When a city plants trees along a street, it is not running a climate program. It is making city streets…
Across the Kaohsiung–ICLEI Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Community of Practice, cities are turning peer learning into policy, finance and implementation. A new Good Practice Series shows why climate neutrality works best when innovation is integrated, people-centered and designed to improve everyday life.
Celebrated annually on 16 October, World Food Day highlights the theme “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow” in 2026, emphasizing how innovation,…
Created in 2021, LUPPA helps cities develop food policies that are systemic, intersectoral, coherent and participatory, and it currently connects more than 70 Brazilian municipalities in a network of learning, exchange and technical cooperation.
Rather than treating waste management in isolation, Colón is exploring how resource recovery, local planning, community participation, and climate action can all be connected.
Investments in stormwater infrastructure, preventive maintenance, and technical planning aim to reduce flood risks, protect communities, and maintain mobility.
While local governments may not regulate major industries directly, they are indispensable enablers of industrial mitigation ambition and implementation.
Women and men experience different risks on the road, shaped by how they travel and how mobility systems are designed. ICLEI’s Gender and Road Safety Framework explores how cities can integrate gender considerations into road safety, from street design and public transport to vehicles and post-crash care.
Clearer air, less noise and cleaner streets. Discover how Seoul, Republic of Korea, is reducing the environmental impact of urban development while protecting people and the environment.
The Ulaanbaatar Declaration emerging from the UNCCD COP17 Mayors’ Forum entered the formal record of a UNCCD COP, a first for cities and regions. COP17 also advanced finance and built momentum for greater coherence across the Rio Conventions, with the biodiversity and climate COPs and the UN Water Conference next.
The United Nations Environment Programme’s new Overshoot Report shows why every fraction of warming above 1.5°C matters, and what cities need to change in their planning, finance and governance.
When climate risk assessments leave gender out, the inequality that follows goes unmeasured, and unmeasured inequality never becomes a reason to change course.