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5 October 2018

Barcelona and Rotterdam win procurement awards at 2018 Procura+ awards ceremony

The biggest successes in public procurement were honoured last night at the EcoProcura conference in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, with a clutch of top class projects in sustainability and innovation winning the 2018 Procura+ Awards. ICLEI Members Barcelona (Spain) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), an...

Mobility Membership

21 September 2018

Ghent wins Bold Measure Award at the 2018 CIVITAS Awards

The winners of the 2018 CIVITAS Awards were recently revealed during an award ceremony in Umeå (Sweden). This year’s “Bold Measure Award”, which is given to the city that adopts a daring and innovative approach that has not been widely implemented yet, was given to ICLEI Memb...

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13 September 2018

Bologna, Ghent and Tirana shortlisted for 2018 Transformative Action Award

The shortlisted candidates for the 2018 Transformative Action Award were revealed today at the URBACT Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. The award, which is co-organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, The Basque Country and the City of Aalborg (Denmark), rewards current or conclu...

Advocacy Membership

11 September 2018

Monika Zimmermann, former Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI, sets her sights on new challenges after 25 years at ICLEI

As of September 2018, Monika Zimmermann has stepped down from her position as Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI. From organizing the Municipal Leaders Summit on Climate Change in 1993 to acting as the Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of the ICLEI World Secretariat, Monika dedic...

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7 September 2018

Strasbourg to host international conference on sustainability

The University of Strasbourg (France) is set to host a conference on international sustainability, 27-28 September. The conference, which is organised by the Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research, will bring together 27 speakers from France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and India to discu...

6 August 2018

2018 Transformative Action Award receives record number of entries

The application deadline for the 2018 Transformative Action Award recently closed, with this year’s award setting a record for the number of applications received. In total 40 innovative and inspiring Transformative Actions from cities, regions and civil society organisations across Europe wer...

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3 August 2018

Münster named Germany’s most sustainable city

ICLEI Member Münster was recently announced as the winner of the German Sustainability Award for Cities and Towns 2019 after beating off competition from ICLEI Members Mannheim and Heidelberg. The German Sustainability Award for Cities and Towns is the national award for excellence in sustaina...

Procurement Membership

2 August 2018

ICLEI Members Aalborg, Copenhagen, Cork and Rotterdam shortlisted for Procura+ Awards

The shortlist of nominees for the 2018 Procura+ Awards were recently announced. The awards, which are organised by the Procura+ European Sustainable Procurement network, reward successful, already running, sustainable and innovative public procurements in three categories: Innovation Procurement of ...

Advocacy Membership

1 August 2018

Today the earth has used up all its resources for 2018

Today marks Earth Overshoot Day 2018, the date when humanity has used more ecological resources and services than our planet can renew for this year. Since the event first started, a worrying trend has been observed with Earth Overshoot Day falling on an earlier date almost every year. In 2000, Ear...

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