The ICLEI - Cities Biodiversity Centre is delighted to welcome Montpellier, France as the latest city to join LAB Pioneer Project. More»

ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Center congratulates the City of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque country in northern Spain for being awarded the European Green Capital Award. More»

The City of Joondalup wins the “World’s Most Liveable City Award of 2011” at the UN endorsed annual International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom). More»

On 13 and 14 December 2011, Jerusalem LAB hosted an international workshop on “Leveraging Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Local Development”. More»

The Department of Environmental Affairs hosted a successful launch of the Rio Pavilion last night that included many high-level speakers. Programme Director Fundisile Mketeni, Deputy Director-General: Biodiversity and Conservation, introduced Keynote speaker, Minister Naledi Pandor - South African Minister of Science and Technology. More»

The ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center (formerly known as LAB) is delighted to bring you our latest BiodiverCities newsletter. It will give you an overview of some of what our team has been up to over the past few months. More»

The 3rd Expert Workshop saw a multitude of experts come together to refine the self-assessment tool for the City Biodiversity Index, also known as the Singapore Index. More»

Registration for the Durban Local Government Convention: adapting to a changing climate – towards COP17/CMP7 and beyond -  is now open. For more information visit our page.

Click here to download your registration form and click here for the first announcement.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the Green Economy Cities Report this week at the Gwangju Summit of the Urban Environmental Accords, in Korea. More»

ICLEI is pleased to announce a newly launched publication by the FAO, entitled “ Food, Agriculture and Cities - Challenges of food and nutrition security, agriculture and ecosystem management in an urbanizing world". For more on this innovative publication see here.

ICLEI-LGs for Sustainability convened the first session of the UNCCD COP 10 Rio Conventions' Pavilion on 10 October in Changwon, South Korea. More»

On 7 October 2011 the “Global workshop on climate adaptation: Biodiversity and carbon absorption for local action” was hosted in Changwon City, South Korea. More»

Species-level data and occurrence maps now reach a wider spectrum of users thanks to standardized data and improved system interoperability. More»

The City of Edmonton, Alberta, is pleased to announce that it has incorporated the tenets of the Convention on Biological Diversity into its long-term environmental planning process. More»

Kobie Brand, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center's Global Biodiversity Coordinator, was invited by the Food and Agricultural Organisation to give a plenary in the opening session of a seminar entitled “Climate Change and Cities”. More»

Kenyan environmental and social activist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai who passed on Sunday has left a lasting legacy in the work she has done to create awareness and promote the protection of the environment. More»

ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center played a central role at the Global Partnership on Local and Sub-national Action for Biodiversity meetings that took place in Bonn, Germany on 5 and 6 September. More»

The 3rd International Meeting of the BiodiverCities Advisory Committee, formerly known as the LAB Advisory Committee, took place yesterday (4 September 2011), kindly hosted by the City of Bonn, Germany. More»

ICLEI President, David Cadman, launched the latest TEEB tool for cities, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management. More»