Blantyre is Malawi’s second largest city and is also commonly referred to as the commercial capital of the country. With a growing population of around 700 000, a figure representing a 5.1 % share of the national population, Blantyre City is under growing pressure to provide adequate socioeconomic services for its residents. However, climate change … Continued

WRI, C40 and ICLEI Establish First Common Standard to Measure and Report City Emissions. On 8 December the World Resources Institute (WRI), C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) launched the first widely endorsed standard for cities to measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a COP20 event featuring mayors and officials from … Continued

Ten municipal staff from four Urban-LEDS project municipalities in South Africa attended a five day accredited training course from 17 – 21 November 2014 on “Energy and Sustainable Urban Development”. The course, run by Sustainable Energy Africa and University of Cape Town brought together municipal and other government officials from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa … Continued

The Biodiversity Mainstreaming Toolbox for land-use planning and development in Gauteng brings together the suite of biodiversity management and conservation tools that have been developed to streamline biodiversity into planning and decision-making across the province of Gauteng, South Africa. Download it here! Read more from the ICLEI Africa Project page here.

Call for Technical Experts: Developing Green Building Policies/guidelines in two South African Municipalities Call for Technical Experts: Developing Green Building Policies/guidelines in two South African Municipalities Download the details here!

The ICLEI Urban-LEDS project adopted a unique collaborative scenario planning approach to low-emission development planning in two South African municipalities. It reveals diverse insights into the challenges linking climate change to the future economic competitiveness of the region. “This article originally appeared in the first South African Urban Energy Network Newsletter run by Sustainable Energy … Continued

A case study on the Urban Food-Energy-Water NEXUS pilot project in Kinondoni Municipality of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has just been published. It details the planning process, implementation opportunities and reflective lessons from the nine-month pilot project at two local primary schools, Tandale Elimu and Hekima. The project was implemented in close partnership between ICLEI … Continued

The Global 100% RE initiative and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) have signed an agreement to jointly facilitate and foster the progress towards 100% Renewable Energy among local governments around the globe. The aim is to start exploring more ambitious renewable energy (RE) targets, moving towards 100% RE where possible. The partnership is aimed at … Continued

World Toilet Day takes place annually on 19 November and will see the World Toilet Organization, various non-governmental organisations and individuals around the world celebrate its 14th Anniversary. In 2001 participants of the World Toilet Summit in Singapore gathered to develop an annual global call to action to celebrate the world’s existing sanitation facilities and … Continued

The upcoming COP20 will be held in Lima from 1 to 12 December and is expected to attract hundreds of delegates from across the globe in an effort to tackle climate change. United Nations Climate Change Conference Lima, Peru Download the the overview here (last updated 7 November, 2014)