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Responses to public consultations
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,...
Published: 2025

Detailed analysis of the EU Clean Industrial Deal: A step forward, but key role of local and regional governments is overlooked

The European Commission published its long-awaited EU Clean Industrial Deal. The Deal plan promises “a joint roadmap for competitiveness and decarbonisation” aiming to boost action on the following 6 areas: affordable energy, lead markets, financing, circularity and access to material, global markets and international partnerships and skills. This is ICLEI Europe's detailed read of the document from perspective of cities and regions.

A grounded EU budget: Investing in Europe, our local communities and citizens for a competitive, resilient and fair future

Local Alliance Position Paper on the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
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.
Letters and statements
Published: 2025

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.

Local Alliance Briefing: Unlocking the Potential of Local and Regional Governments in the Social Climate Fund

This exclusive report from eight major European local and regional government networks including ICLEI reveals that vulnerable households in the EU are at risk of being underserved by the €86 billion Social Climate Fund (SCF) due to inadequate consultation of local and regional governments by national governments.

Policy Brief: Transforming Europe’s building stock for a fair, affordable, climate-neutral future

This policy brief outlines the major challenges associated with the transformation of European building stock from local governments and authorities’ perspective, in addition to discussing current legislation in place. The brief will then present suggestions to address these challenges and turn the EU building stock from a major roadblock to a driving force for a climate-neutral, fair and sustainable future.