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2025 Local Sustainability Award report

The 2025 Local Sustainability Award report gives a comprehensive overview of the inaugural edition of the Award.
This Award, organised by ICLEI Europe together partners Bertelsmann Stiftung, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the City of Aalborg, celebrates transformative projects that align with the Aalborg Conditions and set new standards in local sustainability leadership.

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.
Case study
Published: 2025

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).
Case study
Published: 2025

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.
Case study
Published: 2025

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.

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...

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...

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...
Case study
Published: 2024

How Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) Supports Sustainability Efforts in Spanish Cities

To combat the climate emergency Spain declared in 2020, the country put sustainability and digitalisation centre to its development. Many Spanish cities are already leading the way towards climate neutrality and experiences from Madrid and Vitoria-Gasteiz show how digital platforms including Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) can support efforts in Spanish cities. EIE provides free, virtually accessible, granular data on transportation and building emissions, rooftop solar ener...