UBC Commission on Environment and UBC Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat

UBC Commission on Environment

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The Baltic Cities Environmental Bulletin 1/2012, is dedicated to steps Towards new city co-operation

Baltic Cities Environmental bulletin 1/2012

In the editorial, Björn Grönholm, head of UBC Commission on Environment Secretariat, highlights the key elements for building more sustainable, modern and attractive cities in the Baltic Sea Region.

The feature story stresses the sharing of information and co-operation at all levels. The city articles from Umeå, Aalborg, Kaunas, Karlstad, Tartu, Panevezys, St Petersburg, Keila and Rakvere provide us with more insight on how the cities have co-operated with different stakeholders on variety of topics. Furthermore, the Bulletin includes actions and methods from several UBC Commission on Environment projects. The special pages for the Commission on Energy focus on the triple-helix approach.

We hope you will find the content of this current Environmental Bulletin interesting and useful!

The CHAMP project (2009-2012) has now ended and we thank all the pilot cities and project partners that took part in developing new capacities to local climate change response around Europe. All project material will be available in the future through the www.localmanagement.eu portal.

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You can also read more about the project results in the last CHAMP newsletter and CHAMP Layman's report. Both include insights to main results of the project, reflections of the CHAMP final conference and thoughts about the future and how the good work will be kept up after project lifetime.

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