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30 October 2024

Empowering cities towards a climate-neutral future: The Aalborg Conditions and Europe's path to sustainability

The climate challenge will be won or lost at the local and regional level. As we enter this new legislative period, cities need the right framework conditions at the national and European levels to build a climate-neutral and competitive Europe. This aligns with President of the European Commission,...

2 October 2024

Europe's 30-year cities movement calls to step up the speed for a green transition

The 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns (ESCT) sets the stage for stronger cooperation between the EU, national and local level to fast track Europe’s transition to climate neutrality. As the new European Commission takes shape, mayors, and representatives from across Eur...

Procurement

13 September 2024

Finnish municipalities offered training in socially responsible procurement

ICLEI’s Finnish Members and social economy entities (SEE) are invited to take part in a training organised to help stakeholders gain expertise in socially responsible public procurement (SRPP). The training will take place in ICLEI Member Helsinki (Finland) on 23 September, 9:00-16:00 EEST. ...

Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Construction Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility

29 August 2024

ICLEI Europe calls for strengthened 2040 Climate Targets

The window of opportunity to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change is closing quickly. As temperatures in Europe are already reaching 2.1°C above pre-industrial levels, climate change impacts such as heat waves, droughts, floodings, and forest fires are already severely impacting co...

Procurement

7 August 2024

Public buyers can upgrade expertise with procurement training

Municipal public buyers can take part in training opportunities designed to improve the administrative capacity of the staff with key procurement functions in European central purchasing. The programme offers a combination of practical and academic approaches, allowing participants to benefit from t...

Circular Economy Procurement

6 August 2024

Sustainability in action at Paris 2024 Olympics

As our summers grow hotter, Europe’s cities are increasingly seeking new ways to provide their citizens opportunities to cool down. A river in the middle of a city can go a long way to that end, but as Olympic triathletes found out, cleaning up river waste is no easy feat. Cleaning up the Sein...

Governance Innovation Procurement

21 June 2024

Intelligent Cities Challenge offered training on Local Green Deals

On 18-19 June, the City of Porto (Portugal) hosted the Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) Implementation Lab conference at Palacio da Bolsa. The event brought together 298 participants, including around 60 ICC core cities as well as 8 ICC mentor cities, with a strong presence of ICLEI Members Aalbor...

Built Environment & Culture Construction Procurement

17 June 2024

Public procurement stimulates demand for sustainable construction skills

The built environment in Europe accounts for about 50% of all extracted material, for 35% of CO2 emissions, and for over 35% of the EU’s total waste generation. Implementing nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) can be used to reduce this climate impact and presents an opportunity for cost-effec...

Procurement Sustainable Mobility

16 May 2024

Oslo uses public procurement to reach zero emissions

ICLEI Member Oslo (Norway) is pushing forward to become an emission-free city, with the goal to use only zero emission technologies by 2030. Public procurement is one of the tools the city is using to achieve that goal, as explained by Geir Rossebø (Team Leader Climate & Environment) duri...

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