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29 May 2024

Training for collaborative local governance and just sustainability transitions

Imagine your municipality in 2040: It’s green, affordable, and people are actively involved in decision making and caring for their neighbourhoods. Your municipality has gone through a metamorphosis. Looking back, the local government’s dedication to collaborative governance and advocacy...

Biodiversity & NBS Climate Neutral Cities Resilience

28 May 2024

ICLEI and Valencia pave the way towards resilient, adaptive, and climate-neutral cities

Cities and regions across the EU are coming face-to-face with the impacts of the climate crisis. From unprecedented wildfires to droughts and floods, the effects have heralded an era in which enhanced climate adaptation and resilience action are increasingly urgent. For more than 15 years, ICLEI Eur...

Biodiversity & NBS

27 May 2024

Bringing Nature-based Solutions into schools

As part of the EU’s Green Deal, the transition to a climate-neutral future has significant social, economic, and employment impacts, with education and training playing a crucial role. Integrating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into educational frameworks is essential for addressing climate and ...

Built Environment & Culture

24 May 2024

ICLEI Europe returns as partner for Urban Future 2024

ICLEI Europe will once again be partnering with the annual Urban Future conference, set to convene in ICLEI Member Rotterdam (The Netherlands), from 5-7 June 2024. As a gathering of visionary 'city changers', this event serves as a nexus for urban development experts, policymakers, entrepreneurs, an...

Biodiversity & NBS

22 May 2024

ICLEI joins the International Day for Biodiversity’s Call to ‘Be Part of the Plan’

"Biodiversity means human health, food security and resilience to climate change. By taking better care of nature, we can mitigate and adapt to climate change, often at a very low cost." Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (EC, 2024) Biodiversity is in decline worldwi...

Biodiversity & NBS Sustainable Food Systems

21 May 2024

Build better cities at the Nature of Cities Festival

The on-site segment of the 2024 edition of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC), which ICLEI Europe is sponsoring, is just around the corner. Following three weeks of virtual events in April, the in-person event in ICLEI Member Berlin (Germany) on 4 - 7 June offers a chance to connect with experts a...

Member Relations Governance Innovation

17 May 2024

ICLEI welcomes nine Ukrainian cities as new members

As with other regions in conflict, implementing sustainable urban development poses an added challenge in Ukraine. Thus, ICLEI aims to support the recovery and long-term rebuilding of the cities and towns in the region in a resilient and sustainable way, welcoming nine Ukrainian Members into our net...

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...

Governance Innovation

15 May 2024

Using municipal sustainability management to facilitate Local Green Deals

Cities are central actors for implementing and localising the European Green Deal. Recently, two new publications (in German) serve as resources for cities to enhance their municipal sustainability management strategies as they seek to do just that. The "Municipal Sustainability Management" report ...

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