We support cities and regions in Asia, Africa and South America in developing community-wide 100 percent renewable energy strategies, by increasing awareness and stakeholder engagement and assessing project concepts, financeability and implementation plans.

This project facilitates the energy transition by raising local awareness on RE sources, showcasing how local and national governments can create coordinated enabling frameworks and policies, exploring access to public and private sector finance, and building local RE projects addressing electricity and heating and cooling.

We capacitate local governments in Southeast Asia to develop inclusive low emission development strategies through active citizen engagement and integration of stakeholder pledges into targets and planned activities, ultimately raising the level of ambition in national climate action plans submitted under the Paris Agreement.

We accelerate the implementation of building efficiency policies and programs across cities in the Global South, in direct support of the Building Efficiency Accelerator, in order to translate global expertise into action in cities.

We support local and regional governments with tracking and reporting on their climate targets, actions and performance through our leading global reporting platform designed for transparency, accountability and credibility.

With this tool, we aim to enable any local government or city change agent to identify and prioritize circular opportunities for their city or region, based on socioeconomic and material flow data about their context.

The Circular Turku project aims to design a regional roadmap to operationalize circularity in the Turku region with the support of local stakeholders and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and to equip local governments around the world with tools and methodologies to design their own circular transitions.

We facilitate the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues, which bring together local, regional and national governments and a diversity of climate stakeholders to take stock of, shape and strengthen Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – national climate action plans submitted under the Paris Agreement.

We work as part of the City Climate Planner Certificate Program to train and certify professionals working with greenhouse gas inventories, offering skills development in designing, planning and implementing green growth initiatives, in order to increase the global talent base of local climate planning specialists.

We promote food security, social inclusion, economic development and environmental resource management by combining networking with training, policy guidance and technical expertise on city-region food systems worldwide.

In response to the global climate emergency, ICLEI launched a Climate Neutrality Framework, calling for the necessary level of ambition and daring leadership in all cities, towns and regions around the globe, whether urban or rural.  As a part of the GreenClimateCities Program, this neutrality framework calls on all local and regional governments to accelerate climate action now.

We were engaged in a wide variety of efforts for sharing of information, networking and providing technical support to local governments during the crisis. Our offices around the world have rapidly adapted to the new reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, and are offering global and regional resources to help cities, towns and regions on the frontline of the pandemic.

We build capacity across local governments to develop and implement low carbon urban freight policies and practices through urban freight emission assessment tools, pilot demonstration projects, taking a multilevel governance approach designed to shape national policy recommendations.

We promote sustainable urban logistics in cities by establishing a platform for knowledge exchange, developing tools and methodologies to measure ecologistics performance in cities, pioneering innovative demonstration projects, and capacitating multi-stakeholder groups to shape ecologistics policies and goals in cities.

We lead the EcoMobility Alliance in pioneering integrated transport options that are environmentally-friendly, socially inclusive and urban space-friendly, by connecting them with experts, businesses and international organizations, ultimately strengthening sustainable urban transport globally.

We work with mayors and leaders of island economies at the front-line of climate change to champion local action in urban areas and build resilience in coastal and island cities around the world.

We are a founding partner of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and support cities and other subnational governments in complying with the climate commitment process, enabling them to make unique commitments and take action within their local context, in ways and at a pace that are appropriate to address their prioritized development actions and fitted to their means and aspirations.

We assess the potential for district energy systems, which produce steam, hot water or chilled water at a central plant, making them much more efficient and less energy consuming, and develop integrated roadmaps for energy policy and investment in South Asia.

We run a network of European public authorities to connect, exchange and guide the implementation of sustainable and innovative public procurement.

We strengthen the integration of biodiversity management at all levels of government and facilitate cooperation for ecosystem management in urban regions.

We catalyze and improve capital flows to cities, towns and regions and strengthen their capacity to access climate finance and attract investment through a robust pipeline of innovative and ambitious local projects that promotes transformation toward more resilient and sustainable cities and regions.

We use multilevel action to accelerate low-emission development and climate resilience across cities worldwide, strengthening cooperation and data sharing across national and local governments and working at the city level on capacity development, pilot projects and finance models designed to advance implementation and deliver on global climate goals.

We provide support and infrastructure for industrial legacy cities around the world, to identify common challenges, share knowledge and co-create solutions as part of managing their environmental, economic and social transition to a sustainable future.