Welcome to another edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of online sustainability stories! Thanks to all on Twitter and elsewhere for sharing. ICLEI Stories ICLEI World Congress 2015 in review City Stories New York City Announces New Resilience Plan, Champions City Resilience Belo Horizonte’s Food Security Policy Energy Stories Judith Sayers, First Nations run-of-river hydro
ICLEI Stories Solutions Gateway now open to all cities This Earth Day, ICLEI celebrates city climate action City Stories Evanston places fourth in international city competition Chernobyl arch faces €265m funding gap ahead of disaster’s 29th anniversary Development threatens to dry up Mexico City’s floating market gardens Energy Stories FUELING THE RACE TO THE TOP
Below you can find some of the most popular news stories from the ICLEI World Congress´media coverage Global cities vow stronger climate change efforts The Korea Herald – Published on 7 April 2015, 8:36 pm Representatives of more than 200 cities from around the world are gathering to pledge stronger efforts against climate change at a
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