A blueprint to enhance United Nations collaboration with local and regional governments
The United Nations is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2020, under the shadows of a once-in-a-century pandemic, serious challenges to…
Local Governments Seek Participation in Nationally Determined Contributions
On the day that it was announced that COP26 will be postponed a full year because of the global COVID-19…
Four issues to watch at the unstoppable COP25
Written by Yunus Arikan, Head of ICLEI Global Advocacy and Policy, and Matteo Bizzotto, Junior Communications Officer After a turbulent…
Top 5 takeaways for cities and regions from the UN Climate Action Summit
For this year’s Climate Action Summit in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on leaders to bring concrete, realistic…
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[Infographic] How ICLEI’s five pathways contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 goals to transform our world. These goals are part of the 2030 Agenda for…
Mayors of Katowice and Bonn: Our call for deep transformation and greater ambition at COP24
By Ashok Sridharan, Mayor of Bonn and President of ICLEI and Marcin Krupa, Mayor of Katowice and member of the…
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Resilient Cities 2018: Driving global conversations
Knowledge exchange and technical deep dives are always core elements of the annual Resilient Cities congress. The program is designed…
Multilevel climate governance: A hot topic for the next decade
The Talanoa Dialogue launched at COP23, the 23rd United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2017, is designed to take stock of and…
When science meets policy and practice: Top 3 ways to achieve Paris goals
We need to dig in and build stronger links between climate science, urban policy and practice. The interconnection between the…
ICLEI’s take on what to expect in 2018: The year for a reality check
Last year ended with a sense that the momentum on sustainable development is durable. It was a hard blow when…
ICLEI’s top 5 takeaways from COP23
COP23, the 23rd United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, came to a close on 18 November 2017. Here…
COP23 is on track to set the scene for multilevel, multistakeholder climate action. This is how success could look
Every year, there is a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP)….