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16 April 2019

ICLEI Members make up the finalists for the 2021 European Green Capital award

The finalist cities for the 2021 European Green Capital have been announced and all of them are ICLEI Members – Lahti (Finland), Lille (France), and Strasbourg (France). Another ICLEI Member, Lappeenranta (Finland), is a finalist for the 2020 European Green Leaf award. This title is similar to...

Sustainable Mobility Membership

12 April 2019

Vitoria-Gasteiz continues to drive initiatives for a greener city

ICLEI Member Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque country) made advances this week in greening their municipal transport fleet, with the purchase of five new hybrid buses. This move is part of the municipality’s aim to renew their fleet. In order to meet this goal, the municipal transport company, TUVISA,...

Advocacy Membership

10 April 2019

UN “Day of Cities” showcases cities’ critical role in achieving global goals

ICLEI Europe and several ICLEI Members participated in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)’s “Day of Cities” in Geneva (Switzerland) on 8 April 2019, which was held in advance of the 68th session of the Commission on 9-10 April. The 68th session provided a for...

Biodiversity & NBS Resilience Membership

9 April 2019

How urban partnerships can drive nature-based innovation

For the past three years, ICLEI has been coordinating Urban-Regional Innovation Partnerships, or URIPs, as part of the NATURVATION project that aims to create a step-change in how nature-based solutions are understood and used for sustainable urbanisation. These collaborative processes in six Europ...

Membership

2 April 2019

Ljubljana wins sustainability award at ITB Berlin

In March 2019, ICLEI Member Ljubljana (Slovenia) was recognised at the ITB Berlin awards. Ljubljana won “Best of Cities” in the Green Destinations award category. This achievement recognises Ljubljana for “showing global leadership in urban sustainability and avoiding disruptive ma...

Biodiversity & NBS Advocacy Membership

28 March 2019

Earth Hour 2019 to cast light on why nature matters

Starting as a symbolic lights out climate event in Sydney (Australia) in 2007, WWF’s Earth Hour has grown to become the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment, inspiring individuals, communities, governments, businesses and organisations to turn off their lights. This year th...

Advocacy Membership

28 March 2019

ICLEI Member Mannheim signs cooperation agreement with UN-Habitat

The city of Mannheim and UN-Habitat have recently entered into a cooperation agreement, making Mannheim the first German city of its kind to enter such a contractual agreement. The agreement was signed during the ‘Global Strategic Dialogue’, an event attended by Mark Hidson, Deputy Regi...

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27 March 2019

Mannheim to host 9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns

ICLEI Member Mannheim (Germany) will host the 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns, which will take place in Mannheim, 30 September – 2 October 2020. The conference will demonstrate the urgent need for local governments to assume responsibility for urban tran...