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Events Climate Change Mitigation Sustainable Mobility Membership

22 October 2021

ICLEI Europe-Google collaboration leverages power of data-driven approaches for local climate action

ICLEI Europe and Google have been working together to better understand how the Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) tool – created by Google in collaboration with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) – can support cities in bolstering local climate action and i...

Climate Change Mitigation Governance Innovation Advocacy Membership

15 October 2021

Meet the finalists for this year's Transformative Action Award

Initiatives from ICLEI Member Nijmegen (the Netherlands), as well as from the City of A Coruña (Spain) and from La Titaranya SCCL were announced today as the finalists for the prestigious 2021 Transformative Action Award. The award recognises “Tr...

Events Climate Change Mitigation Governance Innovation Advocacy Membership

30 September 2021

Carbon-neutral, sustainable, inclusive: unlocking cities' full potentials through Local Green Deals

Last year, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal, with the ambitious target of making Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. In autumn 2020, local leaders met with the European Commission at Mannheim2020 to gain formal agreement from the European level t...

Events Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Circular Economy Advocacy Membership

28 September 2021

ICLEI Members commit to a clean and healthy future

Since its launch one year ago, 26 ICLEI Members have signed the Green City Accord, committing to ambitious improvements in five key environmental areas. On 22 September, the Green City Accord celebrated a significant milestone at a hybrid ceremony: 73 cities have signed the political commitment &nd...

Climate Change Mitigation Governance Innovation Advocacy Membership

10 August 2021

Transformative Action Award showcases Europe’s most inspiring examples of urban sustainable transformation

The application deadline for the 2021 Transformative Action Award recently closed, with this year’s award receiving 27 applications from cities, regions and civil society organisations across Europe. Applications to this year’s award span 11 countries and cover a wide range of sustainab...

Circular Economy Advocacy Membership

5 August 2021

ICLEI Europe's newest Member demonstrates commitment to fostering a circular economy

Earlier this year, ICLEI was pleased to welcome Murcia (Spain) as its newest Member. Murcia has a long history of rolling-out sustainability measures; this is perhaps best exemplified in its leading work on fostering circular economies. As a signatory to the Circular City Declaration, Murcia has de...

Circular Economy Membership

2 August 2021

Izmit project tackles waste and supports local children

Waste and promoting circularity is a critical challenge facing cities across the world. ICLEI Member Izmit (Turkey) has launched a new project to work toward meeting that challenge head-on, while also supporting families and local children. Izmit Municipality and Izmit City Council have worked toge...

Climate Change Mitigation Sustainable Energy Systems Governance Innovation Advocacy Membership

29 July 2021

Local governments lead the way towards a people-centred energy system

Thanks to trailblazing work by local governments, an exciting new future for the European energy system is emerging, which envisions a central role for each and every European community. For many years now, communities and local governments have been advocating for the critical role that people mus...

Sustainable Mobility Advocacy Membership

19 July 2021

Antwerp: the walking city

Walking the streets of ICLEI Member Antwerp (Belgium) has recently become quite a pleasure for many of its citizens, thanks to its ‘Living Streets’ initiative. In Belgium’s second largest city and Europe’s second largest port, where major flows of freight transport, commuters...

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