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It was 18 years ago, in 1992, at the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, when the idea of sustainable development was first time recognized at a high political level. The governments of the world committed to promote sustainable development in their national activities and international co-operation. As a result of the Rio Conference, the world began to understand…
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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The Baltic cities are changing with the world around them. Globalisation sets the scene for our cities with increased competition and global effects on local actions. Cities must cope with climate change, air pollution from increasing transportation, greater waste production and congested roads. New modes of production develop and people want a city suitable for working, housing and city life on…
Type: Environmental Bulletin
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UBC Sustainability Action Programme 2010-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Baltic Cities Adopted at the X UBC General Conference, Kristiansand, September 2009   During the upcoming Programme period the Baltic Sea Region as well as the UBC cities will be facing several large scale challenges. The challenges are already well known and some first steps to conquer them have already been taken. Climate…
Type: Publication
Topic: Green governance
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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