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Report
Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Climate Neutral Cities Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Justice, Equity & Democracy Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2025

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.
Report
Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2025

Fast & Fair Deployment of Renewables & Grids - Voices from Local Governments

Despite the overall positive public sentiment towards renewable energies, local opposition to additional projects continues to be a major cause for delays in deployment. The Fast & Fair Renewables & Grids Initiative provides the first Europe-wide cross-sectoral consensus, with a framework for facilitating renewable energy and grid projects that are perceived as fair for all. Developed in collaboration with stakeholders from civil society, local government, commercial and non-pr...
Policy brief
Communications Justice, Equity & Democracy Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2025

Local Governments still left out of national Social Climate Plans

With the deadline near, Local Governments still left out of national Social Climate Plans. This Policy Brief is a follow up to the original survey conducted by the Local Alliance, including ICLEI Europe, confirming a lack of engagement of local and regional governments in the design of national plans, despite legal obligations. 
The EU Social Climate Fund (SCF), designed to mitigate the social impacts of the new Emissions Trading System (ETS2) – that extends carbon pricing to additio...
Handbook / Guide
Sustainable Energy Systems Climate Change Mitigation
Published: 2025

Practical Implementation Guide: Carbon Offsetting

As urban areas account for up to 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions, local governments play a critical role in climate change mitigation. The new Practical Implementation Guide on Carbon Offsetting, developed in conjunction with the Urban Transition Mission Center (UTMC), which ICLEI is part of, stresses that while aggressive emissions reduction must remain cities’ top priority, high-quality carbon offsetting can serve as a complementary tool to accelerate progress toward net-zero targ...
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...
Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2024

Principles of Cooling Cities

As Europe faces the growing challenges of climate change, the urgency to address rising urban temperatures is clear. Cities, home to most Europeans, are at the forefront, grappling with the urban heat island effect, extreme heatwaves, and increasing related energy consumption. To create resilient, equitable, and climate-neutral cities, we must adopt a transformative approach. This document builds on the Aalborg Conditions which is the strategic vision put out by ICLEI Europe during the 10th Euro...
Handbook / Guide
Built Environment & Culture Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2024

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.
Policy brief
Member Relations Justice, Equity & Democracy Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2024

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.
Handbook / Guide
Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Circular Economy Justice, Equity & Democracy Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility
Published: 2024

Case Study Guides on Shared Actions for the Green Deal

Collecting experience from 24 local actions across Europe to highlight how communities can help advance European Green Deal objectives, this guide presents concrete ideas on different topics of the European Green Deal.
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