EU MARITIME DAY

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EU MARITIME DAY
Aspects of Sustainable Maritime Development
learning from experience
10 years of maritime sustainable development in
action
Dr. Caroline Hoffmann, Baltic 21, May 18th, 2009,
Rome, Italy
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• Agenda 21
• for the Baltic Sea region
• Actions on Sustainable Development

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Multi-stakeholder involvement...
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...on equal footing
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The way we work
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What was sustainability again?

• The capacity to maintain a certain process or
  state indefinitely
• Meeting the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs
• Brundtland Commission report
• Our Common Future 1987

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3 pillars of sustainability
Environment limiting factor!!
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Sustainability
is what will ensure that our region will be an
environmentally friendly, prosperous, accessible
and attractive, as well as safer and more secure
place.
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Some challenges to sustainable development

• Habitat destruction
• Eutrophication
• Overfishing
• Shipping and marine transport
• Unsustainable production and consumption patterns
• Climate change

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Sustainable 2,0 ha
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Unsustainable development
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Positive trends towards sustainable development
Renewable Energy Energy efficiency and access
to clean
technologies and fuels Environmental management
systems Political commitment to sustainable
development
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The role of Baltic 21

• Policy and practice through
  multistakeholder and multisectoral
  approaches
• Practical solutions from projects
• Cooperation and support to other processes
  such as HELCOM and CBSS
• Building structures
• where there were none before!

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Baltic 21 Lighthouse Projects

• demonstrate sustainable development in practice,
• produce region wide results,
• ensure high project visibility,
• involve as many stakeholders from as many
  countries and sectors as possible,
• promote the broader application of existing and
  new solutions.

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9 projects 200 partners!
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Reducingmarinepollution
GOAL Change peoples attitude and behaviour in
order to reduce marine pollution in the Baltic
Sea
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Reducingmarinepollution

• focused on measures to attain a balanced marine
  environment
• reducing marine pollution among fishermen,
  seamen, leisure craft owners
• training seminars and promoting better
  sustainable development in guest harbours and
  marinas

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Target groups

• Leisure craft owners
• Private and municipality-owned marinas and guest
  harbours
• Fishing sector (commercial)
• Seamen 
• Regional and national authorities
• Media

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Focus areas

• Educational training seminars for key personnel
  in guest harbours/marinas
• Best practice demonstration sites of guest
  harbours/marinas
• Media training for journalists on sustainable
  development
• Initiation of a Code of Conduct on Marine
  Awareness for fishermen
• Marine Awareness Courses for fishermen and seamen
  
• Hydroacoustic studies on pelagic fish in Baltic
  Sea
• Pan-Baltic information campaign among key groups

33 partners (1 January 2005 - 31 December 2007)
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Activities

• Marine awareness courses for fishermen and seamen
• Establish the Blue Flag concept
• Establish Individual Blue Flag for boat owners 
• Build a network between different stakeholders
• Establish transnational environmental training
  programme
• train key people at boat clubs and marinas on the
  effects of marine pollution
• Promote a higher awareness among leisure craft
  owners, fishermen and seamen of the issues of
  marine sustainable development
• Run a PR campaign across the region supporting
  the goals of the project

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Activities

• Courses for fishermen and seamen
• aim to enhance environmental knowledge and
  discuss sustainable shipping among fishermen,
  seamen, cadets and people working within
  authorities, private companies and NGOs
• Lectures
• Field studies
• Group discussions

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Focus areas

• Blue Flag Scheme
• Compliance with 23 criteria covering
• 1) Environmental Education and Information
• 2) Environmental Management
• 3) Safety and Services
• 4) Water Quality
• ?awarded for one season at a time. If some of the
  imperative criteria are not fulfilled during the
  season or the conditions change, the Blue Flag
  will be withdrawn

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Focus areas

• Blue Flag Scheme
• Extension of Blue Flag Award for harbours and
  beaches
• Introduction of Individual Blue Flag Award for
  leisure boats
• Feasibility study for initiating an Individual
  Blue Flag Award for passenger ferries

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Outcomes

• Blue Flag Scheme
• aim achieve sustainable development at beaches
  and marinas, ferries and individual boats
• Six different Best Practice marinas were chosen
  within the project. All achieved the eco-label
  Blue Flag
• Individual Blue Flag criteria were establised

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Outcomes

• Marina Handbook
• Practical information on how to operate using
  good safety standards
• How to provide excellent services while caring
  for the environment
• Instructions for environmental management systems
  for marinas
• Aimed at marina managers
• and personnel

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Outcomes

• Project FILM
• shows examples of different environmental
  alternatives for the target groups
• demonstrating Best Practices

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POSTERS
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BALTIC SeaBreeze
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BaltCoast

• A pilot initiative for the support of integrated
  coastal zone management and development in the
  Baltic Sea Region.
• bridging the gap between science and practice

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Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in the
BSR
development of joint recommendations for an
integrated coastal zone development
strategy. integrate them in the overall strategy
for sustainable development in the BSR. This
could help to implement the recommendation on
ICZD on national, regional and local level
leading to institutional and procedural changes.
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Goals

• integrated approach for finding solutions within
  the region including both off-shore and all types
  of land-side coastal areas
• link concrete, practical measures in selected
  regions with the process of statutory spatial
  planning
• produce common approaches and coordinated
  procedures for conflict resolution between the
  various stakeholders

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• Conflict?
• What
• Conflict?

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ICZM

• integrated coastal zone management (ICZM)
• Integrates the needs for development with those
  for protection
• Includes all types of coastal areas, e.g. areas
  of intensive tourism, urban expansion areas,
  infrastructure development areas etc
• Equally includes off-shore and land-side coastal
  areas
• Links the project orientated approach with the
  process of statutory spatial planning in widening
  the participation to all public and private
  actors that can contribute

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Activities

• Conference BaltCoast 2004
• Managing the Baltic Sea, Rostock, Germany
• Give a comprehensive overview on Baltic coastal
  zone management aspects, to enhance an exchange
  of information and to bridge the gap between
  coastal science and practice
• focused on research, planning and management of
  the Baltic Sea.
• Increased Coordination Local, regional and
  transnational working groups have been set up and
  are meeting on a regular basis

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Focus Areas

• Role of Spatial Planning in ICZM
• ICZM is the responsibility of political bodies of
  all levels
• Do not create ICZM specific institutions
  improve the use of existing ones
• Cross-sectoral Agencies at Regional Level should
  take the Lead for implementation
• Link the regional approach with case specific
  solutions
• Spatial Planning should take a central role in
  ICZM
• The focus should be on implementation rather than
  on theoretical ICZM discussions.

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Outcomes

• Recommendations for ICZM
• Increase the Role of Spatial Planning
• Multi-Agency and Multi-Sectoral Harmonisation
• Spatial Planning and ICZM methodologies very
  similar
• Good Information Basis
• Familiar with Modern Methods of knowledge
  Organisation
• Proven Methods of Participation and Conflict
  Management
• Harmonisation of Development with Nature
  Protection
• Long-Term Scenarios

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Outcomes

• Implementation of Sea-Use-Planning (extend
  spatial planning to the off-shore side)
• Agree on the systematic information exchange
  concerning off-shore uses,
• Prepare spatial plans for offshore areas where
  needed and
• Introduce project oriented and cross-sectoral
  coordination procedures.

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Outcomes

• Necessary Improvements of Spatial Planning in
  order to meet the needs of an effective ICZM
• More flexibility in Spatial Planning to meet ICZM
  Needs
• Overcoming traditional planning (administrative)
  borders
• Strengthening Public Participation
• Improve vertical co-operation and build up local
  ICZM capacity
• Better Utilization/Consideration of existing
  Instruments.

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Outcomes

• Ways to improve ICZM Implementation
• Preparation of regional ICZM Plans
• Focus on ICZM Deliverables
• ICZM as Pre-condition for external Funding
• Link ICZM to development Issues - Focus on
  mid-term programming
• Use Competition Incentives / Sanctions

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Follow-up project

• Aim to develop the tools and capacities for
  effective integrated planning in coastal zones
  and maritime areas in the Baltic, Adriatic and
  Black Sea regions
• Introduced the completely new spatial planning
  instrument Maritime Planning
• Linked Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  and Maritime Planning with the processes of
  statutory spatial planning in selected number of
  pilot projects
• Spread the use of modern geographical information
  systems (GIS) for an effective transnational
  planning
• Contributed to the creation and implementation of
  EU policy on coastal zones and maritime areas,
  such as the Green Book and Blue Book, and led to
  creation of numerous national laws and strategies
• PlanCoast had 16 partners representing spatial
  planning departments or responsible regional
  authorities

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BaltCoast
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Sustainable Ports and Cities

• Creating ecologically, socially and economically
  sustainable ports in the Baltic Sea region
• joint project of 18 ports, cities and other
  partners from all sides of the Baltic Sea
• September 2003 - December 2005

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Sustainable Ports and Cities

• Common environmental practices for all
• Baltic Sea Region ports by 2005
• Innovative European pilot project identifying
  good practices for ports in prevention of ships
  emissions to the air and receiving and handling
  of waste and waste waters from the ships.
• aimed at creation of voluntary common
  environmental practices and standards for all
  ports at the Baltic Sea by end of 2005

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Goals

• creating voluntary common environmental practices
  and standards for all ports at the Baltic Sea by
  end of 2005
• good practices (in prevention of ships emissions
  to the air and receiving and handling of waste
  and waste waters) identified and agreed upon will
  be turned into common practices of all
  participating ports
• Creating the Baltic Memorandum of Understanding
  on Sustainable Ports

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Partners

• City of Lübeck (Germany, lead partner)
• City and Port of Helsinki (Finland)
• Port of Kolding (Denmark)
• City of Malmö (Sweden)
• City of Mariehamn (Finland)
• City of Pori (Finland)
• Port of Rostock (Germany)
• City and Port of Stockholm (Sweden)
• Port of Szczecin (Poland)
• City and Port of Turku (Finland)

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Goals

• common environmental standards
• provide all Baltic ports with common
  environmental standards and sustainable
  development guidelines in order to prevent
  competition at the cost of the environment.

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Political backing

• need for the project has been strongly recognised
  by ports and shipping companies
• politically backed by the Union of the Baltic
  Cities
• politically backed by Baltic 21

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Outcomes

• Ship-shore power interface
• Pilot installation of a ship-shore power
  interface in Lübeck-Travemünde ? demonstration
  for the Baltic Sea region.
• The ship-shore power interface decreases fuel
  consumption ? enables ships to disengage their
  engines in port
• pilot operation successful ? system can be
  implemented in other ports

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Outcomes

• joint policy document
• Baltic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on
  Sustainable Ports

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NEW HANSA
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• Policy input to EU
• Policy input to UN
• Pilot studies upgraded to full scale
  implementation
• Clean marina handbook for marina managers and
  personal
• Training seminars across borders
• PlanCoast handbook for spatial planning at sea
• Policy recommendations to Heads of Government

Results
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BALTIC 21 REPORTS to heads of Governments
Reaching a Landmark For the 7th BALTIC SEA
STATES SUMMIT, RIGA 4 JUNE 2008
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BALTIC 21
4 new LHPs
4 projects 80 partners!
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The world can and wants to learn from us but
BALTIC 21

• we should really do more at home first
• A large body of solutions exists. We need
• Dissemination
• Capacity building
• Technology transfer
• Scale successful pilot projects up!!

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is what will ensure that our region will be an
environmentally friendly, prosperous, accessible
and attractive, as well as safer and more secure
place
Yes we can!
Sustainability