Cleaning up the Baltic Sea - NEFCO

The Baltic Sea is heavily polluted by industrial and agricultural pollutants. Untreated sewage, which for centuries has been dumped into the sea, is one of those major pollutants. This video is about how NEFCO (Nordic Environment Finance Corporation), together with Vodokanal, the St.Petersburg, Russia, waterworks company is doing its part to clean up the Baltic Sea by financing wastewater treatment operations.
http://www.nefco.org/newsroom/video_clips

NEFCO is an environmental financing institution, which was established in 1990 by the five Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Since its inception, the corporation has financed a wide range of environmental projects http://www.nefco.org/projects in Central and Eastern European countries as well as in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

The corporation gives priority to projects that reduce the release of climate gases, improve the ecological status of the Baltic Sea or mitigate the release of toxic pollutants.

More information about NEFCO: http://www.nefco.org/index.php

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• Baltic Sea
• The Baltic
• Gulf of Finland
• St Petersburg
• wastewater
• algae
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• phosphore
• nutrients
• environment finance
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• alga
• seaweed
• kelp
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• issues eutrophication