Unlocking Cities and Regions’ Potential in the EU’s Competitiveness Agenda
To shape a competitiveness agenda that benefits all territories—from metropolitan hubs to rural regions — ICLEI has published a new position paper, calling for an EU competitiveness agenda that strengthens cities’ and regions’ roles in the EU’s industrial, digital, and sustainability strategies.
Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer supports solar energy communities development in the Metropolitan City of Rome
Rome, supported by Federesco, is boosting solar energy generation. ICLEI Europe aided Federesco in using Google’s EIE to validate rooftop solar data, enabling the Sun4U project to identify optimal areas for renewable energy communities (RECs).
How Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer Assists Thessaloniki’s Climate-Neutrality Goals
Thessaloniki uses Google’s EIE transportation data to assess mobility trends, track progress toward its 2030 climate targets (80% overall and 45% transport emission reductions), and measure impacts of new infrastructure. EIE insights guide a net-zero pilot in Dioikitirion, scalable to other districts.
Bridging the data gap: How Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer informs Lisbon’s Sustainable Mobility Transformation
Lisbon targets climate neutrality by 2030, with mobility crucial for emission reductions. Limited transport data, last updated in 2017, is now supplemented by Google’s EIE, providing annual insights on trips, distances, and emissions to guide sustainable mobility planning.
A joint call for stronger political leadership of the 5 EU Missions
Alongside ERRIN, Eurocities, Energy Cities and the Resilient Cities Network, ICLEI has sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, urging her to take political ownership of the five EU Missions as part of her leadership on Europe’s Clean, Just and Competitive Transition.
This report provides an overview of the key activities that took place as part of the development and implementation of the ICLEI Ukraine Roadmap adopting the EU Local Green Deal 'inside-out' approach, and provides highlights on how the European Urban Resilience Forum discussions and partnerships helped pave the way across the years for the engagement of the Ukrainian cities with European partners to help build resilience for their cities and communities
Mainstreaming resilience and climate adaptation policies in the EU’s Strategic Agenda 2024 - 2029
This document aims to provide recommendations to the EU’s Strategic Agenda 2024 - 2029 in order to mainstream resilience and adaptation across various policy areas and governance layers. These recommendations are building on ICLEI Europe’s decades-long experience, as well as the goals of the EU Adaptation Strategy, the assessment of the data published in Copernicus’ European State of the Climate Report 2023 and drawing on the European Environment Agency's first-ever European Climate Risk A...
ICLEI Europe’s Position Paper on the EU’s 2040 Climate Target
In February 2024, the European Commission proposed an EU-wide 90% net emission reduction target by 2040, following the recommendation from the European Scientific Advisory Body on Climate Change (ESABCC) to set a 2040 climate target of 90- 95% emission reductions. While presenting the 2040 target in the European Parliament, Commissioner Hoekstra highlighted the need for a dialogue and an extensive outreach to discuss how to reach this crucial intermediary target of 2040.
We welcome the Commissi...
