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11 April 2018

Submission deadline for EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award extended

The EU Cities For Fair and Ethical Trade award, which recognises and rewards European local authorities that promote fair, ethical and sustainable trade practices, has just extended its deadline for submissions to 20 April. The award is part of the EU’s efforts to raise awareness about how pu...

Procurement Membership

3 April 2018

Oslo uses climate budget and procurement strategy to tackle GHGs

ICLEI Member Oslo's (Norway) 2018 ‘climate budget’ has identified procurement as a key focus area in a wide-ranging environmental strategy aimed at significantly reducing the city’s GHG emissions by 2020. The budget, which foregrounds green mobility and active transport over...

Procurement

21 March 2018

Procurement strategies for sustainability in the spotlight at Procura+ seminar

The city of Oslo‘s (Norway) Vice Mayor for Finance Robert Steen has used the 15th Procura+ Seminar to highlight how innovative public procurement strategies can achieve ambitious targets at the city level. Vice Mayor Steen delivered an opening speech to more than 100 delegates at the Procura+ ...

Procurement

15 March 2018

Call for contributions to EcoProcura 2018 conference now open

The EcoProcura 2018 conference on sustainable, circular and innovation procurement has opened a call for contributions for four elements of its programme from 3-5 October in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Procurement practitioners, public authorities, policy makers, suppliers and legal experts are inv...

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15 February 2018

Registration open for ICLEI World Congress 2018

Registration has now opened for the ICLEI World Congress 2018, which will be held from 19-22 June in Montréal (Canada). At the ICLEI World Congress 2018, ICLEI and Ville de Montréal will bring together hundreds of mayors, governors, city staff, international organisations, business le...

Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems Procurement Circular Economy Governance Innovation Built Environment & Culture

12 February 2018

ICLEI Europe expands its topical reach and workforce

The European Secretariat of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability has announced that it will recruit around 15 new members of staff, expanding its total workforce and strengthening the organisation’s topical reach. The recruitment drive will see each of ICLEI Europe’s three...

Procurement Membership

2 February 2018

Rotterdam releases socially responsible procurement action plan

ICLEI Member Rotterdam has released a Socially Responsible Procurement Action Plan. The plan, approved in December 2017 by the Executive Board, describes the way in which the city puts into action the agreements from the Socially Responsible Procurement Manifesto, a scheme developed by PIANOo, on be...

22 January 2018

ICLEI Regional Director Wolfgang Teubner reflects on the challenges and successes of 2017

Dear Members, Partners, Colleagues and Friends, I hope you all had a great start into 2018, and wish you health, happiness, and success for the year to come. The turn of the year is a time when we tend to look back at the year that has passed and forward to the year ahead of us, often with hope an...

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