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Advocate: Knowledge development and capacity building

Developing and disseminating new knowledge and building stakeholder capacity are critical enablers of circular transitions. Working alongside our partners, ICLEI leverages best practice learnings to get circular development on urban agendas around the world. Our projects bring stakeholders together on a variety of platforms to facilitate knowledge transfer, scale up innovations, and promote collective action.

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Circular City Actions Framework

The Circular City Actions Framework was developed by ICLEI, Circle Economy and Metabolic to facilitate the identification of circular economy interventions at the local level. The framework provides urban changemakers with 5 complementary strategies they can use to start working towards a more circular system.
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Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities

Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities (IFWEN) is a Belmont Forum funded international team of researchers and stakeholders working to advance knowledge about urban governance related to the food, water, and energy nexus (FWEN) and green and blue infrastructure (GBI). The project is developing approaches to build, govern, and assess FWEN and GBI solutions.
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The Global Platform for Sustainable Cities

The Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC) is a knowledge platform that promotes integrated solutions and offers innovation support to cities on improving urban sustainability. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the platform currently comprises 28 cities across 11 countries and includes circular development as one of its key topics.
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Big Buyers for Climate and Environment

Big Buyers for Climate and Environment is a European Commission Initiative that promotes collaboration between big public buyers (cities, central purchasing bodies, and other major public procurers) in implementing sustainable procurement. The initiative includes a working group on Circular Construction Materials that brings together public procurers from European local governments.
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ICLEI’s Global Advocacy

ICLEI’s Global advocacy strategy aims to build a global policy environment that supports local and regional governments in their efforts to scale up sustainable urban development worldwide.
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About ICLEI Circulars

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network working with more than 2500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development. Active in 125+ countries, we influence sustainability policy and drive local action for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development.

Circular Development is one of ICLEI´s five strategic pathways towards sustainable urban development. Through the Circular Development pathway, local and regional governments decouple urban and economic development from resource consumption, encourage equitable access to resources and create closed-loop urban and peri-urban systems. They support new local economies that are productive and not extractive, where resources are exchanged and not wasted.

ICLEI Circulars is managed by the Circular Development Team at the World Secretariat (Bonn) in close collaboration with the ICLEI Regional Offices around the world.

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