Photo Contest Congratulations to Ms. Sayamon Saiyot, who won the Resilient Cities 2015 Photo Contest with the image featured above! Sayamon is a student at the Yokohama National University, where she is conducting research on how to enhance community resilience against flooding in Thailand. Sayamon’s photo captured the contest theme – “Testimonies of resilience: Snapshots…
Representatives of five cities to have received prestigious international sustainability awards took to the stage in Seoul this afternoon to discuss how their progress had been achieved. Morten Kabell of Copenhagen (Denmark), George Ferguson of Bristol (UK), Dejan Crnek of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Johannes van der Merwe of Cape Town (South Africa) and Dagur Eggertsson of…
The ICLEI World Congress 2015 opened today at the iconic Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, Republic of Korea, officially setting off a landmark four-day platform where mayors and representatives of 250 local governments, and a total of over 1,500 participants, shall discuss and unveil ‘Sustainable Solutions for an Urban Future.’ The event also marks the…