked to the sea (&#8216;blue economy&#8217;) <\/strong>&#8211; finding ways to allow activities at sea to flourish (e.g. offshore renewable energy, aquaculture, bioeconomy, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>unexploded munition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ecl-media-container__media alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/oe_theme_medium_no_crop\/public\/2023-07\/quote-commissioner.png?itok=FBhEpazc\" alt=\"Quote The Baltic Sea is not in good shape. It's time to save this sea for all of us and for future generations. \" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is organising the 2nd edition of the Our Baltic Conference in Palanga (Lithuania) on 29 September 2023. This high-level event will bring together ministers from the 8 EU countries surrounding the Baltic Sea (Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Sweden). Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius and ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/29775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/29775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29775"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticwind.eu\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=29775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}