Join the Cities4Forests Webinar Photo Challenge

27 February 20200

Cities4Forests helps cities from around the world connect with and invest in inner forests (such as city trees and urban parks), nearby forests (such as green corridors and watersheds) and faraway forests (such as tropical and boreal forests). We support our cities to better conserve, manage, and restore these forests. And we provide technical assistance to align local policies, knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning, and communication activities for our cities to take climate action together.

NBS events

Urban Future Global Conference

18 February 20200

The URBAN FUTURE global conference is Europe’s largest event for sustainable cities. It’s the place to meet the most passionate and inspiring CityChangers from all over the world.

NBS events

European Urban Resilience Forum 2020

18 February 20200

Since 2013, the European Urban Resilience Forum* – an initiative driven by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the European Environment Agency – offers a unique exchange platform where city representatives and stakeholders from various local and regional institutions come together to discuss strategies and actions for adapting to climate change and building urban resilience.

Urban forests

CLEARING HOUSE at Biocities – towards establishing an EFI facility on Urban and Periurban Forests

18 February 20200

Our project coordinator will be present at Biocities to talk about our work and other #urbanforest related issues!

Collaborative Learning, Nature-based solutions

Launch of sister-project REGREEN

18 February 20200

Following long preparations, the kick-off meeting of H2020 project REGREEN took place in Aarhus from 22-25 of October. 16 European project partners and one of the four Chinese, gathered in a colorful setting of Aarhus landmark building – ARoS art museum designed by Olafur Eliasson, while other Chinese partners participated remotely via video conferencing.

Urban forests

CLEARING HOUSE presented during a session of the World Forum on Urban Forests

14 February 20200

Our representatives were at the wfuf milano calling / world forum on urban forests from 21-22 November 2019 at the Milan Triennale, a session of the World Forum on Urban Forests which will present the main and most advanced Urban Forestry projects on an international scale.

Collaborative Learning

CLEARING HOUSE project kicks off

10 February 20200

From the 4th to 6th of September 2019, the Metropolis Secretariat General participated to the launch of the Clearing House project in Bonn. Submitted to the European Commission in 2018 through its H2020 funding program, and CLEARING HOUSE was one of the two winner projects selected from a pool of 48. The project will foster Sino-European decentralized cooperation in expanding the knowledge of trees and forests in urban areas, and it will end in 2023. The partners of the project convened to review the project’s objectives and work plan.