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Sustainable Cities Bulletin 1/2024
4 April 2024
Dear UBC colleagues, Warm spring greetings from the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission! The world is preparing to bloom with green spaces and new ideas, and it’s a good time to share with you our latest materials, impacts and openings!
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eBulletin
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Climate change
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Energy
Webinar: UBC TALKS about mapping and monitoring PFAS in cities
31 March 2024
UBC TALKS webinar about mapping and monitoring PFAS in cities on 26 March 2024 tackled a complex issue of PFAS: hazardous and extremely persistent substances, which are an emerging concern for cities.
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Video
Topic:
Water
Webinar: UBC TALKS about funding for innovative and climate-smart cities
28 February 2024
The UBC TALKS webinar on 27 February 2024 was a special edition organised together with the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme and focused on the open call for funding actions leading to innovative and climate-smart cities.
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Video
Topic:
Climate change
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Green governance
UBC SCC Annual report 2023
7 February 2024
UBC SCC Secretariat published the Annual report 2023 describing the activities of the Commission throughout the past year. The report includes the highlights from the implementation of the UBC Sustainability Action Programme 2030, updates from the running projects, and glimpses from the key regional events.
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Publication
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Biodiversity
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Climate change
UBC ASKS How can cities address climate change
30 January 2024
The interviews with the UBC SCC Advisory Board members from from Riga, Malmö, Gdańsk, and Greifswald were taken at the UBC Planning and Sustainable Cities Commissions' meeting in Turku, Finland, on 14 September 2023.
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Video
Topic:
Climate change
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Energy
UBC ASKS How is your city working on revitalisation
30 January 2024
The interviews with the UBC SCC Advisory Board members from from Gdańsk, Riga, Malmö and Greifswald were taken at the UBC Planning and Sustainable Cities Commissions' meeting in Turku, Finland, on 14 September 2023.
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Video
Topic:
Biodiversity
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Climate change
URBANworks
31 December 2007
Integrated Solutions for Sustainability Management in the Baltic Cities. A toolkit supporting local authorities to develop an organisational unit to ensure sustainable city development.
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Publication
Topic:
Green governance
URBANworks-toolkit
1 December 2007
Urban sustainable development requires resources, skills, understanding, good communication and commitment, and most of all and organizational structure to manage the efforts. The URBANworks-toolkit that was developed in Integrated Solutions for Sustainability Management in Baltic Cities, SUSTAINMENT, during 2006-2007, supports the development and the establishment of a sustainability management…
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Toolkit
Topic:
Green governance
Moving Sustainably - Guide to Sustainable Urban Transport Plans
1 December 2007
As people travel to buy goods and use services, they generate traffic. It is the ordinary day-to-day activities of urban residents - going to the shops, visiting the dentist or attending school - that generate traffic. Many cities face a multitude of challenges related to these activities, congestion, noise, air quality issues, health, safety, quality of life and the problem with a multitude of…
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Toolkit
Topic:
Mobility
Update your methods and tools
1 August 2007
Water binds together the populations of the cities around the Baltic Sea. This has been the case throughout history and now the cooperation is being further developed. Closer ties are emerging through contacts between countries, through the many different joint projects and the positive spirit of cooperation that are in the process of being consolidated.
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Environmental Bulletin
Topic:
Active UBC Cities
1 February 2007
Cities and urban areas play a central role in the wellbeing of European citizens, since eighty percent live in urban areas. Cities are a major source of prosperity. They are propellers of growth that radiate vitality far into the surrounding rural areas. The competitiveness of cities is a prerequisite for the European Union's success in global competition.
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Environmental Bulletin
Topic:
Mobility
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Urban planning
Sustainable consumption and production
19 September 2003
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Environmental Bulletin
Topic:
TBestC – Launch seminar 23-24 May 2003, Kaunas Summarising report
13 June 2003
The TBestC (Transferring Best Solutions between Towns and Cities) – project aims at transferring Good Practices between five city pairs in the Baltic Sea Region, through study visits and close co-operation between the cities. The project will be carried out during 2003-2004. The project cities are not appointed in before hand so the project started with the Launch seminar in Kaunas where 60 city…
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Publication
Topic:
Green governance
Environmental management systems
1 April 2003
Viable Economies for Baltic Cities A crucial factor for sustainable development in cities is the economy. At the same time, economic prosperity in longer term is only possible by strongly taking into account and cherishing the environmental and social basis.
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Environmental Bulletin
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