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Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

29 May 2018

Cities are coming together to make the journey towards a resilient future

A new video shows the journey of seven cities towards a resilient future. Climate scenarios of increasing storms, floods and heat waves have lately become a reality and are putting citizens’ health and lives at risk as a result of climate change. Human-made disasters such as terrorist attacks...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Advocacy

25 May 2018

Putting the Basque Declaration into practice: implementation event to be held in Bilbao

Since hundreds of cities from over 40 countries first endorsed the Basque Declaration two years ago at the 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns in Bilbao (Spain), commitment to the Declaration has been gaining momentum. New signatories are joining the movement and cities are taki...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

16 May 2018

Climate change adaptation practice is stopping short: it’s time to work on real-life consequences

Those in the climate change adaptation community have largely used ‘vulnerability’, or the propensity to be affected by hazard, as their frame for understanding and responding to climate change. A new research paper in Sustainability calls on climate change practitioners in cities to sh...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

14 May 2018

Is standardisation useful for climate adaptation?

Standardisation is most commonly associated with safety regulations, and technical equipment such as mobile phone chargers, but is becoming increasingly relevant to people-centred processes, such as management. Just as standardising a mobile phone charger ensures high quality and transferability, s...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

7 May 2018

Cities share benefits of taking a collaborative approach to resilience at Bonn event

The cities of the Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) project met for the closing occasion of SMR’s successful Tier 3 city programme last week in Bonn (Germany) and shared their opinions on why a collaborative approach to resilience works best.  “The most important thing we learned [thro...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

4 May 2018

Local authorities urged to join EU process for improving quality of life in cities at Bonn event

The municipalities of Bologna and Genoa (Italy) and the European Investment Bank last week called for the local governments that met at the Open European Day event in Bonn (Germany) to contribute to the European Urban Agenda by participating in the EU Partnerships on Adaptation and on Land Use Plann...
Biodiversity Climate Change Mitigation Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Procurement Advocacy

25 April 2018

EU Green week to see strong ICLEI representation

For the first time, the EU Green Week (May 21-25) will not take place exclusively in Brussels (Belgium), but instead the opening ceremony will take place on May 21 in Utrecht (The Netherlands), the closing ceremony will take place on May 25 in Madrid (Spain) and the mid-week events will take place, ...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

18 April 2018

Open European Day 2018 set to be biggest edition in the series

The fifth edition of Open European Day has proven to be the most popular edition yet. Cities are acutely aware of the challenges they are facing and are coming together to discuss these challenges and share solutions with their peers and experts from the world of science and research. Speakers to j...
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

17 April 2018

Newly released research will lead to a more resilient Europe

54 partner organisations across five EU-funded projects have come together to recommend new European Resilience Management Guidelines. Developed over the last three years, these guidelines have the potential to improve the security and safety of citizens and society. At a major event in Brussels (B...
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