CBSS Baltic 21 Seminar

Improving the Baltic Sea region's capacity towards Sustainable Development

9 April 2015

Permanent Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

Slussplan 9, Stockholm

Programme

Registration, coffee and sandwiches

10:00 / Opening and Welcome / Jan Lundin Director General of the CBSS secretariat/Krista Kampus Head of Baltic 21, CBSS
10:10 / Participant Introductions / Alan AtKisson, Moderator
10:20 / Framing the Seminar (1):
Reviewing the work of the CBSS Expert Group on Sustainable Development and the upcoming CBSS-Baltic 21 long-term priorities / Ülle Vaht, EGSD Chair, Ministry of Environment, Estonia
10:35 / Framing the Seminar (2):
Reviewing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Partnerships – a proposal for a multilevel review at the High-Level Political Forum.
The Sustainable Development Goals – a universal challenge, with regional and national implications for all nations.
Impacts of the international SD agenda on BSR national-level implementation of SD. / Alan AtKisson
Jan-Gustav Strandenaes
Senior Adviser on Governance for Stakeholder Forum, United Kingdom
Dr. Joerg Mayer-Ries
Federal Minstry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
11:30 / Next stage in building sustainable Baltic Cities – preparing a new UBC action Programme / Björn Grönholm, Head of the UBC Commission of Environment Secretariat
11:50
12:00 / Plenary Discussion
Presentation of Study: “Assessing the status of sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region” (preliminary results) / Moderator
Overview: Neil Powell, Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University
Results to date: Sam Grönholm, Olga Zuin, CSD Uppsala
13:00 / Lunch
14:00 / “Tour de Table”: National responses to the preliminary results of the study / Moderator
14:30 / Discussion process, part 1: Reviewing the study, refining its results / Small working groups
15:00 / Plenary summary / Small group spokespersons
15:15 / Discussion process, part 2: Possibilities for enhanced collaboration in the CBSS/Baltic 21 context, in light of the Post-2015 agenda and SDGs / Small working groups (different mixture, brainstorming process)
15:30 / Plenary summary / Small group spokespersons
15:45 / Plenary discussion on results, conclusions, and recommendations to CBSS / Full group, moderated discussion
16:00 / Closing remarks, adjourn / CBSS/EGSD representatives
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