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Report
Published: 2012

Local Sustainability 2012

Global Review and Case Studies how cities and local governments have taken up the work towards sustainability.

How to organise sustainable meetings & events in Brussels - A practical guide

The Guide provides organisers and hosts of meetings and events from 10 to 100 participants with practical information and recommendations on how to manage their meetings and events in held in Brussels more sustainably.
Tool
Published: 2011

Sustainable Water Management in the City of the Future

Increasing global change pressures, escalating costs and other risks inherent to conventional urban water management are causing cities to face ever-increasing difficulties in efficiently managing scarcer and less reliable water resources. In order to meet these challenges, SWITCH (Sustainable Water Management Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health) is attempted to facilitate a paradigm shift in urban water management. SWITCH was an action research programme funded by the European Union ...
Tool
Published: 2011

SWITCH Training Kit Integrated Urban Water Management in the City of the Future

‘The design and management of the urban water system based on an analysis of the entire system will lead to more sustainable solutions than separate design and management of elements of the system.’
One system – one approach!
From population growth to rapid urbanisation, changing consumption patterns to deteriorating infrastructure, increasing energy prices to climate change: water systems in cities throughout the world are confronted by an intimidating future. Integrated Urb...

Green Meeting Guide - Roll out the Green Carpet for your Participants

A practical guide for organisers of small to medium sized events.
Guidance document
Published: 2007

The Aalborg Commitments Implementation Guide - A 5 step approach

Main objective of this Implementation Guide is to support signatory Local Governments in responding to the requirements of the Aalborg Commitments.
Guidance document
Published: 2007

Zyklisches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement für Kommunen - Umsetzung der Aalborg Commitments in 5 Schritten

Hauptanliegen ist, Kommunen, die die Aalborg Commitments unterzeichnet haben, bei deren Umsetzung zu unterstützen/
Leading local governments through the Sustainability Cycle step by step
Guidance document
Published: 2007

Handbuch Projekt21

Einstieg in ein zyklisches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
Guidance on cyclical Sustainability Management for local governments
Guidance document
Published: 2004

The Aalborg Commitments

Ten years after the release of the Aalborg Charter, the 4th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns was again held in Aalborg (2004). The purpose of the event was to develop a common understanding of sustainability, and as a consequence to develop a framework to be used at the local level that would better articulate how to embed sustainability across municipality sectors. The Aalborg Commitments were agreed on by consensus of the conference participants, including organisations su...