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Collaboration cultivates innovation: How ICLEI Africa and the City of Cape Town have been pioneering local sustainability action for two decades The City of Cape Town in South Africa has always been a front-runner in taking action for urban sustainability and resilience. The City’s Executive Director of Spatial Planning and Environment, Mr Osman Asmal, appointed … Continued
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KwaDukuza (formerly known as Stanger), a local municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was selected as the winner, beating seven other entries, four of which were major cities.
Nakuru County, Kenya’s fourth most populous, is one of the front runners in addressing climate change and is taking action through embarking on the process of developing
In Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam, large open green spaces are few and far between. Pockets of land left open by city planners quickly become informally re-purposed by street vendors to sell fruit and vegetables, by the urban poor for development of informal dwellings or are even used as waste dumping areas. But the Urban Natural … Continued
New Policies for Net-Zero Buildings and Efficiency Retrofits Reaffirm City’s Commitment to Building Efficiency Accelerator. Today, the City of Tshwane, South Africa, took its energy efficiency efforts to the next level, announcing new commitments to retrofit and refurbish public buildings with the assistance of the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA). The BEA is a public-private initiative … Continued
The winners of the 2018 One Planet City Challenge were announced at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on 12 September 2018. ICLEI has partnered with WWF for a number of years, to work with cities in the development of their One Planet City Challenge submissions. This year’s challenge focused on sustainable urban mobility and attracted 132 cities from … Continued
The City of Tshwane’s sustainability journey has grown considerably since the signing of the Compact of Mayors, launched at the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit. The effects of climate change are already being experienced in the City, with temperature increases higher than the global average, changes in rainfall patterns and extreme weather events. The City … Continued
Nairobi City County, capital city of Kenya, has joined ICLEI, the global network of cities and subnational governments for sustainability, as its 100th member in Sub-Sahara Africa. This east African metropolis, which is a major regional diplomatic and financial hub, is home to over 3 million people. It now joins its fellow leading African cities … Continued
One year after Dar es Salaam became East Africa’s first city to implement a bus-rapid transit system, the Tanzanian capital has been awarded a major transportation prize. SANTIAGO, Chile — One year after Dar es Salaam became East Africa’s first city to implement a bus-rapid transit system, the Tanzanian capital has been awarded a major … Continued
