Experts suggest routes to cleaner Baltic Sea

Environment Daily 1949, 27/09/05

Sweden should make immediate efforts to remove phosphorus from detergents and point sources to counter eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, a panel of international experts has recommended. 

In a report for the Swedish environmental protection agency, the panel says that in the longer-term actions will have to switch to diffuse sources and restoring nutrient-holding features of the landscape. 

Sweden should consider funding phosphorus reduction at significant point sources in other Baltic states, the experts also suggest.  No eutrophication is a key official goal of Swedish environmental policy. 

Follow-up: press release http://www.internat.naturvardsverket.se/index.php3?main=/documents/press/2005/p050927.htm, 

 report http://www.naturvardsverket.se/dokument/fororen/overgod/eutro/expeutro.pdf.