20 August 2014

ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability

ICLEI is the world’s leading association of cities and local governments dedicated to sustainable development.

We are a powerful movement of 12 mega-cities, 100 super-cities and urban regions, 450 large cities as well as 450 medium-sized cities and towns in 86 countries. 

We promote local action for global sustainability and support cities to become sustainable, resilient, resource-efficient, biodiverse, low-carbon; to build a smart infrastructure; and to develop an inclusive, green urban economy with the ultimate aim to achieve healthy and happy communities.

23 July 2014

SAVE THE DATE: 1st Ministerial and Policy Conference on Sustainable Transport in Africa

The 1st Ministerial and Policy Conference on Sustainable Transport in Africa is designed to provide a platform for high-level attention and policy dialogue on access to environmentally s

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16 June 2014

SLoCaT Partnership and Bridging the Gap Initiative present at the ADP Technical Expert Meeting in Bonn

On 4-15 June 2014, the June session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) took place from in Bonn, Germany. This was a follow-up to the two technical expert meetings (TEM) were held in March 2014 on on renewable energy deployment and energy efficiency improvements, which are critical for bridging the  pre-2020 ambition gap. Parties called for a follow-up meeting after these meetings to look at the progress reached since March and discuss the way forward up to Lima to enhance mitigation ambition.

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16 June 2014

Rio+20 icons

At the the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the SLoCaT Partnership facilited the submission of 17 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport.  The Future We Want, the outcome document of Rio+20 says: “We welcome the commitments voluntarily entered into at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and throughout 2012 by all stakeholders and their networks to implement concrete policies, plans, programmes, projects and actions to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication.