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Events Justice, Equity & Democracy Advocacy Membership

31 August 2023

Better together: partnerships between local governments and community-led initiatives

How can community-led initiatives and local governments work together to build more sustainable and just cities? How can partnerships between them be designed to lift both parties up, to amplify their impact and reach? Given that communities are well-positioned to know on-the-ground challenges and ...

Events Procurement

27 June 2023

ICLEI Europe and Lisbon to host 11th Procura+ Conference in March 2024

ICLEI Europe and ICLEI Member Lisbon (Portugal) are proud to announce that the 11th Procura+ Conference will be held in the Portuguese capital from 13-14 March 2024. The conference will showcase how cities and public authorities can use public procurement to implement small changes that make a big i...

Events Built Environment & Culture Performance Measurement Membership

19 June 2023

‘One-Stop-Shops’ that could drive deep renovation rates in Slovenia

About 60% of Slovenia’s houses have the potential to be renovated so that they use almost zero-energy; and with an additional solar power plant, these houses can become almost self-sufficient, according to Marko Umberger of the Municipality of Ljubljana (Slovenia). This was among the insights ...

Events Climate Change Mitigation Advocacy Membership

16 June 2023

ICLEI Europe calls for multilevel climate action at UN-Habitat Assembly in Nairobi

ICLEI Europe was represented by Matthew Bach, Coordinator, Social Equity & Justice at the United Nations Habitat Assembly, which took place this month in ICLEI Member Nairobi (Kenya). Throughout the Assembly, ICLEI’s messages were clear: multi-level action has never been more important; ur...

Events Resilience Advocacy Membership

15 June 2023

ICLEI Member Bonn recognised as a ‘Resilience Hub’

This week marked the inauguration of a brand-new Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) Resilience Hub – i.e. a city with a history of resilience-building, and a mandate to share their experiences with other communities. During the MCR2030 Resilience Hub and Local Governments Forum at ICL...

Events Circular Economy

13 June 2023

Waste is a resource across the entire production chain

Sustainable waste management begins even before the waste is created. The choices made before the design and consumption of a product that reduce waste are key to creating a sustainable, circular economy that sees waste as a resource. It is not enough to just recycle and reuse waste correctly. Thes...

Events Sustainable Mobility Advocacy Membership

31 May 2023

15-minute cities: how old solutions can become new innovations

Would you prefer to listen to this article? No problem! Check out our “Features” series, in which we read each month’s feature article aloud, and share those recordings in our podcast feed. Listen now >> * * * A long-held staple of urban planning, the concept of the “...

Events Biodiversity & NBS Advocacy

26 May 2023

Local governments shape the future of biodiversity

In December 2022, leaders from across the world came together in Montreal (Canada) for global biodiversity negotiations known as the “United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties”, or CBD COP15. This was the occasion to agree upon a Post-2020 Global Biodive...

Events Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Mobility

25 May 2023

ICLEI partners with city changers for Urban Futures conference

ICLEI Europe is once again a partner of the annual Urban Future conference, which brings together a wide diversity of ‘city changers’. This year, the conference is taking place in Stuttgart (Germany) from 21-23 June 2023, and will bring together urban development experts, politicians, en...

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