Cities lead on climate with nature’s help
By Laura Huffman, Texas Regional Director, The Nature Conservancy Cities get things done at the right scale: the human scale….
Wiring trees? Smart urban parks are missing the point
This blog post represents the opinions of Olga Horn, Roman Serdar Mendle and Monika Zimmermann, Smart Cities Team, ICLEI –…
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Lessons in sustainability from India’s past: Water, water everywhere?
India currently ranks second worldwide in farm output. The country has a total arable land area of 159.7 million hectares…
Plotting a new course: Towards external financing for nature-based solutions in cities
By Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Manager, Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center (CBC) and Kobie Brand, Director of the…
Improving cities with nature: Introducing INTERACT-Bio
By Kobie Brand, Director of the ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center — INTERACT-Bio is about working together to mainstream biodiversity and…
Why nature matters in our new urban world: Making the case for nature in cities
For over 10,000 years people have been irresistibly drawn to urban life, where they live, work and play in close…
Lessons in sustainability from India’s past: Revisiting the ecological roots of sustainability
Sustainability, a word that carries such importance today, became a societal goal post 1987 after a report submitted by the…
How Sponge Cities in China manage urban water challenges
Cities in China face significant water-related challenges, including flood, reduced water quality and severe water scarcity – exacerbated by rapid…
How local action can fight global land degradation
Land degradation is a growing barrier to sustainable development. It directly affects an estimated 1.5 billion people globally, impacting food…
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Hungry for more: Cities are shaping the global food agenda
It is clear that the food, urban, resilience and sustainability agendas must come together. At the Urban Food Forum at Resilient…
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A growing menu for the urban food agenda
The regulars at the Resilient Cities congress might recall that when urban food first appeared as a topic in the…
Water management: Women must be central to inclusive strategies
by Janna Frischen, MSc Candidate, United Nations University and Resilient Cities 2017 communications volunteer Urban growth is becoming a major global…