BEST CITY PRACTICES

Five city couples have been chosen into the Best City Practices project according to their applications. All the city couples include a city with a good environmental practice ('guiding city') and a city interested in learning and implementing this good practice ('partner city/learning city').

At the moment the city pairs are doing study visits. The study visits will be reported in the second BCP workshop, which will be organised 7-10 June near Kaunas, Lithuania.

The chosen city couples are:

• Sundsvall (Sweden) with its Agenda 21 process and Sopot (Poland)
• Bützow (Germany) with its Agenda 21 process and Sillamäe (Estonia)
• Turku (Finland) with its Air Quality Monitoring and Panevëzys (Lithuania)
• Gotland (Sweden) with its Environmental Bus and ECAT Lithuania
• Elblag (Poland) with its Environmental Education program and Šiauliai (Lithuania)

In the BCP project, task of the city pairs is to do a feasibility study e.g. to find out if it is possible to implement the good practice of the guiding city in the learning city. During summer, city pairs will continue the feasibility studies and their results will be reported in the third workshop, autumn 2001. After the third workshop, the whole project will be reported by UBC EnvCom Secretariat.