The report focuses on the Nordic coast since the Nordic countries have this environment in common and it is significant for the historical and economic development of coastal areas.
The aim is to highlight the Nordic coastal biodiversity and ecosystem services, as well as drivers affecting them and policy options for their conservation and sustainable use. The report brings together a wide variety of knowledge from science, humanities and other knowledge systems such as traditional knowledge.
The report is a result from Nordic co-operation among Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden and the Åland Islands. It is based on a process developed within the framework of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ervices IPBES, where it is used to guide regional and subregional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services.