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23 May 2023

Using Google’s EIE to accelerate climate action and sustainable urban mobility

Cities are working to identify sources of transport emissions to establish accurate emission reduction goals, and to define policies that effectively drive sustainable mobility transitions. Assessing climate impact from transportation at the local level is, however, complex. It requires multiple emi...

18 May 2023

Action on Mission Adaptation: €21 million will support 100 regions and communities

Communities and regions are hard at work building climate resilience and adaptation. In fact, according to the European Committee of the Regions, 90 percent of climate change adaptation measures are led at the local and regional level. How can we make sure that these cities and regions have the capa...

30 March 2023

ICLEI President Martin Horn calls for more direct support to municipalities at Covenant of Mayors Event in Brussels

On 29-30 March, Mayors part of the European Covenant of Mayors came together in ICLEI Member Brussels (Belgium) to discuss local climate and energy action in times of crisis. ICLEI Europe president Martin Horn, Lord Mayor of Freiburg (Germany), travelled to Brussels as a Covenant of Mayors board mem...

29 March 2023

ICLEI and the European Committee of the Regions present new Action Plan expanding cooperation on local sustainability and climate action

Today, ICLEI Europe President, Lord Mayor of Freiburg, Martin W.W. Horn, and the Chair of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) ENVE Commission, the Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski presented the ICLEI - CoR Action Plan for the years 2023/24. This document delineates concrete activities for...

22 March 2023

ICLEI welcomes new Members this March

ICLEI is pleased to announce the addition of four new cities to its network! València (Spain), Marmara Municipalities Union (MMU) (Turkey), Bitola (Republic of Northern Macedonia) and Eilat (Israel) are warmly welcomed into our sustainable development community. València (Spain) Val&...

16 March 2023

New project aims to incorporate social equity in climate interventions

Good climate measures are social climate measures, but too often these ideas are seen as separate and competing for resources and prioritisation. This concept is emphasised in the recently launched INCLU:DE project, which met for the first time on 7 March in Dortmund (Germany). Here, ICLEI met with ...

14 March 2023

ICLEI looks back at EURESFO 2022 - with a glimpse to the future

The 9th edition of the European Urban Resilience Forum (EURESFO) took place on 14 and 15 September 2022 in Athens, Greece. Once again, the Forum, organised by 20 partners, provided an exceptional platform for 70+ speakers and 300+ participants from across Europe and abroad to come together in 17 ses...

13 March 2023

Online capacity building programme shares insights on smart energy solutions

A new e-learning platform on sustainable energy solutions has just launched. The online Capacity Building Programme created by SESA - Smart Energy Solutions for Africa, is designed to close the knowledge gap around renewable and smart energy solution technologies and aims to help participants unders...

8 March 2023

New webinar series explores digitalisation as an approach to build urban resilience in Ukraine

With the ongoing war in Ukraine, thousands of people have lost their lives, with economic, environmental and social stresses putting the country’s local communities, cities and regions under pressing challenges that have forced millions of people to leave their homes. This has initiated wider ...