ICLEI at 30: An interview with Rodrigo Perpétuo, Executive Secretary of ICLEI South America
New York, September 1990. During the 1st World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the headquarters of…
Clean air – time to celebrate or accelerate?
Authors: Maryke van Staden, Director of carbonn Climate Center and Felix Akrofi-Atitianti, Integrated Climate Action Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat As…
Pittsburgh’s fight for clean air, water and growth
Pittsburgh has become the poster child for how to transition from highly impacted industrial town to a healthy and vibrant…
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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…
Radical redesign for a circular economy: An interview with Circular Development Head Burcu Tuncer
Cities are complex systems in and of themselves, and in today’s globalized economy, cities around the world are closely intertwined…
Why climate neutrality needs circularity
“How we make and use products and how we produce food generates almost half of the emissions in our current…
Strong Message from Japan in ICLEI’s Race to Zero Dialogues
On the 5th of June 2020, the UN High-Level Climate Champions for Action, Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Munoz launched the…
Five cities shift from industry to equity
Industrial legacy cities have been significantly impacted by the decline of manufacturing, which left them with soaring unemployment, rapid population…
Building green and inclusive cities
Cities all around the world are implementing ambitious mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond to climate change: from urban greenery…
How to use socially innovative policy making for an inclusive energy transition
If there is anything to be learned from the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ protest in France, is that social innovation should accompany…
How Rotterdam and Buenos Aires use procurement to contribute to the global clean energy transition
How Rotterdam and Buenos Aires use procurement to contribute to the global clean energy transition You’ve heard the slogans: Time…
This World Environment Day, Amazonian cities remind us why preserving biodiversity is essential
By Rodrigo de Oliveira Perpetuo, Regional Director ICLEI South America Secretariat Read the original article in Portuguese. World Environment Day…