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Member City Partners
We assist local authorities in the Baltic Sea Region in initiating, applying and managing projects on different sustainability topics. The themes and actions are tailor-made based on the needs of the project partners from local authorities to assist the ongoing processes towards sustainable development. More information can be found on projects description pages below.
Climate-4-CAST
A Climate Action decision Support Tool to accelerate cities' progress towards climate neutrality
Climate-4-CAST aims to assist local public authorities in their climate neutrality and integration of climate actions into urban governance processes. The project accelerates cities' climate actions and improves policy implementation for climate neutrality by equipping local public administrators with an open source decision support tool that helps visualize individual measures' emmissions impacts and cost-benefit analysis of the measures' performance against city goals.
CDP
UBC-CDP Cooperation
The cooperation between UBC and CDP started in the beginning of 2017 with a Memorandum of Understanding signed in the autumn of 2016. Since 2017, the Baltic Sea Region cities have become the forerunners in environmental reporting and in 2020 became the largest participating area in CDP reporting.
CASCADE
Community safety action for supporting climate adaptation and development
CASCADE aimed to improve the capacity to understand, assess, and treat current and future climate change related risks on the local level, focusing on the particular in Baltic Sea Region (BSR) conditions.
BSR WATER
Platform on Integrated Water Cooperation
Bringing together knowledge and innovation potential on the transnational basis
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Climate Adaptation Trainings
Urban Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region
The initiative Urban Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region was a one-year project providing opportunities for capacity building, training and applying the skills to existing situations in the adaptation to climate change in the cities of the region. The project focused on establishing connections between climate change and sustainable development of urban areas.
iWater
Integrated Storm Water Management
Improving urban planning by developing integrated and multifunctional storm water management in the Central Baltic cities.
GoF 2014
Gulf of Finland Exhibition
Creation of the main exhibition of the Gulf of Finland year (2014) with virtual materials in Finnish, Estonian, Russian and English.
NordLead
NordLead
Finding success factors and support needs in local climate work in the Nordic countries with the help of a survey among municipalities.
BaltCICA
Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region
Focusing on the most imminent problems that climate change is likely to cause in the Baltic Sea Region.