All local governments should be concerned by the findings of the Climate Council’s latest report Weather Gone Wild. It summarises key extreme weather events that hit Australia and the world last year, with economic losses associated with weather-related disasters estimated to be US $215 billion, costs ultimately carried by people, communities and local governments.
Read MoreICLEI launches crowd funding campaign for the “Young Writers Network” a program to mobilise students to transform their research into more accessible formats. With only 12 years left to keep global temperatures below 1.5 degrees of warming, the value of sharing scientific knowledge on climate and sustainability has never been more urgent.
Read MoreAt its 48th plenary session in Incheon, South Korea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the leading international body mandated to assess climate change – approved the Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science, the primary outcome of CitiesIPCC, the first-of-its-kind Cities and Climate Change Science conference in Edmonton, Canada this past March.
The City of Melbourne has developed the draft Climate Change Mitigation Strategy that aims to reduce the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the municipality.
Read MoreMike Steinhoff recently arrived to deliver a carbon accounting workshop as part of the Local Government Climate Change Professional Development Program.
Read MoreCatch up with all the outcomes from the ICLEI World Congress 2018 in Montréal, Canada including key dialogues from #ICLEI2018.
Read MoreCommunity is the heart of the City of Unley, a council home to nearly 40,000 people in a leafy suburban area of Adelaide. We caught up with them to talk all things sustainability. According to spokesperson Erin Thompson, the City of Unley places special emphasis on integrating community perspectives and ideas when planning for a sustainable future.
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Read MoreHere is an opportunity to participate in the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) consultation process. Your feedback is extremely valuable to us - sharing your views based on experience, to help us finalize recommendations towards a common global reporting framework for city emissions inventories, targets, risk and vulnerability assessments, and climate action plans.
This review provides a comprehensive assessment of the actions Australian councils and communities are taking to tackle climate change, along with the barriers and challenges they face.
Read MoreMelbourne local government sustainability managers and officers are invited to two special workshops on Thursday 3rd May.
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, 2 March 2018 – Less than 24 hours after Honiara launched a major review of its disaster resilience planning, heavy rain and flash floods provided an immediate test of the city’s preparedness.
Resilient Cities - The Annual Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation - is the global platform for urban resilience and climate change adaptation, hosted in Bonn, Germany.
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