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29 June 2023

Apply for consultations on public buyers' needs

The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) Project, coordinated by ICLEI Europe alongside Eurocities and BME on behalf of the European Commission, aims to help public buyers across Europe to find innovative and sustainable solutions to their current procurement challenges. To build the foundation for fo...

Sustainable Mobility Built Environment & Culture Advocacy Membership

22 June 2023

ICLEI Europe commends longstanding network leader Ana Oregi

As a network, ICLEI Europe is governed by the ambitious local governments that make up its membership. Cities steer the organisation through the European Regional Executive Committee (REXCom), made up of Mayors and Deputy Mayors of ICLEI Members who are elected to the Committee. REXCom members take ...

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 ...

Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Built Environment & Culture Membership

9 June 2023

ICLEI Europe welcomes its three newest Member Cities

ICLEI Europe is pleased to share that three more ambitious European cities are now ICLEI Members. Welcome to: Athens and Thessaloniki (Greece), and to Łódź (Poland)! Athens Situated along the Mediterranean coast, Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece, has a population of over 3 m...

Built Environment & Culture Procurement

2 May 2023

New phase in sustainable public procurement project enhances collaboration between public buyers

The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWG) project, coordinated by Eurocities, ICLEI and BME on behalf of the European Commission, has kicked off its third phase. Following the successful pilots of four working groups between 2019 and 2022, in this new phase the project will establish ten working groups...

Sustainable Energy Systems Built Environment & Culture

25 April 2023

Citizen Hubs are catalysing the European Renovation Wave

The unprecedented shocks and stresses of the past three years have put the importance of our homes in the spotlight: energy efficient homes can protect vulnerable groups from energy price shocks and provide healthy and comfortable living environments. The huge importance of energy renovations ...

Climate Change Mitigation Sustainable Energy Systems Built Environment & Culture

12 April 2023

Test a new toolbox using building data to inform climate strategies

The H2020 project MATRYCS is seeking to unlock the potential of Big Data by developing a Toolbox of data-driven applications for building energy management and policy making. The MATRYCS Toolbox provides innovative analytic building services targeting four key areas and covering different perspectiv...

Resilience Built Environment & Culture Justice, Equity & Democracy

29 March 2023

ICLEI and the European Committee of the Regions present new Action Plan expanding cooperation on local sustainability and climate action

Today, ICLEI Europe President, Lord Mayor of Freiburg, Martin W.W. Horn, and the Chair of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) ENVE Commission, the Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski presented the ICLEI - CoR Action Plan for the years 2023/24. This document delineates concrete activities for...

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...

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