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In the Baltic Sea region, many cities have the goal of becoming carbon neutral. This requires a harmonized approach to strategic urban planning: climate, energy, urban development and mobility plans need to be in line, striving towards the same vision to reach goals. Traditional transport planning needs to be replaced by sustainable urban mobility planning aiming at accessibility and integrated development of all modes.

We are excited to announce that the 2024 CDP-ICLEI Track reporting platform is now open! UBC member cities are warmly invited to share their climate and environmental data as part of this year’s disclosure cycle. The platform is now open! Cities that disclose their data by September 18 will have it assessed and scored by CDP. Albeit no score will be issued for the data disclosed after this date, the questionnaire will still be open until the beginning of December.

Our Sustainable Cities Commission co-created the spring 2024 edition of the Baltic Cities Bulletin under the topic "Towards green and just transition"!

There's significant potential in incorporating the regular use of temporary experiments into mobility planning.

UBC TALKS webinar in March tackled a complex issue of PFAS: hazardous and extremely persistent substances, which are an emerging concern for cities. The webinar presented solutions developed in the EMPEREST project aiming at reducing the amount of PFAS and other organic micropollutants in the water management cycle.

A consulting company based in Germany - aconium GmbH is developing a project idea focusing on energy transition and the involvement of schools. They look for municipalities interested in joining the project.

The European Ocean Days in Brussels welcomed water-related projects, experts, businesses and policy makers. Within this event umbrella, a series of events were organized by different key actors in the field.

Climate-4-CAST: the project involving 20 municipalitiesThe Climate-4-CAST project (A Climate Action Decision Support Tool to accelerate cities’ progress towards climate neutrality) started in November 2023, funded by the Interreg BSR Programme.

The proposal involves conducting a pilot project wherein partner cities would each test different remediation techniques, resulting in multiple techniques being evaluated together.

On 27 February 2024, our Secretariat had a pleasure of arranging a special edition of the UBC TAKLS webinar series – together with the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme! This webinar focused on funding for innovative and climate-smart cities, presenting the open call for funding and the thematic priorities of the Programme 2021-2027, which has put cities into the core of its activities.

EMPEREST 1st international workshop in Tartu hosted over 80 participants discussing the measures at source and treatment steps for PFAS to ensure good aquatic environment and water quality.

The BALTIPLAST project has set to document and analyze information on the varied solutions adopted or planned by local governments. The objective is to create a collection of best practices that promote the prevention and reduction of plastic waste.