Activity Database

CitiesWithNature is a partnership initiative between ICLEI, IUCN, TNC, WWF, the United Nations Environment Programme, and many other organizations that provides an innovative online platform to support the co-evolution of cities with nature. It offers access to an extensive array of guides, tools, and case studies to help cities and city regions redefine their relationship with nature. This interactive platform is recognized by the SCBD as the official vehicle for local and subnational governments to report their reports and ambitions for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

Find out more at citieswithnature.org

The climate emergency is happening right now, in our cities, towns, and regions around the world. Our global leaders are struggling to address this urgent crisis. But the daring actions of local leaders are spreading around the globe.

Created by ICLEI and the Federal City of Bonn, Daring Cities is a virtual, action-oriented forum to recognize and empower courageous urban leaders – including mayors and other decision-makers, technical staff, researchers, private sector representatives, and community organizers – to disrupt business-as-usual and shift towards business-as-possible. Daring Cities showcases and catalyzes exemplary local climate action to tackle the climate emergency, including ambitious resilience-building and climate mitigation efforts.

Find out more at daringcities.org

The EcoMobility Alliance is a network of ambitious cities, led by innovators and visionaries, supported by experts and businesses, committed to building a sustainable mobility future that is efficient, people-centered, low emission, and environmentally friendly.

Founded in 2011 with six cities, the Alliance has since grown to 23 cities from various regions of the world. Since its inception, the EcoMobility Alliance has worked to become a truly global actor by engaging a geographically diverse range of cities and partners. Cities that have joined have shown significant efforts to advance and implement sustainable urban mobility.

Find out more at Sustainable Mobility at ICLEI

The EcoProcura conference series started in 1998 as a forum to promote exchange and dialogue on the latest strategies and practical solutions for sustainable, circular, and innovative procurement. The conference series has also been replicated in China:

• EcoProcura China 2015: Summary and Highlights (Chinese)
• EcoProcura China 2018: Summary and Highlights

Find out more at EcoProcura 

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) is the largest global alliance for city climate leadership across the globe.

Through participating in working groups of GCoM, ICLEI provides technical guidance which addresses mitigation and adaptation in specific data-related sub-groups, including Emissions and Targets; Climate Action Planning; Resilience; and Access to Energy. ICLEI also participates in non-data-related groups, including Access to Finance; Governance and Regional Coherence; Research; and Communications.

ICLEI has a representative in each group and sub-group, submits written comments, and attends calls and in-person meetings. The goal is to unify and centralize how data are reported, using which channels, and how is it communicated to global stakeholders. ICLEI also provides data revision toward GCoM requirements for ICLEI Members and network of cities.

Find out more at globalcovenantofmayors.org

Coordinated by ICLEI, the Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement gathers a group of cities committed to driving the transition to sustainable consumption and production by implementing sustainable and innovative procurement.

Through defining quantified targets for their procurement processes, GLCN Cities act as ambassadors of sustainable procurement to lead to a resource-efficient, low-carbon, and socially responsible society.

Find out more at glcn-on-sp.org

WRI, C40, and ICLEI have partnered to create a GHG Protocol standard for cities formally known as Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC). 

The GPC provides a robust framework for accounting and reporting city-wide greenhouse gas emissions. It seeks to:

• help cities develop a comprehensive and robust greenhouse gas inventory in order to support climate action planning;
• help cities establish a base year emissions inventory, set reduction targets, and track their performance;
• ensure consistent and transparent measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions between cities, following internationally recognized greenhouse gas accounting and reporting principles;
• enable city inventories to be aggregated at subnational and national levels; and
• demonstrate the important role that cities play in tackling climate change, and facilitate insight through benchmarking – and aggregation – of comparable data.

Find out more about GHG Protocol for Cities 

ICLEI connects like-minded cities to exchange experiences and lessons learned on the way towards the circular economy, advocates the necessity of closing-the-loop thinking, identifies cities’ circular good practices, shares the latest knowledge, and provides suggestions on mainstreaming the circular development in urban strategic planning and policies.

Launched in 2019, the Green Circular Cities Coalition （GCCC） presents a platform for cities, experts, businesses, and relevant stakeholders in East Asia and Europe, to help foster their mindset shift from the end-of-pipe treatment of waste toward closed-loop thinking. This mindset change can have a positive influence on local governments’ actions to achieve a zero-carbon society and the SDGs. Cities can further review, synergize and optimize existing policies and strategies via the lenses of circularity and life-cycle management.

The Green Circular Cities Coalition is managed by ICLEI East Asia, and currently has 6 members from China, Japan, and Finland.

Find out more about the Green Circular Cities Coalition 

Procura+ is a network of public authorities that connect, exchange and act on sustainable, green, and innovation procurement. Established in 2004 by ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability in Europe, the Procura+ Network allows participants to share knowledge and develop capacity through regular meetings, seminars, and case studies. In addition, participants can also receive consulting services on formulating local green specifications and customized action plans, and celebrate achievements via the Procura+ Awards.

Procura+ East Asia supports local governments from China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia in achieving sustainable and low-carbon development goals through sustainable, green, and innovation procurement. It is managed by the ICLEI East Asia Secretariat with support from the ICLEI Global Sustainable Procurement Center and other strategic partners in the region.

Find out more at procuraplus.org

The Solutions Gateway is an online resource platform for local and regional governments where they will be able to find relevant Low Emissions Development (LED) Solutions for their cities. It contains sectoral and cross-sectoral packages of activities, structured along with local government responsibilities and spheres of influence, to support cities in the development of low-emission strategies, plans, and projects.

The Solutions Gateway contents are based on proven technologies and practices, distilled into Solutions and Solution Packages which are drafted and peer-reviewed by experts in the respective field. The platform was developed under the Urban-LEDS project, funded by the European Union, and jointly implemented by ICLEI and UN-Habitat.

Find out more at solutions-gateway.org