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22 September 2023

ICLEI Member Turku embraces cultural heritage to enhance sustainability

Culture and sustainability are woven together in ICLEI Member Turku (Finland), where residents write poems of the future they would like to see for their 800 year old city and where culture is a tool to achieve climate goals. The city’s cultural offer is low carbon, participatory, and often c...

Events Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy

19 September 2023

ICLEI supports sustainable and circular construction at World Congress of Architects

The construction sector is one of the most important and resource-intensive sectors, both from an economic and environmental standpoint. Construction accounts for roughly half of all material extraction, half of energy consumption, a third of water consumption and 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions...

Events Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Climate Change Mitigation Procurement

18 September 2023

Engage with ICLEI at the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cities and regions

Engage with ICLEI Europe, its Members and partners, all of whom will be part of the 21st edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC), the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cities and regions. This year’s EWRC will take place fully in-person in ICLEI Member Brussels...

Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy

11 September 2023

New handbook helps local and regional governments develop circular construction

A recently published handbook can aid local and regional governments as they look to implement circular economy practices into their construction sectors. The handbook, “Circular construction in Europe: handbook for local and regional governments”, shows in-depth circular activities and ...

Built Environment & Culture Performance Measurement

23 August 2023

ICLEI tests artificial intelligence to support local authorities decarbonise the building sector

Data is an essential component to understand our climate impact and artificial intelligence can assist in using data to develop climate measures accordingly. For this reason, ICLEI and its partners in the EU project MATRYCS are concluding the final testing phase of a decision support model, powered ...

Sustainable Energy Systems Built Environment & Culture

10 August 2023

Best practices are available for decarbonising Europe's heating and cooling sector

Through its European Climate Law and Green Deal, the EU has set itself the objective to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and set an intermediate target for 2030 to achieve at least a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas. One of the key challenges for achieving these objectives will be the decarbonisati...

Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Membership

31 July 2023

ICLEI Europe welcomes new members Bethlehem & Limerick

ICLEI is delighted to extend a warm welcome to its two newest members, Bethlehem (State of Palestine) and Limerick (Ireland). These vibrant cities join a community of forward-thinking municipalities dedicated to driving sustainable urban development and combating climate change. With their inclusion...

Built Environment & Culture Climate Neutral Cities Sustainable Mobility

28 July 2023

New cultural hub and bike station opens in Bologna city centre

For a decade, ICLEI Member Bologna (Italy) has been on a mission to connect and integrate its cultural heritage assets with growing ambitions around sustainability. In a new strategic vision launched by the local administration, Bologna highlights a central and crucial role of the cultural sector in...

Built Environment & Culture Membership

30 June 2023

The role of culture in urban resilience in Wrocław

“We see that we have to be ready for the unexpected.” This is the message that Bartłomiej Świerczewski, Director of the Department of Social Affairs in ICLEI Member Wrocław (Poland), wants to share. He refers with this not only to the pandemic and the outbreak of war in neighbouring U...

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