News for topic Green-governance

Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission has partnered up with the Urban Future Global Conference and was represented at the Green Business Village stand during the latest conference in Oslo, Norway from 22 – 24 May 2019. UBC Sustainable Cities Commission was represented by project coordinator Juha Pulmuranta and project planner Kristiina Paju.

New report on UBC cities’ environmental data disclosure to CDP highlights increased interest in resilience and growing ambition in climate mitigation and adaptation among the cities.

Back in 2016, UBC and CDP agreed upon collaboration between the two organizations with the first cooperation activities taking place in spring 2017. As a result, UBC doubled the number of cities reporting to CDP from 6 to 20. This year, the number of the cities disclosing to CDP grew to 28 in despite of the busiest holiday season.

SmartEnCity Network will be launched through a workshop on June 1, 2016 in Tartu (Estonia). The goal of the network is to help European small and medium-sized cities to become Smart Zero Carbon City forerunners. Please find the agenda and registration information to the workshop and related conference "Smart City for Citizens" below: The SmartEnCity Network launch workshop When: 1 June 2016, at 16:30-19:00