Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories Building Healthy Cities Barcelona’s Not-At-All Sexy But Highly Effective Scheme to Cut Emissions Norway’s Plan To Get Rid Of Cars Involves A New Billion-Dollar Bike Highway “We Can’t Keep Building Higher Walls”: So How
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories How Much Money U.S. Transit Systems Lose Per Trip, in 1 Chart – Data and analysis on the subsidies provided for public transit systems in US cities. All public transit systems lose money, but the
Q. What is one important particularity of working with local governments in the Oceania region? One important thing to bear in mind is that the Oceania region is effectively 2-3 distinct regions. Australia and New Zealand, as developed countries, are fairly similar, with similar cultural backgrounds. But they have different geographies and histories, so it’s
In a previous blog post, the ICLEI Smart Cities team explored three smart cities examples and argued that smart cities are not about technology but about defining their sustainable development path. We also proposed that cities in practice have moved on from the question “what is a smart city?” to “what works for us and
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories Leadership by US Cities: Innovation in Climate Action (PDF) How Can We Make Smart Cities? China Adopts New Urbanization Guidelines Return of the Bicycle Kingdom? How Pavement Cycling is Transforming Taipei The Next Big Thing
Post by Laura Kavanaugh, Resilient Cities Team Leader, ICLEI World Secretariat Resilience as a concept within the field of environmental sustainability is a relatively new development. Previously, policy makers and sustainability professionals tended to think in terms of Urban Risk or Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). That is to say, they were concerned with how well
The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement has welcomed two new participants: the City of Tshwane (South Africa) and Budapest (Hungary). By signing the GLCN on SP Commitments’ Document, both cities have expressed their desire to take a leading role globally in the implementation of sustainable public procurement, to act as global and regional
The Mexico City Habitat III meeting on financing urban development is underway. The meeting is meant to provide input to the consultations on the New Urban Agenda concept, to be adopted at the 3rd UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito later this year. Local governments have an enormous potential
The 2nd Resilience Cities Asia-Pacific congress came to a close yesterday, here in the beautiful and historic city of Melaka in Malaysia. Three days of sharing, deliberating, learning, and networking, interspersed with opportunities to experience the vibrant culture and the culinary delights of our hosts. The end of this Congress was aptly marked by the
After two days of deliberations that reaffirmed the importance of building resilience in cities and promoting initiatives from city mayors and councilors, the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2016 congress closed on 4 March. The Congress, held in conjunction with the 16th International Convention on Melaka Twin Cities, was officially opened by YB Datuk Abdul Rahman bin
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