Cities: The Unsung Heroes at COP21
Blog by Chris Pieper We arrived back in St. Paul, Minnesota on a cold December afternoon, after spending a week enjoying the comparatively mild weather of Paris, France. In Paris, we joined tens of thousands of people, including around 150 world leaders, who convened on the quiet Parisian suburb of Le Bourget as part of
ICLEI Links: 8 January 2016
Happy New Year to all our readers, and welcome to the first 2016 edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories Where is the most cycle-friendly city in the world? Vertical Farm 2.0 – Urban farming on a large scale 7 Awesome Ways Cities Are Leading
Transformative Actions Program (TAP) on Center Stage at Cities & Regions Pavilion
The Transformative Actions Program (TAP) showcased local and subnational climate action at COP21 in Paris, as local and subnational governments from around the world presented their ambitious, inclusive and cross-cutting plans for climate change mitigation and adaptation at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015. Over 80 projects were presented at the Cities & Regions
UCLG: Leverage Climate Finance to Finance the Sustainable City
This blog post was prepared by UCLG. In line with the dynamic started during the World Summit Climate & Territories in Lyon last July, non-state stakeholders mobilized on the issue of financing the fight against climate change have gathered on several occasions during the COP21, in order to strengthen the synergies between on-going initiatives, and bring