ICLEI President David Cadman along with First Vice- President, Martha Delgado, Vice-President James Nxumalo and Vice-President Mary Jane Ortega of ICLEI’s Global Executive Committee (GexCom) extended their congratulations to Gino Van Begin on his succeeding Konrad Otto-Zimmermann as Secretary Genera... [more]

ICLEI Member cities Kaohsiung City (Chinese Taipei) and Malé City (Maldives) have agreed to become sister cities to foster exchange on sustainable development.  [more]

Gino Van Begin succeeded Konrad Otto-Zimmermann as ICLEI Secretary General in January 2013. To mark this occasion various UN agencies and heads have sent their congratulations and felicitations to the new Secretary General.  [more]

The City of Bonn, Germany – ICLEI Member City and the host of ICLEI World Secretariat - has embarked on a new sustainable low-carbon development partnership with its sister city Chengdu – the home of giant pandas and the capital city of China’s Sichuan Province. [more]

Around the world, only a relatively few number of local governments have developed policies and mechanisms specifically aimed at utilizing renewable energy resources. IRENA and ICLEI collaborated to produce seven case studies to present different policy tools available to local governments to harves... [more]

Over 200 representatives from local and national governments, financial institutions, NGOs, businesses, international organizations and networks gathered in Basel, Switzerland on 22-23 January for the 3rd Global Energy Basel (GEB) Summit – an annual conference on financing sustainable infrastructure... [more]

Covering 934 facilities across Tokyo – capital city of Japan – the Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program has reduced 23 percent of emission amounting to 2.16 million t-CO2 in fiscal year 2011, a flash report by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) announced on 21 January 2012. [more]