Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 June 2012 — - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon applauds a crowd of Mayors and local government officials for advancing sustainability in their towns and cities at the Rio+20 Global Town Hall today.  [Full text...]

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability East Asia Secretariat and Korea Environment Corporation sign on a Memorandum of Understanding on environmental collaboration on the occasion of the Rio+20 Global Town Hall. [Full text...]

At the Rio+20 event in Brazil, Mr. Tae-Young Yeom, Mayor of Suwon, Mr. Jae-Joon Lee, Vice Mayor of Suwon, Mr. David Cadman, President of ICLEI, Mr. Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General of ICLEI, and Mr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat signed the tripartite MoU for the world first E... [Full text...]

The GreenClimateCities Initiative was launched today by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability in response to the Appeal for Urgent Action on Climate Change by a taskforce of experts convened by Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. [Full text...]

A message from the ICLEI World Congress for the Rio +20 will be delivered by the mayor of Belo Horizonte, Marcio Lacerda, to the United Nations (UN) on Thursday, 21 June, during "Global Town Hall - Cities Leadership for the 2030 Urban World" event of the Rio+20 Global Town Hall. [Full text...]

Mayors and other elected representatives of local governments from around the world came together on Sunday morning, 17 June 2012, in the Noble Hall of the Municipality of Belo Horizonte for the General Assembly of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change. [Full text...]

The ICLEI Global Executive Committee has been confirmed by the ICLEI Council representing around 1,200 local government members. The inaugural meeting took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on the occasion of the ICLEI World Congress 2012. [Full text...]

Eugene (Oregon, U.S.A.) has received a 2008 Sustainable Transport Award for its new Emerald Express (EmX) bus rapid transit system. [Full text...]

A new garden bin waste service is being launched in Whittlesea (Australia).  [Full text...]

The Fora de Risco programme in Goiânia (Brazil) is a public housing program that incorporates social, economic and environmental aspects of urban development into a single project. [Full text...]

Santa Rosa (California, U.S.A.) taps into neighbouring geysers to generate 850 megawatts of power. [Full text...]

Kuopio (Finland) has been active in climate change mitigation activities since 1997.  [Full text...]

The green public procurement policy of Amaroussion (Greece) was the winner of the Green Public Procurement (GPP) Best Practice Award in Greece in 2006. [Full text...]

The city of Osaka (Japan) promotes walking on its website, providing scenic routes to follow. [Full text...]

Experience. Leadership. Solutions. The ICLEI U.S.A. Local Action Summit 2008 will take place in Albuquerque (New Mexico, U.S.A.) on 14-16 May 2008. [Full text...]

"More than hot air – Local Action on Climate Change" highlights that global warming effects require not only declarations but action. Through the European Membership Convention 2008, ICLEI seeks to encourage and prepare its Members to drastically cut carbon emission levels and to reshape our cities,... [Full text...]

On 2 April 2008 ICLEI will co-host the New England (U.S.A.) Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Municipal Climate Adaptation Workshop. [Full text...]

ICLEI will hold its next European Membership Convention in Zaragoza (Spain) on 23 - 25 June 2008. [Full text...]

ICLEI invites its Members to the forum “Managing a Sustainable Future for Cities and Regions". [Full text...]

ICLEI’s Sustainable Procurement team will be organizing a one-day workshop on Fair Trade in public procurement in February 2008 in Lyon (France). [Full text...]

A Mayors Conference will be held 26-28 May 2008 as a parallel event to the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, in Bonn (Germany). [Full text...]