Making finance work for cities means making cities ready for finance
Over the next fifteen years, the global urban population is going to increase significantly, and the built environment required to…
Two World Cities Project participants receive WWF accolades
Two of the Canadian participants in the EU-Canada Urban Policy Cooperation have received deserved recognition for their actions and accountability…
TAP Talk: ‘Forward, the Green Brigade!’ – Sir David King looks to catapult climate action on multiple fronts
Sir David King occupies a unique position in the world of climate action. As the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary’s permanent…
Back to class with the Manchester-based Carbon Literacy Project
In 1835, famed French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in Manchester (UK), which at the time of his visit…
Nantes: Non-state Actors: A Chance for Climate
How do you maintain the clarity of a message that reflects diverse scales of actors and contentious agendas? According to…
Postcards from the World Cities Project: Almada, Portugal
In the Municipality of Almada, the approach to being an international leader in EcoMobility begins with a twist: if sustainable…
Postcards from the World Cities Project: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
A common thread among local governments that are globally recognized as urban sustainability leaders – a category which includes the…
ICLEI & the World Cities Project at Open Days in Brussels
In stark contrast to the grey skies and scattered showers that had been (correctly) forecast for Brussels on 13 October,…
Cities in Action: Saanich cashing in on electric vehicle rebates
With fewer than six weeks until the Second Working Meeting of the EU-Canada Urban Policy Cooperation, the District of Saanich is…
The EU-Canada Urban Policy Cooperation
As the calendar gives way to September, delegations representing four cities each from Europe (Almada, Portugal; Hannover, Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; and…
5 Days to the World Congress: How do cities learn from science?
ICLEI is very much looking forward to welcoming participants to the Researchers’ Symposium at the ICLEI World Congress 2015 in Seoul, 8-12…
