Technical Assessment of Transportation Data from Google Environmental Insights Explorer
The following technical assessment outlines the results of ICLEI Europe’s analysis of the Google Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) tool. It investigates how EIE data is able to support cities in their efforts to reduce local-level transport emissions and promote sustainable urban mobility.
Recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement
Eight recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement for national and EU policy makers developed by ICLEI as part of the EU-funded StratKIT project and together with the Procura+ City Interest Group on School Food Procurement.
The Power of the Public Plate - Recommendations for procurers and policy makers
The recommendations address the different stages of the food value chain to make it more sustainable: input industry, primary production, food processing and packaging, transport and logistics, retail, food service, individual consumption and finally, waste and disposal.
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the UN One Planet Network published a series of podcasts called the ‘Power of the Public Plate’. Each episode explores the story of a champion of sustainable public food procurement. Listeners will discover how public authorities from around the world leverage procurement to positively impact the food value chain, and ultimately contribute to making our food systems more sustainable.
Policy Brief #03: Financing the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage: Enabling complementary financing instruments for bottom-up initiatives
In this Policy Brief, we present recommendations for policy makers, heritage officers, and planners, at national and sub-national levels of government. These recommendations aim to support the implementation of adaptive heritage reuse projects. The recommendations are based on our work in the OpenHeritage project and in particular our reports on policy and the governance dialogue.
Financing the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage is a challenging undertaking and requires the orchestration of co...
Devolution to cities: A case study of KL - Local Government Denmark
Many countries are debating the effectiveness of devolving governing responsibilities to cities. There is increasing recognition that many citizen-facing responsibilities, such as kindergartens, schools, elderly care, unemployment benefits, skills and job training, refugee shelter, and the integration of immigrants take place in cities under the management of municipalities. However, the fiscal capacity of cities to provide these services varies widely in different countries. For instance, conti...