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Empowering BSR Cities to shift towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: SUMPs for BSR Project kicks off in Turku
Published: 22 January 2024
The project consortium has convened in the City of Turku – the host city of the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission and the lead partner of the project. The kick-off meeting, held on 9-10 January, has brought together the experts and practitioners in urban mobility planning from the consortium, fostering discussions on shared challenges and collective solutions.
New projects on green mobility and climate neutrality
Published: 8 November 2023
Two new projects have begun in our Secretariat, where we look into achieving climate-neutrality: green mobility and climate budgeting process in the municipalities.
Sustainable revitalisation of Turku areas
Published: 21 September 2023
Mid-September is the perfect time to visit Turku, an ambitiously smart and sustainable city in Finland, working towards reaching carbon neutrality already in 2029. Turku is built around the river Aura – but what’s more important (at least where the international cooperation is concerned), it also stands on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Like in many other cities, for a long time Turku citizens have had a limited access to the sea due to different industries and port activities.
The annual CDP report for 2021 is finally here
Published: 1 April 2022
The report of 2021 looks into another successful year of UBC-CDP cooperation, as we follow the paths of 21 UBC member cities to climate goals 2030.
Invitation to join Green City Accord initiative
Published: 3 December 2021
While the EU’s policies over the years have led to significant progress in improving the environment, and in raising standards across the EU Member States, many environmental challenges still prevail. With more than 70% of the EU’s population currently living in urban areas, cities are critical to meeting the EU's environmental objectives and in helping the EU to become a more sustainable region.
22 UBC cities continued disclosure to CDP in 2021
Published: 29 September 2021
During the disclosure period, the following cities had disclosed their environmental data and good practices to the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System: Aarhus (Denmark), Tallinn* (Estonia), Espoo (Finland), Turku (Finland), Helsinki (Finland), Porvoo (Finland), Kemi (Finland), Lahti (Finland), Rostock (Germany), Riga (Latvia)
UBC cities are ramping up their efforts on the way towards climate neutrality
Published: 5 February 2021
In the meantime, despite the uncertainty brought by COVID-19, we cannot say enough how happy we are to see 23 UBC cities disclosing and staying committed to their climate change mitigation efforts. In 2020 we saw 3 newcomers (Bergen, Porvoo, Tallinn) whom we would like to congratulate joining the disclosure and climate action for the better future.
The UBC cities disclosing their data in 2020 were,
UBC cities continue as climate smart forerunners
Published: 3 May 2019
New report on UBC cities’ environmental data disclosure to CDP highlights increased interest in resilience and growing ambition in climate mitigation and adaptation among the cities.
UBC cities continue as transparent climate leaders in the Baltic Sea Region
Published: 12 October 2018
Back in 2016, UBC and CDP agreed upon collaboration between the two organizations with the first cooperation activities taking place in spring 2017. As a result, UBC doubled the number of cities reporting to CDP from 6 to 20. This year, the number of the cities disclosing to CDP grew to 28 in despite of the busiest holiday season.
New UBC Sustainability Bulletin 2015 published!
Published: 10 November 2015
Dear member cities, dear partners,
the new print version of the yearly Baltic Cities Sustainability Bulletin has been published at the UBC General Conference in Gdynia!
The print copies will be send out soon to all our member cities, if you want to receive the bulletin in paper format, please contact us.
Here you can read the online version.
Enjoy!
XIII UBC General Conference "Building smart cities in the Baltic Sea Region"
Published: 16 September 2015
The next UBC General Conference with the topic of "Building smart cities in the Baltic Sea Region" is taking place from Oct 27th-30th in Gdynia, Poland!
You can find the detailed programme and all practical information on the conference website!