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Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems Performance Measurement Membership

23 May 2023

Using Google’s EIE to accelerate climate action and sustainable urban mobility

Cities are working to identify sources of transport emissions to establish accurate emission reduction goals, and to define policies that effectively drive sustainable mobility transitions. Assessing climate impact from transportation at the local level is, however, complex. It requires multiple emi...

Advocacy Membership

20 April 2023

G7 Ministers announce historic commitment to work with cities on subnational climate action

On 15-16 April, the G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment in Sapporo (Japan) concluded with the announcement of the first-ever G7 Roundtable on Subnational Climate Actions in collaboration with Urban7 (U7) – the voice of local governments at the G7 process. In th...

Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Advocacy Membership

28 March 2023

The state of circular economy in European cities

A growing number of cities see that shifting from a linear to a circular economy is essential to address challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, economic instability and global value chain disruptions. The current take-make-waste system accounts for almost 50% of global CO2 emissions a...

Resilience Built Environment & Culture Advocacy Membership

27 February 2023

Culture: a Cornerstone for Sustainable Development

Culture and cultural heritage have unique abilities to imagine and push forward sustainability efforts, especially at the local scale. Not only can cultural assets be a source of creative collaboration and strengthened social cohesion, but they can also be included in planning to create livable, inc...

Advocacy Membership

7 February 2023

Condolences and support for Türkiye and Syria

Yesterday, southern Türkiye and northern Syria were hit with consecutive earthquakes, which have, at the time of writing, killed over 5000 people. ICLEI extends our deepest sympathies to those who are grieving and suffering in the wake of these natural disasters. Wolfgang Teubner, ICLEI Region...

Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Justice, Equity & Democracy Advocacy Membership

20 December 2022

Last but not least: ending the year with another COP critical to nature

While the United Nations’ climate change negotiations (COP27) came to an end last month, this December was all about another Conference of the Parties: namely, global biodiversity negotiations known as CBD COP15. This was the occasion for world leaders to come together and agree upon a Post-20...

Circular Economy Membership

16 December 2022

Closing the gap between circular economy project development and investment

Moving from a linear (take-make-dispose) economic model to a circular one where resources are reintroduced in a productive system is essential to reduce resource use, reduce waste, lower costs for the environment and society at large, and achieve climate neutrality. However, circular economy project...

Events Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility Procurement Circular Economy Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Advocacy Membership

29 November 2022

ESCT is coming home: Aalborg to host 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns

ICLEI Member Aalborg (Denmark) will host the 10th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns (ESCT), which will take place in the first week of October 2024. “We are proud to once more invite cities from across Europe to Aalborg to become part of a transformational mov...

Sustainable Food Systems Justice, Equity & Democracy Advocacy Membership

7 November 2022

Presenting the European Commission with concrete Farm to Fork strategy inspiration

At the European Week of Regions and Cities last month, ICLEI Europe and the Committee of the Regions formally handed the European Commission a manifesto and petition calling for the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy to ambitiously advance sustainable food transformation. Taken together, these are &l...

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