Environment

Background

Since 2009, NordGen's mandate includes the environmental aspects of conservation and sustainable use of farm and forest genetic resources.

This includes for instance:

• Protection of wild relatives to our cultivated plants in their natural environments.
• The relation between genetic resources and climate change
• NordGen's own environmental impact.
• Strengthening the cooperation between the environment sector and the agricultural and forestry sectors in the Nordic countries in their work with genetic resources.

Since April 2009 NordGen has its own environmental coordinator, and since August 2009, NordGen also has an Environmental Coordination Group consisting of representatives for both environment and agriculture and forestry from all Nordic countries. The Faroe islands has their own representative in the group.

Minutes from the Environmental coordination group meetings

Meeting 1

Meeting 2

Meeting 3

Meeting 4

Appendixes meeting 4:
Nina Vik's presentation about the Nagoya protocol

Juha Kantanen's presentation about the Nordic Brown Bee project

Juha Kantanen's presentation about the animal genetic resources and climate change adaptation

The Danish report on Crop Wild Relatives

The Environmental coordination group's report on genetic resources and climate change

Meeting 5

Meeting 6

Meeting 7

Photo: Simon Jeppson

Read more

Climate change and biodiversity

Conference:
Genetic Resources in Protected Areas - management and access  RöstÃ¥nga 1-2 December 2009 - Presentations and workshop reports now available online.

Contact

Environmental coordinator:

Erik Persson
NordGen
Box 41
230 53 Alnarp
Sweden

Telephone: +46 (0)40 53 65 57
Mobile phone: +46 (0)76 55 49 523
Fax: +46 (0)40 53 66 50
Emai: erik.persson@nordgen.org