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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
Topic:
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
Topic:
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
,
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
,
Climate change
Sustainable Cities Bulletin December 2017
1 December 2017
Dear colleagues, The year 2017 has been a year full of activities. At the UBC General Conference in Växjö we appointed new co-chairs and Advisory Board for the next two years. During the year, we have also launched new projects and the Baltic Smart Water Hub.
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eBulletin
Topic:
Climate Leadership from the Baltic Sea Region Cities
25 October 2017
"Climate Leadership from the Baltic Sea Region Cities"-report was launched during the XIV UBC General Conference in Växjö, Sweden, on 25 October 2017. The report is the result of a cooperation between UBC and CDP.
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Publication
Topic:
Climate change
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Green governance
ECCENTRIC 1st brochure
8 September 2017
CIVITAS ECCENTRIC's first brochure presents the project in a nutshell, a description of the living lab areas and contact information.
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Publication
Topic:
Mobility
Resource Wisdom and Biosphere areas in UBC cities, day 1
21 June 2017
Resource Wisdom and #Biosphere areas in UBC cities, UBC Sustainable Cities Commission Meeting, Day 1.
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Video
Topic:
Resource efficiency
Resource Wisdom and Biosphere areas in UBC cities, day 2
21 June 2017
Dynamics of Biosphere area development. Cases from UBC cities on how biosphere region works as a promoter of competitiveness and sustainability, e.g. in urban planning and in development of local businesses and tourism.
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Video
Topic:
Urban planning
Lake Päijänne biosphere initiative, Resource Wisdom and Biosphere areas in UBC cities
21 June 2017
Introduction to the Case: ”Lake Päijänne biosphere initiative” by Ms. Päivi Halinen, Senior Adviser, ProPäijänne Association
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Video
Topic:
Biodiversity
Planning Systems and Legislation for Brownfield Development in the Central Baltic Countries
11 April 2017
Brownfield redevelopment is an important topic in Europe, where many countries and cities are experiencing rapid urbanisation. The aim of this brochure is to enable experiences of brownfield redevelopment to be exchanged between the Central Baltic countries (Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden) by providing knowledge about the conditions for brownfield redevelopment in each country. The brochure…
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Publication
Topic:
Urban planning
Innovative sustainable thinking in UBC Cities
1 October 2008
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.
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Environmental Bulletin
Topic:
Visions of Sustainable Future
1 February 2008
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,…
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Environmental Bulletin
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