ICLEI Links: 20 March 2015

Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! We missed a week last week…but in our defense, we are very busy preparing our World Congress 2015! Thanks to all on Twitter and elsewhere for sharing stories.

ICLEI Stories

ICLEI Global Executive Committee 2015-2018 established

Local Governments outline vision for post2015 disaster risk reduction ahead of Sendai Conference

EcoMobility World Festival 2015 officially launched

City Stories

Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

Creative placemaking: designing the cities of our future

The Complete Business Case for Converting Street Parking Into Bike Lanes

Energy Stories

Hawaii aims for 100% renewable energy by 2040

Bangladesh to become world’s 1st nation 100% powered by solar

North Carolina plant will turn food waste into energy

Freiburg’s solar village shining bright after 13 years

Climate Change Stories

The climate fight won’t wait for Paris – vive la résistance

Climate change and the intellectual decline of the right

Corporate concern for human rights essential to tackle climate change

Cyclone Pam shows why more people means more havoc