Winners of the UBC Best Environmental Practice in Baltic Cities Award

Best Environmental Practise in Baltic Cities Award 2005 goes to the City of Kaunas, Lithuania, has succeeded with the Modernization of the public transport network in the City

- Kaunas has modernized the public transport and modified public transport route layout

- the renewed bus and trolleybus fleet reduces gas emissions according to European standards

- microbuses and taxi vans operated by private companies are integrated in the same control system with municipal transport, which improves co-ordination of public transport

- 60 % of the citizens use the public transport

- The renewal of vehicle fleet improves convenience of travelling and increases the status of public transport systems

Best Environmental Practise in Baltic Cities Award 2003 goes to the City of Cēsis, Latvia

- the city has in an innovative way involved citizens and other stakeholders in the planning process and practical work for improving the bio-diversity and the green areas in the city

- the city has formed the basis for a long-term participatory process with the Environmental Development Board (EDB) taking part not only in the greenery area but also influencing in policy areas like territorial planning

Best Environmental Practise in Baltic Cities Award 2001 goes to the City of Gdansk, Poland

- special emphasis was put on innovative combination of environmental and social goals

- Award went to the city of Gdansk with their Ecological Sobieszewska Island project

- Sobieswska Island serves a delighting example of how the change for more ecological direction can boost both the economy and the wellbeing of local people. In the beginning of 1990s the Island, which lies on the Baltic Sea coast, in the Municipality of Gdansk, suffered from severe environmental problems, such as polluted soil and surface and also air pollution caused by coal heating

- Elaboration of new spatial plan for the Island (EWS), landscape preservation, construction and modernisation of infrastructure, green tourism and recreation as well as ecological education are examples of implemented activities

Best Environmental Practise in Baltic Cities Award 1999 goes to the City of Tartu, Estonia

- Award goes to the Tartu Agenda 21

- the city has carried out projects for sustainable environmental development within the framework of Tartu Agenda 21 since 1995. Since then, there has been several years of hard work, which had logical and realistic aims concerning sustainable development.