- Serving the Cities in Agenda 21 -
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- Serving the Cities in Agenda 21 -
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The VII General Conference of the Union of the Baltic Cities, Klaipėda 17-18 October 2003, approved the new UBC Strategy and the Roadmap for Sustainable Baltic Cities – UBC Agenda 21 Action Programme 2004-2009. This action programme implements the UBC Strategy with regard to sustainable urban development. The implementation of the programme has made a strong start. Good services for cities are on offer – including possibilities to join new projects. The interests and needs of Baltic cities were the most important factor in the design of the new program. The implementation is a joint effort of all UBC bodies and members. Especially strong roles have currently been assumed by the commissions on environment, urban planning, social and health affairs and transport. The programme concentrates on five thematic focus areas and mobilises a total budget of 10 million euros. The focus themes are: 1. Good governance and
sustainable urban management All of these five themes are crucial for sustainable development in cities, and the cities also have powers and means to address them. The most important tool in the programme are projects that contribute to the thematic focus areas. At the moment, altogether ten projects are running within the programme and the mobilised budget already exceeds three million euros. The largest on-going projects are the New Hansa of Sustainable Ports and Cities, the EMAS Peer Review for Cities and the Baltic University Urban Forum (BUUF). One project with wide outreach is also the ABC (Alliance of Baltic Cities), aiming at exchange of good town planning practices and cases, and run by the Commission on Urban Planning. Other projects include for example good practice exchange and also partnerships beyond the Baltic Sea Region, with Lake Victorian as well as Adriatic and Ionian municipalities. New projects are currently under planning and interested cities are welcomed to contact the programme management agency (UBC EnvCom Secretariat). The UBC programme has a strong commitment towards open governance. In practice this means, that we welcome all partner organisations, other co-operation partners and stakeholders to shape the activities and implement the program together with us. All interested are warmly welcomed to contact the UBC Commission on Environment Secretariat, which functions as the programme management agency. UBC
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