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Climate change is increasingly at the heart of energy policy and technology development. It is therefore presenting an unprecedented challenge, but also an opportunity for Baltic Sea region in terms of its capacity and interest to innovations and low carbon technology deployment.
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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The 20th century was the period of unprecedented economic development in the world, great fall of colo- nialism and totalitarian systems. However, it took place at the expense of depletion of non-renewable sources of fossil fuels, metal ores and destruction of Earth’s natural wealth. It became commonly known at the end of the 20th century that the human being, in his uncontrollable expansion,…
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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This document provides guidance to carry out a Peer Review of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) implementation in municipalities across the European Union.
Type: Publication
Topic: Green governance
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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Dear UBC Friends, my city, the city of Klaipeda, is just finalising Municipal Environmental Auditing (MEA). It took us a lot of work to carry out the process, but I believe that the results are worth it. We now have solid information of the environmental performance of our city, and pro- posals for improvements given by external experts. These recommendations will hopefully be useful for us when…
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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European Dialogue on Local Agenda 21, 18-19 May 2000 in Turku, Finland, the Baltic Roundtable on Local Environmental Policy gathered together forty representatives of environmental ministries, European Commission, and local authorities and their networks for dialogue on advancing local environmental policy and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. As all the levels, i.e., local,…
Type: Publication
Topic: Green governance
The General Conference of the Union of the Baltic Cities made a very good decision:in Stockholm: it approved the UBC Local Agenda 21 Action Program. This decision means that work for sustainable development is among the highest priorities of our organisation.
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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