Wadden Sea Forum

The Wadden Sea Forum (WSF), established in 2002, is an independent platform of stakeholders from Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands aiming to contribute to an advanced and sustainable development of the trilateral Wadden Sea Region. In particular, this means integrating specific cross-sectoral and transboundary strategies, actions and techniques which are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially acceptable. The WSF consists of representatives of the various sectors (agriculture, energy, fisheries, industry and harbour, nature protection, tourism) as well as local and regional governments. National governments are represented as observers.
The WSF also deals with climate change and climate adaptation in the Wadden Sea Region, in particular as one of the cross-cutting component of its ICZM (Integrated Coastal Zone Management) strategy. Due to cooperation agreements, the climate office of the HZG (Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht) has adapted their existing climate atlases to the requirements of the WSF sectors. For the Wadden Sea Region, several climate scenarios are placed the Wadden Sea Region Climate Atlas and different parameters can be selected and visualised thought this on-line available platform.