25-26 October 2006 2nd meeting in the Nordic and Baltic Aalborg Commitments network in Oslo, Norway

Hosted by the City of Oslo, the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions and the Swedish Council for Sustainable Development, more than 40 politicians and experts from 21 local Aalborg Commitments authorities and 7 national associations took part in the two day event, day 2 being an open workshop in the Nordic Council of Ministers conference on Sustainable Development in Oslo, Norway, see www.framtid-kom.no .

Please find the programme, the presentations and conclusions from the meeting here. Also a reminder of the meeting in Seville, Spain during the Fifth European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, 21-24 March 2007, see http://www.sevilla2007.org where the network is planning to participate.

Network meeting program (pdf) 
Network meeting conclusions October 25 (pdf) 
Picture of the network meeting participants (jpg) 
Workshop conclusions October 26 (pdf)


October 25 Presentations:
Welcome to Oslo, Kjersti Helgeland, City of Oslo (pdf)
Follow up on the network initiatives, Albert Edman, Swedish Council for Sustainable Development (pdf)

National round-tables:
Irja Alakivi, Association of Estonian Cities (pdf) and Pekka Salminen, City of Turku, Finland (pdf)

Other Baltic Sea Region initiatives on the Aalborg commitments:
Stella Aaltonen and Annika Claesson, Union of Baltic Cities (pdf)
Development of indicators to follow up the Aalborg Commitments, Steffen Thomsen, Aalborg, Denmark and Anna Karlsson, Växjö, Sweden (pdf)
Follow-up mechanisms/Peer review, Ingrid Molander, Botkyrka, Sweden and Trevor Graham, Malmö, Sweden (no pdf)

October 26 Presentations:
The Aalborg commitments, what are they?
Steffen Thomsen, City of Aalborg, Denmark (pdf)

Local work based on the Commitments
Inger Nilsson, City of Helsingborg, Sweden (pdf)

Teddy Kjendlie, Söndre Norstrand, City of Oslo, Norway (pdf)

Andis Zilans, City of Riga, Latvia (pdf)

A Nordic/Baltic sea region perspective, Loa Bogason, Nordic Council of Ministers (pdf)