It anticipates, prevents, absorbs, and recovers from shocks, especially those from rapid environmental, technological, social, and demographic changes while strengthening response systems and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in our society.
When a city plants trees along a street, it is not running a climate program. It is making city streets…
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.
This blog examines the interdependence between equity and resilience, exploring how climate-related risks are experienced across different regions and how ICLEI’s work around the world integrates both in responding to these risks.
When climate risk assessments leave gender out, the inequality that follows goes unmeasured, and unmeasured inequality never becomes a reason to change course.
In Pazaryeri, it does not take a major flood to ruin a shop or damage a home, and it does not take a major intervention to prevent it.
In Izmir, four departments stopped working in silos and built one shared curriculum, with results none of them expected.
Heat Action Day, celebrated every year on 2 June, is a moment to recognize the scale of the challenge and the growing range of responses cities are leading. Across ICLEI’s network, those responses take many forms.
Sitting at the edge of the Amazon rainforest, surrounded by rivers, parks, and some of the richest biodiversity on the planet, Belém seems an unlikely place to talk about heat as a crisis. And yet…
The impacts of climate hazards are not gender-neutral; women are often among those most affected. As cities make critical decisions on climate policy and resilience investments, Recife, Brazil, is showing how empowering women leaders in vulnerable communities can strengthen climate resilience for all.
Through ICLEI’s Transformative Actions Program, UrbanShift cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are strengthening project design, financial planning, and investor engagement to move from concept to capital.