A greener planet – Nordic environmental successes

• One of the world’s most extensive forms of regional collaboration. • Co-operation takes place in the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Council, the inter-governmental and inter-parliamentarybodies respectively. • The aim is to achieve added value, Nordic synergy, for all Nordic citizens. • Nordic environmental co-operation is managed by the ministers for the environment. • The Environmental Action Plan 2013–2018 is the basis for the environmental co-operation. • Environmental co-operation focuses, amongst other things, on green community development, climate change, biological diversity and hazardous chemicals