2001 Esbjerg Declaration

Ministerial Declaration of the 9th Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea

The 9th Wadden Sea Conference was held under the chairmanship of the Danish minister for the Environment and Energy Mr Svend Auken in Esbjerg, Denmark, on 31 October 2001. The theme for the conference was “Man and Wadden Sea” beautifully portrayed in a paint- ing by a school class of a primary school in Esbjerg, which became the official poster of the event.  Accordingly,  people’s  relationship  with  the  Wadden  Sea  was  at the  heart  of  the conference.

This publication should be cited as:
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (2002) Esbjerg Declaration. Ministerial Declaration of the Ninth Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea. Policy Assessment Report. Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.