PA Secure at Macro-regional & Sea Basin Strategies Days 2025

On 24–25 September 2025, PA Secure took part in the Macro-regional & Sea Basin Strategies Days 2025 in Brussels – the joint platform bringing together all EU macro-regional and sea basin strategies to discuss future priorities for resilience, security and sustainable development. As part of the official programme, PA Secure also contributed to…

October 1, 2025

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Video: PA Secure at UBC talks about climate and disaster risk preparedness

PA Secure coordinator at the CBSS Secretariat, adviser Andriy Martynenko, contributed to the webinar UBC TALKS about climate and disaster risk preparedness with an overview of how PA Secure helps advancing local preparedness and climate resilience across the Baltic Sea Region. He underlined three points: • keep climate adaptation moving via a local preparedness/all-hazards lens…

June 12, 2025

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PA Secure and HA Climate colleagues interview on CASCADE project for #DRRDay

Valdur Lahtvee and Katie Goldie-Ryder, both working at the CBSS Secretariat in Stockholm, reflect on the synergies between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and on their tasks in the CASCADE project: VL: CBSS is the sole coordinator of the Horizontal Action Climate of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) and at the same time…

October 13, 2020

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Workshop addresses security risks related to climate change

On 12 October 2020, the CBSS Secretariat (PA Secure and HA Climate) and the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) Sustainable City Commission co-organised an online workshop within the EUSBSR 11th Annual Forum: Reducing security risks related to the climate change and mainstreaming climate agenda in EUSBSR after 2020. There are several current climate change-related security…

October 12, 2020

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CASCADE Prepares Curriculum for Trainers – for urban resilience

On 4 – 5 February, the CASCADE project partners gathered for a workshop in Copenhagen. The purpose was to review the components of a curricula for training in the climate change risk assessment methodology for the local level developed by the project. The training is tailored specifically for the local level context in the Baltic…

February 6, 2020

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CASCADE discussed Climate Change Risks with municipalities

“The global temperature has increased, and we are witnessing extreme weather leading to unprecedented challenges … now we need to be preparing for other risks that we have not previously prepared for – every country needs to be prepared for a wide range of risks” stressed Elena Višnar Malinovská from the European Commission’s Directorate-General…

October 18, 2019

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Two new reports on how DRR works with CCA in the Baltic Sea Region – challenges, good practices, possibilities

On the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, 13 October 2019, two reports are launched showing the state of play of the work with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation on the local level, in the countries in the Baltic Sea Region. The aim of these two reports is to…

October 11, 2019

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PA Secure presents EUSBSR cooperation and CASCADE at ECCA

28 – 31 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. “Not acting is not an option – Climate Change is a current problem and the last four years have been the hottest ever” stressed João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Portugal's Minister of the Environment and Energy Transition, in his opening remarks for the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference…

June 1, 2019

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CASCADE kick-off – new project will improve BSR urban resilience

Because of climate change, the risk of unpredictable weather events such as droughts, floods, forest fires and extreme temperatures increased. To make the Baltic Sea Region more resilient, CASCADE project (which received funding from the EU Civil Protection Mechanism) brings together civil protection specialists and climate change adaptation experts to identify and measure such risks…

February 8, 2019

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PA Secure at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction 2018

The 2018 European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) was held 21-23 November 2018 in Rome, Italy. The EFDRR, as Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, is recognised by the UN General Assembly as the main forum at the regional level for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and the review of progress in the implementation…

November 23, 2018