Cities empowering youth for climate action: Lessons to replicate (and how to do it)
International Youth Day on 12 August recognizes young people as drivers of change. How can local and regional governments effectively…
Cities and Subnationals Weigh in on a Global Plastics Treaty at INC-2
This blog was written in collaboration with Ariel Dekovic, Charis Hoffmann, Kobie Brand, and Togo Uchida from ICLEI. In early…
Sustainable food systems to have strong presence at COP27 in Egypt
The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit stood as a stepping stone for putting food systems at the center of the…
Making school meals healthy for our children and planet
Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm to address public health and territorial, social, and environmental resilience: This…
Listen. Include. Empower. How local communities take central stage at COP26
Subnational governments have found their home at the Multilevel Action Pavilion at COP26, a place for debate, knowledge exchange, and…
A Cities and Regions Guide to COP26
Everything your city or region needs to know about this year’s global climate event and driving multilevel climate action during…
Betting on Multilevel Climate Action for COP26 in Glasgow
On 17-18 March 2021, the Ministry of Environment of Japan will convene the Zero Carbon City International Forum, which has…
Tracking progress en route from Madrid to Glasgow
In a parallel universe, we would be gathered this week in Glasgow for COP26, but instead we are facing a…
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Collaboration cultivates innovation: How ICLEI Africa and the City of Cape Town have been pioneering local sustainability action for two decades
In its 30 years of urban sustainability work, ICLEI has partnered closely with many of the world’s cities to form…
Localization of the SDG Process
The global community reached a milestone this year: seventy-five years ago, on 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United…
Accelerating the Race to Zero carbon: Multiple paths leading to the same destination
From left to right: Shinjiro Koizumi, Minister of Environment of Japan; Minna Arve, Mayor of Turku, Finland; Ashok Sridharan, Mayor…
What’s Happening on World Environment Day (5 June 2020)?
Recalling the legacy of the UN Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, the UN Environment Programme takes…