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The EcoMobility World Festival 2015, organised by the City of Johannesburg in partnership with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, comes to a close this weekend with an “eco-block party” in the Sandton Central Business District. A month-long experiment of an eco-mobile urban transport system, the Festival allowed commuters to leave their cars at home and … Continued
ICLEI Africa released today a brochure demonstrating learnings from the recent Urban-LEDS project and inviting you to partner with us. From 2012 – 2015 we helped strengthen the transition to a low-carbon future in 7 municipalities in South Africa through strategy formulation, leadership development, technical training, demonstration projects, community involvement, and peer-to-peer learning. We invite stakeholders from … Continued
Sandton transforms into street-play heaven, wrapping up the EcoMobility Festival with sports and live music events. The next three weekends will see the streets of Sandton transform into street-play haven, as the City of Joburg rounds up its EcoMobility Festival, with fun, games and loads of entertainment. Read more on the official site here!
The first Southern African Regional Workshop closed with local governments renewing their commitments creating a more sustainable future and encouraging others to do the same. With the close of the first Southern Africa Regional Workshop on implementation of the Durban Adaptation Charter, local governments in attendance renewed their commitments to implementing action towards building resilience to … Continued
West Rand District Municipality has demonstrated a strong political commitment to protect and enhance local biodiversity by signing the Durban Commitment: Local Governments for Biodiversity. The Durban Commitment was developed, founded and signed by 21 local governments as a commitment and model by local governments for local governments, and the communities they serve, to protect and … Continued
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) is pleased to announce the unveiling of the Grootkloof Environmental Education Centre, situated in the Van der Kemp’s Kloof Nature Reserve in Port Elizabeth. This centre has been built by the local municipality with the aim of providing a venue for environmental education to the local community. Funding was allocated to … Continued
In the far north of South Africa, the beautiful Waterberg District – named after its mountains and watercourses – demonstrated its commitment at the municipal level to conserving its rich biological wealth for future generations. Rounding off the ‘Wetlands for Prosperity’ workshop, the Executive Mayor of Waterberg District, the Honourable Councillor Rosina Mogotlane was joined … Continued
As climate change impacts unfold in Southern Africa, it further compounds many challenges already faced by local governments in delivering on their mandates. The Durban Adaptation Charter, launched at UNFCCC COP 17/CMP 7 in Durban in 2011, defines an important and innovative vision for championing climate change from the local level. That it was launched … Continued
Watch Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau and ICLEI Secretary General Gino van Begin answer media questions about the 2015 Ecomobility festival. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Johannesburg hosted an online press conference on 17 September on the occasion of the EcoMobility World Festival 2015, the first on the African continent, which will “turn the streets of … Continued
It is widely known that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. As the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown, climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on African societies, and Africans’ interaction with the natural environment. There are also signs that the impacts … Continued