Environment

Document archive of the BEAC Working Group on Environment

Here are archived the documents of the WG on Environment. You can find the reports and meeting minutes with annexes of the working group and the task forces.

Meetings of the Environment Ministers

• Documents of the ministers meetings

Reports

• Report from the Working Group on Environment 2005-2007 
• Report from the Regional Working Group on Environment 2005-2007 
• Barents Hot Spots Facility Report, Moscow, Nov 9 2007 
• AMAP-NEFCO-Environmental Hot spot list 
• Arctic climate change - policy measures for the Barents Region
• Report of the Finnish WGE chairmanship 2003-2005 

Meeting Minutes of the WGE

• Meeting minutes of BEAC Working Group on Environment (WGE)  August 30-31, 2005 in Helsinki
• Minutes of the Meeting of BEAC Working Group on Environment (WGE) May 26-27, 2005 in St. Petersburg  
• Minutes of the Meeting of BEAC Working Group on Environment, January 26-27, 2005, Oulu
• Minutes of the Meeting of BEAC Working Group on Environment, 18 March 2004, Vuokatti, Finland [pdf]
• Minutes of BEAC Working Group on Environment (WGE) in Helsinki September 13-14, 2004 [pdf]. Annexes:Review of BEAC "hot spots",Barents environmental hot spots - ACAP cooperation
• Minutes on Water discussion of the Meeting of BEAC Working Group on Environment, 14 September 2004, Helsinki  [pdf].
• Minutes of the Joint Meeting of BEAC Working Group on Environment and Regional Working Group on Environment, 17 March, Vuokatti Finland [pdf] - Annexes: Action Programme for Finnish Chairmanship 2003-2005 [pdf]

Cleaner Production Task Force

• Minutes of the Cleaner Production Task Force Meeting in St. Petersburg May 27, 2005
• Minutes of the Cleaner Production Task Force Meeting in Oulu January 27, 2005
• Minutes of the Cleaner Production Task Force Meeting in Vuokatti March 16, 2004
• The Cleaner Production Task Force Meeting in Helsinki December 1-2, 2003  
• Policy document on a Cleaner Production strategy as an element of a life cycle perspective ­ presented by the Task Force on Cleaner Production

Hot Spots

• Updating of Environmental "Hot Spots" List in the Russian Part of the Barents Region: Proposal for Environmentally Sound Investment Projects [pdf]

Nature conservation and sustainable forestry

• A common approach to strengthen environmental considerations in forestry co-operation in the Barents Region [pdf]

Regional Working Group on Environment

• Meeting minutes
  • Kiruna, Sweden, 5 of October 2005
  • Bodö, Norway, 26-27 of April 2005
  • Syktyvkar, Russia, 15-16 of September 2003
  • St-Peterburg, Russia, 14-15 of October 2002 
• Barents 2010, WP 4 
• Local Agenda 21 and ecotourism. Proposal for Information and Training Package on Ecotourism in the Barents Region

International Contact Forum on Habitat Conservation in the Barents Region

• 4th Meeting of the International Contact Forum on Habitat Conservation in the Barents Region in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) on September 19-24, 2005.Resolution of the Meeting  (Russian version )
• Third meeting of The International Contact Forum on Habitat Conservation in the Barents Region in Kuhmo (Finland) on November 3-6, 2003.   Resolution of the meeting (Russian version)