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22 March 2019

Lisbon wins European sustainable mobility award

The European Commission announced the winners of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards 2018 and the 7th Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) at a ceremony in Brussels (Belgium) last night. ICLEI Member Lisbon (Portugal) was revealed as the winner of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2018 for...

19 March 2019

ICLEI Members benefit from reduced fee at European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference

ICLEI Members can now register to attend the European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference at the reduced fee of £200 (GBP) + VAT, saving 33 percent. The conference, which will take place in London (United Kingdom), 10-11 April, brings together leading urban green infrastructure experts from...

6 March 2019

European sustainability award launched at Change the Change conference

Win 10,000 EUR and be recognised as a European leader of sustainable urban transformation with the 2019 Transformative Action Award The 2019 edition of the Transformative Action Award was launched today at ‘Change the Change’, an international conference on climate change, organised by ...

5 March 2019

Better Together Award to reward collaborative innovations solving local climate challenges

Cities, towns and regions are the pioneering places where local solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the effects of climate change need to develop. Meanwhile, start-ups, social enterprises and civil society organisations across the world are exploring and implementing tho...

26 February 2019

Cities and municipalities invited to apply for the German Sustainability Award

German cities and municipalities are now invited to apply for the 12th German Sustainability Award. The award, which was launched on 18 February, is the national award for excellence in sustainability, rewarding the sustainability efforts and achievements of German cities and municipalities across ...

18 January 2019

IUC programme invites EU cities to take part in international pairing

EU cities who wish to exchange with a city facing similar sustainable urban development challenges in another global region are encouraged to apply to take part in the International Urban Cooperation (IUC) city-to-city cooperation programme. To date, over 60 pairings have been established between l...

17 January 2019

Local and regional authorities asked to share their SDG implementation stories

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the OECD are inviting local and regional authorities to participate in a survey, sharing their work on how they have implemented, or are currently implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The information gathered will be used to influenc...

8 January 2019

Luxembourg to make all public transport free in world-first

Shortly before the New Year, the Government of Luxembourg announced their plans to abolish all fares on public transport, making them the first country in the world to introduce such a policy. Currently, commuters only pay €2 for up to two hours of travel, which covers almost any journey acros...

7 January 2019

Zagreb hosts co-design workshop on nature-based solutions and urban regeneration

ICLEI member Zagreb (Croatia) recently hosted, 3-4 December 2018, a co-design workshop, which sought to explore how the city’s easternmost district, Sesvete, could be regenerated through nature-based solutions. The hope for the district is to revive some buildings of the former meat-processin...