Saving the Baltic Sea

Saving the Baltic Sea

I had never walked on the Baltic Sea before and when I stepped off the icebreaker, I was somewhat nervous. Ice stretched as far as the eye could see, and underneath me, an ocean.

It’s a sea that is described by the Baltic Sea Action Group as the most polluted in the world. The water, quite simply, is poisonous.

Large areas suffer from eutrophication, which means that theres no oxygen.

We are here in Helsinki to see if a group of nine countries can save the sea from a certain death.

We will see today whether Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, can persuade governments and business leaders to follow through on over a 100 commitments to save the Baltic.