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Letters and statements
Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2025

Prioritising urban and regional mobility investment: A Strategic Pillar for Europe’s Competitiveness

This joint letter by local and regional governments and transport networks calls for prioritisation of investment in urban and regional mobility in the upcoming Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP). The letter supported by POLIS, ICLEI Europe, Eurocities, European Metropolitan Transport Authorities (EMTA), European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), UITP, and EIT Urban Mobility was sent to EU decision-makers to support the Commission’s broader effort to boost Europe’s competit...
Handbook / Guide
Circular Economy Sustainable Food Systems
Published: 2025

Feeding people, not landfills: using social norms to tackle food waste in cities

This practical guidance, developed by ICLEI and CSCP as part of the CHORIZO Horizon Europe project, supports local governments in reducing food waste by working with social norms. Drawing on behavioural science and city case studies, the document outlines an 8-step method to plan, implement and evaluate interventions. It highlights how unwritten rules and shared behaviours influence food waste, and offers cities tools to harness these dynamics in areas such as procurement, public awareness, wast...
Handbook / Guide
Procurement
Published: 2025

Buy better to build better: a 2030 vision for green public procurement

The Buy Better to Build Better coalition (BBBB) unites forward-thinking stakeholders from across the construction sector, civil society, and public authorities. Members share a commitment to elevating public procurement as a core lever for driving demand for innovative solutions, while maintaining European industry at the forefront of technological progress.
Responses to public consultations
Procurement
Published: 2025

Evaluation of Public Procurement Directives: Response to Call for Evidence

ICLEI Europe, a network of local governments, evaluates the effectiveness of the 2014 EU Procurement Directives in promoting strategic and sustainable public procurement (SPP). Since 1996, ICLEI has supported members in addressing procurement impacts through research, projects, and the Procura+ European Sustainable Procurement Network. The organisation has engaged in thousands of interactions with public bodies across the EU (2016-2024), contributing to SPP-related initiatives, events, training,...
Position paper
Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Procurement
Published: 2025

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.
Position paper
Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2024

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...
Letters and statements
Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Construction Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2024

Local Alliance Letter to EU Leaders to stay the course on Green Deal implementation

Local Alliance, European networks of local and regional governments, representing cities and regions ranging from the smallest rural towns to the largest metropolitan capitals across all EU Member States, wish to underscore the importance of staying on course to implement the European Green Deal under this and next mandates of the European Commission. European local and regional governments have already embarked on the journey to climate neutrality and started to transform our cities and regions...
Letters and statements
Sustainable Food Systems
Published: 2024

Joint letter to call for this Commission to leave a legacy of the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy through sustainable public food procurement

In a joint letter addressed to President Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission, ICLEI Europe and IFOAM Organics Europe, together with 15 organisations with an expertise on sustainable food systems, are urging the European Commission to leave a lasting and concrete legacy of the EU Farm to Fork strategy through sustainable public food procurement (SFP).
The joint letter highlights the critical role of SFP in realising the goals set by the EU Farm to Fork strategy and underscores its p...
Letters and statements
Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Construction Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2024

Statement from the Coalition for Higher Ambition on the EU 2040 Climate Target

ICLEI and its partners from the Coalition for Higher Ambition rallied broad support for a science-based 2040 climate target. Ahead of the publication of the European Commission’s Communication on the EU Climate Target 2040 in February, members of the Coalition have prepared a joint letter calling for a science-based target of at least 90% net emission reductions to limit global temperature rise to below 1.5°C.
In the letter addressed to the Presidents of the three main institutions of...
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