Baltic Sea States
Subregional
Co-operation
Sustainable development and climate change
In the face of the climate crisis and most urgent need to address it on all levels of governance the BSSSC commits to promote the related issues and work for solutions in economic, social and environmental areas to help mitigate the problem and achieve sustainable development in all its dimensions. The BSSSC will follow the EU and UN work and the related documents and reports in the field.
The BSR is highly vulnerable to climate change and the capacities of all stakeholders must be used to design effective policies on mitigation and adaptation through a bottom-up and multi-sector approach as well as through in-depth information campaigns.
BSSSC will:
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Promote the Green Deal among regional and local policy makers and civil society and contribute as much as possible.
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Cooperate with the Baltic 2030 Unit in CBSS and participate in the Expert Group on Sustainable Development (EGSD). Contribute to the implementation of the Baltic 2030 Action Plan - adopted by the CBSS in June 2017.
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Link the work with the actions of the Horizontal Action Climate in the EUSBSR - to follow up on local and regional actions in relation to the Paris Agreement.
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Promote and monitor the Vilnius Declaration, in which the Baltic Sea countries have embarked on a rapid expansion of offshore wind and transmission capacity. As early as 2023, Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Poland and Sweden committed to increase offshore wind in the Baltic Sea from 3.1 GW today to 19.6 GW by 2030.
Energy & Climate Rapporteur to BSSSC
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