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Urban Future Global Conference is an event for all the people who aim to make their city more sustainable. This year’s conference attracted 2500 city changers to Oslo to learn more about topics such as car-free city life, cutting carbon emissions and circular economy, among others.

Cities are the key drivers for a transition to more sustainable and resilient world Baltic Sea Region. Oslo, the Norwegian capital, was awarded the title of European Green Capital 2019 – a recognition of the city’s efforts and achievements in environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission has partnered up with the Urban Future Global Conference and was represented at the Green Business Village stand during the latest conference in Oslo, Norway from 22 – 24 May 2019. UBC Sustainable Cities Commission was represented by project coordinator Juha Pulmuranta and project planner Kristiina Paju.

Learn how tools and solutions developed in IWAMA project can help WWTPs achieve resource efficiency and realize potential cost savings by reducing energy consumption and improving sludge handling practices.

Introducing BSR WATER platform – launched to engage the water sector’s professionals into exchanging good practices and influence regional water policies.

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.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Östersjöfonden (the Baltic Sea Foundation), the delegation of the foundation has decided to award four persons who, through their extensive life work, have engaged in improving the Baltic Sea environment.

UBC Sustainable Cities Commission attended the XX international environmental forum “Baltic Sea Day” in St. Petersburg where more than 700 participants joined to exchange experiences and practices, propose solutions and discuss current and future cooperation.

We are delighted to announce that our collaboration with CDP has reached its third year! Last year, we increased the number of UBC cities reporting to CDP from 20 to 28 - this year, we hope to raise that number even more and to help cities to answer the questionnaire with more detail to help our member cities receive maximum benefits from the benchmarking and scoring systems of CDP. 

This webinar is a great opportunity for our UBC cities to both present their climate work as well as learn from what others are doing in their pursuit toward climate resilience. Climate work in two UBC cities - Tartu (Estonia) and Turku (Finland) - will be presented during the webinar.

New innovative project brings together civil protection specialists and climate change adaptation experts to fight the impacts of climate change. CASCADE targets the need to develop risk assessment methodologies tailor-made for the local level and putting them into practice for more resilient societies.

Within the cities.multimodal project, the 10 city partners plan and implement a variety of different measures and activities – locally.