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During the second week of October, urban planners and experts active in Baltic Urban Lab project gathered in the Latvian capital Riga’s Mukusala area – one of the four Baltic Urban Lab pilot sites.

We were represented during the XIV UBC General Conference that took place this time in the Greenest City in Europe – Växjö, Sweden, between 24 and 27 October 2017.

CDP, the global climate change disclosure non-profit, and the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC), have agreed on a two-year Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) to involve more cities in the development and reporting of target-oriented climate actions. The findings are now published in a in a final report Climate Leadership from Baltic Sea Region Cities!

As part of the CIVITAS SUMPS-Up project activities, the CIVITAS Tool Inventory was launched during CIVITAS Forum 2017 in Torres Vedras, Portugal last month.

Sonderborg and SmartEnCity Network invite ambitious mayors, city council members, urban planners, climate project managers, advisors, green solution providers, scientists, students, NGOs and all other people interested in creating smart and liveable cities to join the 100% Climate Neutrality conference at Alsion, Sonderborg on 4-6 October 2017.

After a restful summer, we are all back in the office and back in action. During this autumn, water will be an important topic for our Commission through many project activities, meetings and conferences where we will be represented as well as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how we are promoting and implementing them on the local municipal level. Urban planning and brownfield related issues are also in our agenda for this autumn.

More Baltic Sea Region cities to act for Climate-smart leadership – UBC doubles its disclosure number!

Summer Holiday Wishes from the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission Secretariat.

As part of the Baltic Urban Lab project, around 50 urban planners, researchers, city officials and visualization experts came together in Norrköping on June 15 2017.

During the spring days of May, city officials from different Baltic Sea Region countries took planes and buses, cars and trains to reach the heart of Finland – City of Jyväskylä.

The IWAMA project organized two large events during June 2017. The workshop focusing on raising the capacity of WWT operators and a seminar held during the EUSBSR Forum are useful for disseminating the information about IWAMA, sharing its materials, and enabling the exchange of knowledge in the region.

Our warmest congratulations to our member city Växjö, Sweden for being awarded the European Green Leaf 2018 award jointly with the Belgian city of Leuven.