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1 September 2010

Former Mayor of Barcelona elected as head of UN-HABITAT

Joan Clos, a former mayor of ICLEI member city Barcelona, has been appointed head of housing agency UN-HABITAT. After being nominated by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the appointment was approved by the United Nations General Assembly. Clos replaces Anna Tibaijuka as the Executive Di...

31 August 2010

Website launched to support water project funding call

The European Union has made €40 million available to support water partnership projects with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. To aid these water partnerships, a website has been launched by the University of Greenwich. It provides assistance in finding partners or help with drafting conce...

30 August 2010

Sustainable Biomass for European Energy to take place in Belgium

A new conference, Sustainable Biomass for European Energy, will be held by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union on 29-30 November. The event will take place in Committee of the Regions in ICLEI member the Brussels-Capital Region and is held in cooperation with VITO and ValBiom, Wallonia and ...

25 August 2010

Stockholm set for What about Urban Nature conference

What about Urban Nature – Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is a new conference to be held in ICLEI member the City of Stockholm on 14-15 October, 2010. The conference will take place in the House of the European Commission in Sweden and will focus on opportunities and methods to combine urban d...

24 August 2010

Video explores the effects and reasons behind the European Green Capital Award

As the quest to become the European Green Capital for 2012 and 2013 continues, a new video takes a look at the short history of the award and why it was established. ICLEI member cities Stockholm (Sweden) and Hamburg (Germany), were the first winners of the Award for 2010 and 2011 respectively, and ...

23 August 2010

SWITCH video shows the future of water management

A new video has been produced by ICLEI as part of the SWITCH - Managing Water for the City of the Future project. The video describes an imaginary city in the future that successfully manages its water in an integrated way. It has been produced to demonstrate the SWITCH vision for urban water manage...

20 August 2010

Freiburg launches Green City Cluster website

ICLEI member city Freiburg (Germany) has launched a new Green City Cluster initiative. The initiative consists of a website that contains information on a huge number of locally-based companies, including firms that specialise in energy, solar technology, environmental technology, building and const...

19 August 2010

New green schemes in Bristol

A new grant scheme has been announced by ICLEI member Bristol City Council (United Kingdom), to help residents who want to run green projects. The Bristol Green Capital Community Challenge Fund will offer grants ranging from £1,000 to over £10,000 to charities, groups of volunteers and not-for-pro...

18 August 2010

Zero emissions district to be built in Heidelberg

ICLEI member city Heidelberg (Germany) has launched an ambitious plan to build a large, new, zero-emissions city district on the site of a former goods station. The new district will be known as Bahnstadt, be centrally located and cover a total of 116 hectares - more than Heidelberg’s old town.Bui...

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