ICLEI Europe supports community energy as part of Europe's recovery
As part of its engagement in the ‘Community Power Coalition’, ICLEI is working with a diverse group of organisations to engage the European Commission on the issue of community energy. This alliance recently published a letter addressed to the Commission, containing ideas for a resilient...
Engage with ICLEI Europe at European Week of Regions and Cities 2020
Every year since 2003, the European Commission alongside the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) have hosted the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC), an event for cities and regions to showcase their work and the crucial role they play in European governance. The event hosts workshops, de...
Local governments launch “Edinburgh Declaration” for bold action against biodiversity loss
The “Edinburgh Declaration” is a new statement of intent – which is the result of a comprehensive consultative process supported by ICLEI Europe – that paves the way for strengthened local government representation at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) and in global b...
A new toolkit outlines how to become the next European Green Capital
A new toolkit from the European Commission guides cities through every step to become the next European Green Capital – from the decision to apply to collecting the necessary data and writing a successful application. Based on insights and first-hand experience from previous winners and finali...
Countries across Europe are struggling to meet their climate targets and to transition to clean energy systems. Community-scale renewable energy has great potential to help decarbonise local economies, while benefiting local communities. Unfortunately, this potential is too often blocked by high sup...
Transformative Action Award showcases Europe’s most inspiring examples of urban sustainable transformation
The application deadline for the 2020 Transformative Action Award recently closed, with this year’s award receiving 27 applications from cities, regions and civil society organisations across Europe.
Applications to this year’s award span 15 countries and cover a wide range of sustainab...
The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns (also known as Mannheim2020) is fast approaching. The event is part of a longstanding conference series that has, since 1994, inspired and catalysed urban sustainability in Europe. Most notably, the series has directly result...
The cities of Kiel, Buxtehude and Eltville am Rhein (Germany) have been revealed as the winners of the German Sustainability Award for Cities and Towns 2021. This prize recognises excellence in urban sustainability, and awards winners with a grant of €30,000 each to continue to push forward loc...
All summer, protests have spread across the world calling for racial justice and for organisations – from all sectors and levels of government – to take action to combat racism. These protests have made several things clear, including that racial justice is a critical component of climat...