REGIONAL EURASIAN WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK
A Region of the Global Wildland Fire Network
Rationale and Introduction
Initiatives to foster the cooperation in wildland fire issues in the Baltic region go back to the late 1990s and were a focus activity of the Work of the UN-ECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire until 2014. With the creation of the Global Wildland Fire Network the regional cooperation was instrumental under the Regional Baltic Wildland Fire Network, later entitled Regional Eurasian Wildland Fire Network. The network is one of six networks within the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
The overall aim of the regional initiative that is described in the documents provided below is in line with the Baltic 21 Action Programme, an initiative for the application of the Agenda 21 in the Baltic Sea Region, Article 15 of the Helsinki Convention, and the objectives of the work of the Nordic Council.
- Forest Fires in the Baltic Region: National and International Issues
- The First Baltic Conference on Forest Fires (Poland 1998): Rationale and Results
- The Baltic Exercise for Fire Information and Resources Exchange (BALTEX FIRE 2000): Report
- UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire
- Helsinki Declaration on Cooperation in Wildland Fire Management in the Baltic Region (10 May 2004)
- UNECE/FAO Regional Forum on Cross-boundary Fire Management and the International Wildfire Preparedness Mechanism (IWPM)
- 2014 OSCE Ministerial Council Decision 6/14 Enhancing Disaster Risk Reduction, tasking the OSCE Executive Structures and the OSCE Office of Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) with DRR with emphasis on exchange of knowledge and experience in fire management
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