The 2018 Tranformative Action Award Ceremony is set to take place on 15 November 2018 at 12:30 (CET) in the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Brussels (Belgium). The award ceremony, organised by ICLEI, the Basque Country and the City of Aalborg (Denmark) and supported by the European Committe...
ICLEI Member Nijmegen (The Netherlands) was recently awarded the much-coveted Green Destinations Gold Award by Green Destinations during the Global Green Destinations Day, which recently took place in European Green Capital 2018, Nijmegen. Green Destinations is a non-profit organisation for sustain...
Just days after the IPCC published its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, setting a new urgency for climate action within the next 12 years, ICLEI Europe welcomed over 100 representatives of municipalities, European institutions and researchers to the conference “Climate Resilient ...
As part of the 3rd European Nutrient event taking place in Rimini (Italy), 8-9 November, ICLEI will host a roundtable titled ‘Growing sustainable business opportunities with bio-based fertilisers.’ The event, which is being organised by Ecomondo Scientific Technical Committee, European ...
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) marks the strongest international warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures. Limiting this increase to 1.5ºC requires rapid and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. In this context, the ninth L...
As part of the 2018 Local Renewables Conference, ICLEI organised a session titled ‘The wastewater utility of the future: A key player of the circular city?’ In this session, researchers from the INCOVER project presented their work on innovative technologies for recovering a variety of ...
Today, international policy makers from all levels of government, energy and resource experts, researchers and business will come together in Freiburg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland) for the 9th Local Renewables Conference, 24-26 October. Organised across borders by ICLEI-Local Governments for Su...
The European Commission has recently announced the winning cities of the third call for projects under the Urban Innovative Actions, a funding mechanism which provides EU cities with resources to finance innovative projects, which aim to provide concrete solutions to common urban challenges. Of the...
Providers of digital technologies for cities promise to make our cities more sustainable, livable, efficient and innovative. In reality, local governments are facing difficult questions and decisions that need to be discussed openly and critically on whether these technologies can deliver on such pr...
