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The newest issue of the Sustainable Cities Bulletin has been published: featuring articles about UBC-CDP cooperation and where to find more information about it, international cooperation projects that our Commission is involved with and a call to join the Clean Beach initiative. A separate story has been written about the recent webinars that UBC Sustainable Cities Commission has been hosting, one on sustainable urban mobility and the other on sustainable urban planning.

Cities of Tallinn, St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Turku have co-organised joint beach cleaning events in their cities for several years in late spring. The events are part of their Baltic Sea Challenge co-operation and the Clean Beach campaign.

The European Commission has opened a call for applications to host the 6th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, to be held in 2019.

On 11 April 2018, UBC Urban Planning webinar was arranged as a possibility for our cities to learn more about what we do as an organization as well as what kind of projects and activities we have to offer to the Baltic Sea Region. The webinar gathered 14-16 attendees from Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland, mostly from the urban planning field.

Creating the infrastructure and raising awareness among citizens for choosing sustainable mobility modes – this is the aim for eight cities in the “cities.multimodal” project.

Cities all over the world are facing common challenges of increasing storm water floods, and degradation of natural resources and infrastructure caused by climate change and densified urban areas. iWater project aims to tackle that by introducing and improving integrated storm water management.

Baltic Urban Lab project, led by the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission, has published a definition for urban brownfields. There are no commonly agreed European definitions on what a brownfield is. The definition published by the project emphasizes the importance of integrated and partnership based approach for the redevelopment of brownfield areas.

The IWAMA project aims at improving the wastewater management in the Baltic Sea Region taking into account principles of resource efficiency. In the project framework, the primary focus is given to development of capacity of the wastewater treatment operators and implementation of pilot investments increasing energy efficiency and advancing sludge handling methods.

Almost 50 mobility practitioners from 8 countries around the Baltic Sea took part in the SUMPs-Up workshop in Tampere on March 15th, that was organized by UBC Sustainable Cities Commission, together with the City of Tampere and MAL-network.

The Skanssi project was started to create a smart and sustainable residential area in Turku, in the South-Western Finland as part of Turku’s aim to become carbon neutral by 2040. The principles that guide the planning and construction of the whole Skanssi area are: smart, sustainable and innovative.

CDP will be holding several webinars to provide cities with useful information and tips on reporting throughout the year. For more information or suggestions on topics you would like CDP to cover in the future, please contact cities@cdp.net. 

Does your city want support in developing a package of measures for a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)? Do you want to learn more about the processes behind doing so? Then apply to join the next round of the SUMP Learning Programme (SLP) from CIVITAS SUMPs-Up! The deadline has been extended to 23 April.