The Award

If it is the marketing opportunity, the grant or just the great honour that has been the incentive for our member cities to put a lot of effort on applying for The Best Environmental Practice in Baltic Cities Award 2003 is a secret. The EnvCom secretariat has received a good number of high quality applications. During the Award ceremony that will take place during the General Conference in Klaipeda the winner will be announced and will receive the Award diploma and grant. The outstanding practice that will be awarded should embrace businesses in some way and cover one of the five themes Air Quality, Biodiversity, Energy, Environmental health or Information and Education.

The Award Committee has had the delicate job of evaluating and choosing the winner among the applicants. The cities that are taking part in the award with their good practices are, Panevezys with "Risk of radon in Panevezys", Jurmala with "Environmental Friendly Business Fair", Aalborg with "New use of Harbour fronts", Cesis with "Environmental Development Board", Vilnius with "Let's Live in a Clean and Healthy city", Sopot with "On the stream walk - didactic path" and "Oxygen balance", Kaliningrad with "Environmental education for businesses", Kaunas with "The School for Community", Gdynia with "Environmental friendly city".

Don't miss the opportunity to get some good input and new ideas to implement in your own city. During the general conference all the practices will be displayed with pictures and text.

by Anna Granberg