Industrial legacy cities face unique challenges, as they transition towards vibrant, sustainable and equitable urban centers. Cities around the world can learn lessons from where these cities have been, and how they are moving forward. The new report Urban Transitions Alliance Roadmaps: Sustainability Transition Pathways from Industrial Legacy Cities details four transition pathways that eleven post-industrial cities have undertaken, with implementation ideas and best practices for each.
The new unified reporting system has been developed on behalf of ICLEI and CDP. It will be hosted by CDP and is the official method to report on the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) commitments.
Last week ICLEI Oceania, with CURF at the University of Canberra, convened the first national roundtable linking local and global climate action with a focus on the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM).
I have just returned from spending a week in Fiji talking with local and national government leaders and community groups. Our aim was to wrap up our work supporting Fiji towns and cities to assess their disaster preparedness and lay plans for assisting them to build climate resilience.
All local governments should be concerned by the findings of the Climate Council’s latest reportWeather 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.
ICLEI 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.
At 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.
Mike Steinhoff recently arrived to deliver a carbon accounting workshop as part of the Local Government Climate Change Professional Development Program.
Community 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.
Here 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.
