21 City and County Leaders Launch ICLEI150 Race to Zero in the United States
ICLEI150 is an ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability USA (ICLEI USA) initiative. During 2021, ICLEI USA will support 150 U.S. local governments in the Cities Race to Zero through the development of their 2030 science-based emission reduction target and guidance to implement at least one high-impact action. Participants receive ICLEI USA’s support to achieve […]
The American Jobs Plan is a Climate Plan and ICLEI Cities and Counties are Ready Partners
On March 31, 2021, President Biden traveled to Pittsburgh to announce, in partnership with Mayor Bill Peduto, the President’s economic vision for building back better with the American Jobs Plan. This plan lays out a path that will not only deliver on jobs but also justice and climate solutions. Local governments will play an important […]
CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System Webinars
To kick off this year’s reporting cycle, CDP and ICLEI are hosting webinars to help you get started if it’s your first time, or if you’ve reported before, we will highlight recent changes to the Cities questionnaire and explain how our partnership supports your city. Both webinars will run twice, so feel free to sign up for […]
Conversation with Maia Davis: Elements of Regional Climate Planning
Maia Davis is a Senior Environmental Planner at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG). COG connects leaders across the metropolitan Washington region, representing over 5.7 million people, to develop solutions to the area’s major challenges. Maia is part of the COG team that developed and manages the Metropolitan Washington 2030 Climate and Energy Action […]
New Tool for Measuring Forest Emissions and Sequestration
Increasing carbon sequestration and reducing emissions from local forests and trees plays a key role in climate change mitigation. Land use, land-use change, and forestry resulted in a net offset of 12.3 percent of the United State’s total 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To better understand local GHGs from forests, communities can now use the […]
Transitioning to a Circular Economy: Measuring Where to Start
How cities can build a circular economy can seem complex and perplexing — but it helps to think of local-level circularity as expanding on the “Three R’s” many of us learned in school: to regenerate, rethink, reuse, reduce, and recover. In this way, regeneration, including of the ecosystems upon which our society depends, and rethinking […]
ICLEI’s North American Governing Committee Supports a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership with Local-Level Action
The Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership establishes a blueprint for an ambitious and whole-of-government effort against the COVID-19 pandemic, while addressing some of the most pressing challenges confronting our region, including climate change, global health security, cooperation on defense and security, and our two nations’ shared commitment to diversity, equity, and justice. As the […]
U.S. Cities are NOT Vastly Undercounting Emissions
City climate accounting standards are consistent methods that capture emissions most policy-relevant to local governments For Immediate Release: 02/05/21 On February 2, 2021, Nature Communications published a study whose results indicate an under-reporting of city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across 48 U.S. cities. The GHG accounting method in the study is atypical in local GHG […]
U.S. Mayors Bring Local Recommendation to White House Climate Leadership
On January 27 “Climate Day”, President Biden released Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The order calls for putting the climate crisis at the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security through a government-wide approach, while securing environmental justice and spurring economic opportunity. These issues are ones that mayors […]
ICLEI USA Congratulates Climate Mayors’ Leadership Announcements
Climate Mayors announced that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will become the next Chair of the nationwide peer-to-peer network of U.S. mayors. Mayor Turner will fill a vacancy created by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who leaves the city and his post at Climate Mayors to become labor secretary in the Biden-Harris administration. ICLEI Local Governments for […]