The Embassy of the Baltic Sea had the pleasure of holding space for the Baltic Sea together with many other organisations.

The idea of an Embassy of the Baltic Sea was introduced in a special issue of the Nordic Environmental Law Journal (2024) focusing on the rights of nature. The special issue is the result of a symposium titled “National Interest, Representation, and the State: Implications for the Recognition of Rights of Nature” held at Uppsala University on 5 June 2023. The symposium was organized by members of the Formas-funded research project “Realizing Rights of Nature: Sustaining Development and Democracy” and brought together scholars in the fields of law, political science, international relations, history, and theology. Its purpose was to consider the implications of a novel approach to nature protection that has drawn increased interest in recent years: the recognition of nature as a rights-bearing legal entity. Pella Thiel participated in the symposium and contributed with an article titled "Moral imagination for the rights of Nature: An Embassy of the Baltic Sea". ABSTRACT: International

From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists and policy makers gathered here from 3 – 6 October 2024, with the aim to exchange, experience and learn about water representation. The emerging Embassy of the Baltic Sea was proudly represented by Robin Tidblom. Learning system for water diplomacy The Confluence of European Water Bodies is founded as an interdisciplinary research, support system and campaign for the representation of water in Europe. Born out of growing water challenges and demands for water democracy worldwide, the Confluence of European Water Bodies sprang from a collective pursuit of a deeper and cricital understanding of the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Europe. As a learning system for water diplomacy, ne