Environmental Sustainability Strategy and City Government

Abstract

Across the world, cities of various sizes have been seen to acknowledge the impact that local governments can have when it comes to shaping and orchestrating a development towards an environmentally sustainable future. One of the first global indicators of this was the convention of the first UN World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future in 1990 and the foundation in 1991 of ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), all in preparation for the 1992 UN Rio Summit on the Environment.