Call for Social Reporters: ICLEI World Congress 2015

Are you interested in the environment, sustainability, local governments, climate change, and the future of cities? Would you like to spend one week reporting on a major international congress and working with the communications team of the world’s leading local government network? Then we want to hear from you! We are looking for volunteer social 

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ICLEI Links: 19 December 2014

Welcome to the final 2014 edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! Thanks to all on Twitter and elsewhere for sharing. ICLEI News ICLEI’s view on the result of the COP20 in Lima ICLEI council 2015-2018 finalized City News  Seven ways Belo Horizonte, Brazil, inspires sustainable cities 

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ICLEI Links: 12 December 2014

Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links! This week we’re focusing all of our attention on ICLEI’s efforts at the COP20 in Lima. Here’s what’s happened so far in this busy week! Launch of First Global Standard to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities IISD report on the launch of the new GPC (VIDEO) 

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Lima hosts cities climate change meeting alongside COP20

Lima convenes the biggest gathering of Mayors and climate action experts after the New York Climate Summit 8 December 2014, Lima, Peru – The Peruvian capital Lima is hosting an important climate change meeting today among world mayors and experts to concretize their engagement in the new climate regime to be adopted in Paris next 

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Bristol becomes the 500th reporting city of carbonn Climate Registry

8 December 2014, Lima, Peru: The world’s leading reporting platform for local and subnational climate action – the carbonn Climate Registy (cCR) – welcomes its 500th reporting city today, with the new addition of the City of Bristol, United Kingdom. ICLEI, the leading cities network operating carbonn Climate Registry, announced this today at the ongoing 

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Launch of First Global Standard to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities

Today ICLEI, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) launched the first widely endorsed standard for cities to measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) uses a robust and clear framework to establish credible emissions accounting and reporting practices, thereby 

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