In our increasingly urban world, cities and their surrounding regions have a growing influence on global patterns of production, consumption, innovation and technological development. At the same time, they are experiencing rapid change, brought about by urbanization, climate change, shifting demogr...
Green Week Partner Event: Building resilience to climate change: Developing regional-urban approaches
Adapting to climate change is a major challenge that cuts across sectors and levels of government: from transnational to regional and local. Cities and regions must work together if they are to develop effective strategies to address their local vulnerabilities and boost resilience.
This half-day s...
ICLEI Europe is an associate partner for the EU Green Week (21-25 May), organised by the European Commission (DG Environment). During the opening event in Utrecht (The Netherlands), ICLEI will organise two sessions as part of the plenary programme: a European Mayor’s roundtable on nature-based...
The fifth Open European Day at Bonn Resilient Cities will bring together key adaptation actors from different organisations: cities and city networks, regional and national governments, researchers, adaptation experts and European representatives.
This year’s Open European Day will build on l...
The final event for the cities of the Smart Mature Resilience project will take place on 24 April 2018, back to back with Open European Day at Bonn Resilient Cities. The event will bring together the four tiers of the Smart Mature Resilience project.
The programme will open with a networking lunch....
Boosting local progress in city resilience development - SMR Stakeholder Workshop
The Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) project will hold a Stakeholder Workshop in Brussels (Belgium) on 7 March 2018, 09.30-14.00, as part of the activities of the Tier 3 programme. The event will be held as part of ICLEI's Breakfast at Sustainability's series.
Breakfast at Sustainability's (B@S) is Eu...
Boosting local progress in city resilience development – SMR Stakeholder Workshop
The Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) project will hold a Stakeholder Workshop in Brussels (Belgium) on 7 March 2018, 09.30-14.00, as part of the activities of the Tier 3 programme. The event will be held as part of ICLEI's Breakfast at Sustainability's series.
Breakfast at Sustainability's (B@S) is Eu...
Strategic planning tools for urban resilience: city-to-city exchange on local resilience planning
World Urban Forum
On 9 February (11:00-14:00 UTC),ICLEI Europe will hold a training session for cities at the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur on building resilience in cities.
The resilience-building process at the local level requires skills and methodologies that are often not at hand in city administrations. In...
Solutions for strategic adaptation planning in European cities
RESIN Project Stakeholder Dialogue
This one day workshop on 1 February 2018, 10:00-17:30 (GMT), in Manchester (UK) will bring together city practitioners, critical infrastructure providers and experts on climate change adaptation and resilience in cities to exchange knowledge and plan for future collaboration on urban climate change ...
