ICLEI Member Rome helps rugby fans travel sustainably
For the seventh year in a row, ICLEI Member Rome (Italy)’s public transport operator (Roma Servizi per Mobilità) is providing rugby fans travelling to the Italian capital for the Six Nations Championship with advice on how to reach the city’s Olympic Stadium sustainably.
The shor...
Cycling takes centre stage in Bordeaux’s municipal election campaigns
As France gears up for countrywide municipal and mayoral elections on 22 March, sustainable development and cycling find themselves at the centre of political campaigns. This is certainly the case in ICLEI Member Bordeaux (France).
With an annual population growth rate of nearly two per cent and tr...
ICLEI Members invited to co-elaborate urban climate change solutions at UNIC Congress
This April, diverse urban stakeholders will come together at the UNIC Green Infrastructure Future Summit (also known as the UNIC Congress) to co-elaborate concrete solutions, which can be scaled up throughout Europe and the world, to address the challenges posed by climate change.
ICLEI Europe is s...
Staff at the City of Ghent are traveling more sustainably
The City of Ghent is working hard to reach climate neutrality by 2050. It is well-known by now that mobility and travel account for a substantial proportion of harmful global emissions. As a result, Ghent has turned its efforts towards a sustainable travel policy.
As of February 2020, the staff of ...
ICLEI joins call for a European Capital of Social Progress
In 2019, ICLEI Member Umeå (Sweden) hosted the first Social Progress Cities Summit. As part of the Summit, participating cities came together to call for a European Capital of Social Progress Award, a call that ICLEI Europe is proud to officially support.
This award would be similar to those ...
Register now for #Mannheim2020 to take local transformation forward
ICLEI Europe and the City of Mannheim are thrilled to share that registration is now open for the upcoming Mannheim2020 conference, which marks the 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns.
By now, we know that the world faces major environmental, economic and social...
How one ICLEI Member has inspired another in their pursuit of sustainable mobility
The Guardian newspaper recently profiled city-to-city knowledge-sharing in action, by looking at how ICLEI Member Ghent (Belgium) inspired ICLEI Member Birmingham (United Kingdom).
In 2017, the City of Ghent released a mobility plan that works with city zones. In particular, the city is divided int...
Dear Members, Colleagues, Friends of ICLEI,
I hope you all had a nice and relaxing break between the years and a great start to 2020. Of course, this message would be a great opportunity to take a look at the new decade ahead of us. However, these days it is already difficult to find a solid basis ...
Oslo’s Governing Mayor launches new e-mobility initiative
Today, ICLEI Member Oslo’s Governing Mayor Raymond Johansen launched a new e-mobility pilot project in the city’s Røverkollen housing cooperative.
People across Europe are expected to make the shift from traditional cars to electric ones in the coming years. How can we make that ...