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Gdynia organises the autumn-winter edition of the campaign for kindergarten and primary school children, to encourage a shift in transportation habits.

Unveiling the background story of the Urban Biodiversity Parks Project and understanding what it sets out to achieve.

Umeå, a city with high ambitions for sustainability and climate action, has recently been awarded the prestigious EU Mission Label. Read about the initiatives launched under Umeå’s pilot project “North Star” coordinated by NetZeroCities and funded by the European Union!

The Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is the main event for the stakeholders of our area to meet, exchange, network, and plan further activities. This year’s 15th Forum took place in Visby on 29-31 October 2024 and attracted 650 participants at the venue – not to mention the online audience of the livestreams!

This year, the Swedish Government and the Nordic Council of Ministers are hosting the Annual Forum in Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden, welcoming 650 participants from over 20 countries. The overall themes for the forum are sustainability, resilience and security.   The programme offers

As a UBC member city, we encourage you to take full advantage of the CDP-ICLEI Track platform to report your environmental data. This disclosure enables cities to track their progress, benchmark the data against peers, and access the data to set and meet ambitious climate targets.

Risk management requires manifold activities across different sectors: to investigate and communicate the existing and upcoming risks, to locate a solution, and to impact the policy making.

Organised in early October 2024, the project meeting of Climate-4-CAST created a great exchange opportunity for different climate budgeting practices from cities in the Baltic Sea Region.

The International Photo Competition on Active Mobility brought attention to the importance of sustainable mobility modes across six project partner cities.

The heat pump solution developed and implemented in Turku Student Village PED area was awarded by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) in Brussels on 25 September 2024. Tyyssija’s heat pump solution won 1st place in the category “Heat Pump City of the Year”, which recognizes heat pump projects implemented at the local level with the support of the city. The solution was co-developed in the project RESPONSE by partners VTT, Oilon, Högfors GST, and Turku Energy.

This seminar was titled “Sustainable transformation for resilient coastal city”, focusing on three areas of the hosting city of Gdańsk: two parts of the harbour zone and the area next to the football arena built for UEFA Euro 2012. The aim of the seminar was to provide new functional visions for these areas, prepared by the teams of international experts from UBC member cities in line with the hosting city’s strategic objectives.

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.