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Greifswald is a bicycle city and with a bicycle traffic share of approx. 40% leading in Germany. In September 2019 the city started the first free cargo bike system in Greifswald.

SUMPs-Up has generated an incredible amount of knowledge and resources, it contributed greatly to the mainstreaming and further development of the SUMP concept as well as to active creation of a lively and vivid SUMP community among local authorities.

The project launched a series of exciting topic webinars and will continue with it until the autumn. Coming up next is a session on the electrification of municipal and private electric fleets, featuring the cities of Stockholm and Turku on 27 May 2020!

cities.multimodal‘s 5th project meeting was held virtually during 22nd and 23d of April. Despite not meeting in person the cities.multimodal consortium took part in different sessions using a variety of tools and methods.

Reuse and recovery of phosphorus from wastewater explored in the BSR WATER platform. One of the main outputs of the BSR WATER is the “Pallet of solutions for nutrient recycling in the Baltic Sea region”, foreseen as an integral part of the HELCOM Regional Nutrient Recycling Strategy.

Cooperation between Union of the Baltic Cities and CDP for the last four years has been able to engage more than 25 of our member cities to consistently disclose their environmental data, demonstrate actions in climate change adaptation and mitigation in our region.

Pursuing for sustainable energy investments? — The European City Facility application opens 25th of May! The European City Facility is an initiative to support local investments in sustainable energy.

How to adapt the stormwater system in your city to the climate change? Some questions left unanswered: we share an interview with the experts from Copenhagen, Helsinki and Gdańsk on raising motivation for the change, effects of COVID and benefits of implementing green infrastructure in the cities.

We are proud to present UBC ASKS, an interview series consisting of interviews with people with various connections to the UBC and the Baltic Sea Region!

During the third UBC TALKS webinar, we discussed about the possible benefits, obstacles and motivation for CDP disclosure. The city representatives shared their concrete tips for starting the disclosure in 2020 for UBC cities that have not yet disclosed to CDP platform.

CDP has decided to move all disclosure workshops online this year. This is in response to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) global health crisis. CDP has assessed the situation carefully and decided this is the most responsible action to protect public health.

CASCADE – Community Safety Action for Supporting Climate Adaptation and Development project is a unique, innovative project seeking to improve urban resilience in cities and towns, as well as the overall macro-regional resilience. CASCADE brings together civil protection specialists and climate change adaptation experts to jointly fight the impacts of climate change.