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Climate Neutral Cities

23 April 2024

The Cities Mission Platform supports all EU cities committed to climate neutrality by 2050

The 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform, supporting the work of the 112 mission cities towards climate neutrality, is now extending part of its support to any European city aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest. But as cities embark on their journey towards cli...
Procurement

22 April 2024

Join the European Commission’s workshops on socially responsible public procurement

Socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) asks public buyers to look beyond the price of goods and services, and consider the larger picture around how they are produced, sourced and delivered. To support this objective, the European Commission is organising training workshops on SRPP aimed at ...
Biodiversity & NBS Procurement

17 April 2024

Sustainable public procurement advances New European Bauhaus principles

Within the Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) project, a Community of Practice (CoP) focused on the New European Bauhaus (NEB) is the first European initiative to explore meaningful links between the NEB and sustainable public procurement. This CoP, led by ICLEI Europe, kicked off recently with a we...
Biodiversity & NBS Green Digital Transformation Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems

16 April 2024

Empowering cities for a resilient future: EURESFO 2024 is coming to Valencia

From 26 - 28 June, the European Urban Resilience Forum (EURESFO) will bring city representatives and resilience professionals together in Valencia (Spain), an ICLEI Member and the European Green Capital 2024! The 2024 edition of EURESFO is built around three key thematic streams and a fourth specia...
Communications

15 April 2024

ICLEI and eight European city and region networks from Local Alliance to urge EU to stay the course on Green Deal implementation

ICLEI and seven other leading networks of European cities and regions - ACR+, CEMR, Climate Alliance, Energy Cities, Eurocities, FEDARENE, and POLIS - have come together to form the Local Alliance ahead of the EU elections.  In a joint letter, the Alliance calls on EU leaders to find new ways ...
Sustainable Energy Systems

9 April 2024

Energy practitioners can access a guidebook for local energy poverty solutions

Leveraging the extensive experience in supporting local and regional governments in their sustainable energy and climate action planning processes, ICLEI Europe has played a pivotal role in drafting a new resource from Sun4All that promotes the use of renewable energy and addresses energy poverty, e...
Sustainable Energy Systems

8 April 2024

Access a practical guide to understand the potential of hydrogen for local energy transitions

Is it feasible and sustainable to use hydrogen gensets to improve the environmental footprint of cities? If so, in what capacity and which conditions need to be met to make hydrogen a viable alternative for cities? ICLEI, together with partners and city practitioners involved in the EVERYWH2ERE proj...
Sustainable Energy Systems

5 April 2024

A comic strip calls for climate action

As we work to create a sustainable future, sometimes we need inspiration to see what it could look like first. The English version of "Emma's Destiny" has just been released, a comic strip aimed at raising awareness about climate issues and proposing solutions for a sustainable future. Produced duri...
Biodiversity & NBS

4 April 2024

ICLEI calls for strengthened proposed Soil Monitoring & Resilience Directive

When we talk about biodiversity and climate, we often think about the ecosystems we can see, yet soil is home to more than 25% of all biodiversity. What’s more, soil has the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change by storing water and carbon, decreasing the risk of flooding and dro...