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3 December 2024

Guimarães and Águeda receive European Green City Awards for 2026

ICLEI Member Guimarães and Águeda (Portugal), have achieved prestigious recognition in the European Green Cities Awards 2026! Announced on 27 November, Guimarães was crowned European Green Capital 2026, while Águeda was named one of the European Green Leaf 2026 winners, a...

Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility

14 November 2024

Local and subnational leaders rally for enhanced multilevel collaboration at COP29

Building on the LGMA Joint Position that has been endorsed by nearly 100 local and regional governments and their networks, leaders from the LGMA Constituency are advocating for the development, financing, and execution of ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and other key strategies...

13 November 2024

Saitama City brings the G7 to COP29

Despite cities being home to the majority of G7 citizens, local governments are not yet systematically consulted by national governments on critical decisions affecting their communities. The Urban7 (U7) is seeking to change that within the G7 group of countries. Local government representation in ...

11 November 2024

Showcasing that #MultilevelActionDelivers at COP29

ICLEI Europe will join forces with the entire ICLEI network and with local and regional leaders from across the globe at COP29 (or: the 29th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties) to demonstrate once again that #MultilevelActionDelivers. COP29 will ...

5 November 2024

G7 Urban Ministers Meeting recommends formally engaging cities in the G7 process

On 4 November, the G7 Sustainable Urban Development Ministers met in Rome (Italy) to propose a set of joint actions aimed at advancing urban transformations. Among the list of joint actions, the Ministers included the explicit recommendation to formally include cities in the G7 decision-making proce...

30 October 2024

Empowering cities towards a climate-neutral future: The Aalborg Conditions and Europe's path to sustainability

The climate challenge will be won or lost at the local and regional level. As we enter this new legislative period, cities need the right framework conditions at the national and European levels to build a climate-neutral and competitive Europe. This aligns with President of the European Commission,...

Circular Economy

29 October 2024

Zaragoza inaugurates Europe’s first flagship biorefinery

A new biorefinery in ICLEI Member Zaragoza (Spain), inaugurated this month, holds the potential to transform how cities manage waste. At full capacity, this facility can process 300 million tonnes of urban solid waste and sludge annually, converting it into high-value products like biopolymers, biof...

Biodiversity & NBS Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Sustainable Energy Systems

21 October 2024

ICLEI welcomes new members to its network

The ICLEI network continues to grow, thanks to the addition of four new Members: Marseille (France), Setúbal (Portugal), Opsterland (The Netherlands) and Merzifon (Türkiye). At ICLEI we believe that transformational change begins at the local level, where cities and regions play a key ro...