ICLEI Links: 10 June 2016
Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City…
Smart productive cities or how can cities achieve sustainability by creating their own resources?
How can cities use ‘smart’ projects and frameworks to achieve a net positive gain in their resource? Today, as part…
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…
Sino-German Urbanization Partnership strengthening around sustainable urban development
Under the umbrella of the Sino-German Urbanization Partnership, German and Chinese high-level representatives from the Ministries of Environment and local…
How these five global cities have improved their air quality
Air quality is a major issue in most large cities worldwide, but it also impacts on the surrounding rural and…
Paradoxes of a Smart City – Part 3: Open data vs data management
Open data has become an important concept in the Smart Cities debate. By opening up vaults of municipally-generated information, local…
Facilitating climate solutions for local governments to raise ambition and accelerate action
Who should engage in raising ambition and accelerating climate action? Over the last two weeks, national and local representatives gathered…
From Agenda 21 to COP21: Addressing resilience in cities and informal settlements
By Omar Siddique, Senior Urban Specialist, Cities Alliance Chapter 7 on ‘human settlements’, which emerged from the first Rio Conference…
Updates from UN Bonn Climate Change Conference 2016, 16-27 May, SB44/APA1
CONFERENCE LINKS Conference website – http://unfccc.int/meetings/bonn_may_2016/meeting/9413.php IISD Earth Negotiations Coverage is available at http://www.iisd.ca/climate/sb44/ ICLEI DOCUMENTS LGMA Intervention at the…
ICLEI celebrates 20 years of work on Sustainable Public Procurement
ICLEI is celebrating 20 years of work on sustainable procurement. Sustainable procurement brings environmental, societal and economic benefits at the local level,…
Building Resilience in Informal Settlements
Building resilience in cities should enhance the quality of life for all residents. Yet resilience planning, like urban development, has…
Cities Are “Underdeveloped” – But Cooperation Can Change That
Through forming partnerships across different sectors of society, cities can transform themselves from being output based to outcome based, greatly…