ICLEI Stories Seoul announced as 2015 Earth Hour City Challenge Capital Major announcements to drive transformative climate action unveiled ahead of 2015 Paris Climate Conference Launches, marches and mobile workshops: World Congress Day 3 highlights ICLEI World Congress 2015 closes with focus on extending partnerships ICLEI at 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting of HABITATIII HABITATII 1996
Edmonton, Canada Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton, Canada, explains how hosting the ICLEI World Congress 2009 helped to showcase different projects the city was working on, as well as to propel new initiatives. Since that year, Edmonton city has been enhancing sustainable procurement, partnering with different organizations; introducing new technology to improve waste management; developing
ICLEI Stories 100 Mayors adopt Seoul Declaration for sustainable cities Seoul City Mayor elected as new ICLEI President Landmark ICLEI World Congress opens in Seoul Tackling the energy transition is only possible with the active role of cities: Asian launch of the DistrictEnergy in Cities Initiative and Flagship Report at ICLEI World Congress 2015 ICLEI
Today, Mayor Park Won Soon, the citizens of Seoul and the congress delegates led a march which demonstrated the power of local action initiatives. One great example of a citizen-driven initiative is the newly launched “11 Promises of Seoul”. The Promise of Seoul outlines eleven concrete pledges from the citizens to promote sustainability and fight
From Johannesburg, South Africa to Paris, France to Seoul, South Korea, cities around the world are demonstrating collective leadership to fight climate change. Today, these megacities and 33 other leading cities and towns intensified their commitment to climate action by pledging to comply to the Compact of Mayors. “One of the most effective ways cities
Today the new Transformative Actions Program (TAP) was launched to improve access to existing capital flows to cities and regions, as well as to catalyze and accelerate additional capital flows from public and private investors. Gino Van Begin, Secretary General of ICLEI, commented: “The Transformative Actions Program is the result of an inclusive and cooperative effort
The city of Seoul has been awarded the title Global Earth Hour Capital 2015. Seoul impressed an international jury of experts with its comprehensive approach to tackling climate change and its determination to ramp up use of renewable energy. The city’s approach to radically reducing emissions includes actions such as allocating a realistic budget
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began the Opening Plenary today by delivering a message commending Mayor Park Wonsoon for his leadership on urban sustainability. Ban Ki-moon expressed his belief that cities would drive a global transformation and encouraged them to strengthen their networks.
SEOUL (April 9, 2015)— The World Resources Institute, led by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and its carbonn Center announced a new partnership to help cities worldwide reduce their carbon footprint and pursue sustainable urban development. The two organizations formalized the agreement at the ICLEI World Congress in Seoul,