New marine environment prize

The Faroese members of the West Nordic Council have proposed a special prize to boost innovation in marine environmental sciences.

The proposal received unanimous support at the council’s annual meeting held last week in Nuuk, Greenland.

Other topics discussed at the meeting included fisheries cooperation, marine plastic pollution and how to make it easier for young people to travel between the west Nordic countries. A development plan for the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and the west coast of Norway was also debated.

The West Nordic Council is a cooperation forum of the parliaments and governments of Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. It was initially founded in 1985 as the West Nordic Parliamentarian Council of Cooperation but the name was changed in 1997. The council comprises six MPs from each nation appointed by their respective parliaments.

Translated by prosa.fo