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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!
Type: eBulletin
Topic: Climate change, Energy
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.
Type: Video
Topic: Water
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.
Type: Video
Topic: Climate change, Green governance
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.
Type: Publication
Topic: Biodiversity, Climate change
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.
Type: Video
Topic: Climate change, Energy
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.
Type: Video
Topic: Biodiversity, Climate change
Developing low-carbon energy systems is a cornerstone of achieving carbon neutrality targets set in cities' climate and energy plans. The UBC TALKS webinar on 15 December 2020 showcased examples from on implementing sustainable energy solutions, presented local collaboration in energy planning in Area 21 project, as well as introduced a new funding instrument - European City facility aiming at…
Type: Video
Topic: Energy
Recording of the cities.multimodal webinar Co-creating urban space - testing the living street concept in the Baltic Sea Region more info: https://www.cities-multimodal.eu/
Type: Video
Topic: Mobility
At the UBC TALKS webinar on 24 November 2020 "Ensuring water safety from hazardous substances" we talked about ways to improve addressing hazardous substances in the wastewater treatment process, how to tackle industrial discharges into the municipal wastewater treatment line, and discussed best ways to raise awareness of citizens regarding their role in this cycle.
Type: Video
Topic: Water
It has been acknowledged that even though countries are increasingly adapting to climate change at the local level, there are considerable limits and barriers to adaptation, which can hinder a society from dealing with climate change effects. The aim of this report is to provide resources for municipal officers and experts to deal with the barriers to adaptation. The report provides a background…
Type: Publication
Topic: Climate change, Green governance
The webinar on 27 October 2020 continued exploring the topic of "Local work on the Sustainable Development Goals in UBC Cities", this time focusing on how cities can integrate SDGs in their strategies and what are the experiences of working with SDGs on local level.
Type: Video
Topic: Green governance
Dear UBC colleagues, Now in October we have important events coming up for us. The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is organizing the Annual Forum and a series on workshop virtually. These are important and relevant for us, as we are right now in the phase of planning and deciding on our actions and cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region up until 2030!
Type: eBulletin
Topic: Mobility
The cities play an important role in the successful implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our webinar on 22 September 2020 explored how to get started with the Voluntary Local Review (VLR) process, presented advice from the European Commission and shared experiences.
Type: Video
Topic: Green governance
This webinar was co-organized by the Finnish Consulting Group (FCG) and UBC Sustainable Cities Commission.
Type: Video
Topic:
This document – "Guidelines on how to implement MaaS in local contexts" – summarises the lessons learnt in the CIVITAS ECCENTRIC project during the years 2016–2020. The project was the first to include measures that focus on a new concept called Mobility as a Service, (MaaS). The first project publication – "MaaS Readiness Level Indicators for Local Authorities" – was published in Autumn 2017.…
Type: Publication
Topic: Mobility
This webinar was co-organized by EUCF's Danish Country Expert EC Network and UBC Sustainable Cities Commission.
Type: Video
Topic:
This webinar was co-organized by EUCF's Estonian Country Expert Tartu Energy Agency and UBC Sustainable Cities.
Type: Video
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The webinar organized on 9 June 2020 was dedicated to the intelligent transport solutions piloting, introducing the HUPMOBILE project and ITS piloting, as well as presenting the agile piloting in Helsinki.
Type: Video
Topic: Mobility, Urban planning
The webinar opens up the topic "Change your way(s) – towards multimodal urban mobility in BSR cities".
Type: Video
Topic: Mobility
This is a webinar in Latvian about the European City Facility (EUCF). The webinar was moderated by Ekodoma, the Latvian Country expert in EUCF.
Type: Video
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Dear UBC colleagues, We hope you are all fine despite this extraordinary situation. We are facing a new kind of challenge under the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us during this spring are working from our homes.
Type: eBulletin
Topic: Mobility, Water
The webinar "Climate change adaptation through smart stormwater management" was organized on 28 April 2020.
Type: Video
Topic: Climate change, Water
Cities and municipalities in the Baltic Sea Region often share similar issues, being part of a network like the UBC facilitates cooperation and finding common solutions. Elina Rantanen (Turku), Dagmara Nagorka-Kmiezkiec (Gdansk), Dovydas Kaminskas (Taurage), Irena Šakalienė (Klaipeda), Guntars Ruskuls (Riga), Steffen Nozon (Rostock) and Kaspars Varpins (Liepaja) are interviewed.
Type: Video
Topic: Green governance
Dagmara Nagorka-Kmiezkiec (Gdansk), Dovydas Kaminskas (Taurage), Irena Šakalienė (Klaipeda), Guntars Ruskuls (Riga) and Steffen Nozon (Rostock) share their cities’ most important sustainable development topics and issues at the XV UBC General Conference in Kaunas.
Type: Video
Topic: Climate change, Mobility