World Water Day calls for building peaceful, inclusive futures
Gender-inclusive, multilevel, and cross-boundary water governance approaches are ever more crucial for achieving peace and safety. Such approaches can improve…
Synchronize your calendar with our pick of urban sustainable development events
Keep important sustainability events right in your own calendar! You can subscribe to a global events list that highlights political…
UrbanShift Asia Forum 2023: Transforming cities for a sustainable tomorrow
This blog was written by Rene Nüsslein, Karishma Asarpota, and Matteo Bizzotto from ICLEI, and Eillie Anzilotti from WRI In…
Making school meals healthy for our children and planet
Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm to address public health and territorial, social, and environmental resilience: This…
Enhancing local climate action: Moving toward greater and greener resilience
This blog post was written by Dewi Sari and Kanak Gokarn with contributions from the Resilient Development and Sustainable Energy…
Learning to live with water scarcity
Ingrid Coetzee, Director of Biodiversity, Nature and Health for ICLEI Africa, recently shared her expertise with the international broadcaster Deutsche…
Daring Cities 2020: Top 5 most popular thematic sessions
A first-of-its kind virtual event, Daring Cities 2020 positioned itself as the global forum for urban leaders taking action on…
Framing sustainable urban logistics in cities
Freight movement forms an invisible ecosystem that supports urban economies and communities. Freight transport makes up about 25 percent of…
Three decades of local action towards urban sustainability: ICLEI at 30
On September 5, 1990, local government officials representing 200 cities from 43 nations gathered at the United Nations in New…
What to watch this year at UN75
The last two weeks of September is the time when the United Nations General Assembly meets to adopt the agenda…
Call for application open for the ESD Okayama Award 2020
ICLEI Japan is pleased to announce that the ‘ESD Okayama Award 2020’ is open for entry. It rewards outstanding practices in Education for…
Advocacy and ICLEI events affected by COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many in-person events relating to local and regional governments and sustainability have been cancelled, postponed…
