Global Green City Update

The AIPH Global Green City Update is a monthly mailing that collates the most recent insights on Green City initiatives around the world. Click on the icons below to read each edition.


This edition of the Global Green City Update features The role of cities UNFCCC’s COP28, the recent Circular Cities Summit, the Local Action Climate Summit, and much more.	Released on World Cities Day, this edition of the Global Green City Update announced the Technical Panel for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024. It also included the Invasive Alien Species Assessment, the Canadian Landscape Standard, and much more.	The September edition of the Global Green City Update features UNECE Forests’ Action Toolkit, International Federation of Landscape Architects’ new book, Australia’s plant selection tool, ICLEI’s Food Handbook, and much more.


The August edition of the Global Green City Update features three new additions to the AIPH Green City Case Study Collection, the EU Nature Restoration Law, research on minimising pollen allergies, and much more.	The July edition of the Global Green City Update includes the OECD’s Policy Instruments for the Environment, the Green Infrastructure Resource Library by the Green Infrastructure Partnership, a report on ‘Reshaping the City’ from the Urban Land Institute, and much more.	This month’s edition of the Global Green City Update features the NBS Comic coordinated by The Nature of Cities, the Urban Land Institute’s ‘Parks that Protect’ report, and case studies from Zagreb, Croatia, and Durban, South Africa, and much more.

The May edition of the AIPH Global Green City Update has a special focus on Biodiversity in cities in light of the International Day of Biodiversity held on 22nd May.	This month’s edition of the Global Green City Update includes more details about entering the AIPH World Green City Awards, insight into what makes an Ecocity, and case studies from Chengdu, China, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and much more.	The March edition of the Update features a publication on community gardens by AARP Livable Communities and 8 80 Cities, the winner of the WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities, and two new Green City Case Studies.

Happy New Year! The first Global Green City Update of 2023 features the State of Finance for Nature report, Cape Town’s Herbinisation initiative, the European Green Capital of the year: Tallinn, Estonia, and much more.	This month, there’s a focus on green spaces for children, including: the Trust for Public Land’s transformation of New York’s playgrounds, the City of San José’s Fostering Community Connection initiative, Ville de Paris’ OASIS Schoolyard Project, and more.


The December edition of the Global Green City Update features updates from COP 15, the new Youth Award for the AIPH World Green City Awards, use’s Digital Citymaker’s Summit, and much more.	The November edition of the Global Green City Update features the Edinburgh Declaration, the upcoming COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, the Nature for Life Hub, and much more.	The October edition of the Global Green City Update features the upcoming COP 15 in Montréal, the C40 World Mayors Summit, “Parches Verdes – Lungs for Life” in Aburrá Valley, Colombia, and much more.

This special edition of the Global Green City Update showcases the winners of the inaugural AIPH World Green City Awards. The winners were announced at a gala dinner in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, South Korea, as part of the IUCN Leaders Forum.	The September edition of the Global Green City Update highlights the ‘Living Green for Health & Wellbeing’ finalists for the AIPH World Green City Awards, a nature-based solutions report by UNEP, and much more.	The August edition of the Global Green City Update announces the AIPH Green City Briefings 2022/23, offers a review of the ‘Living Green for Climate Change’ finalists for the AIPH World Green City Awards, and much more.

The July edition of the Global Green City Update features the UN’s ‘Beat the Heat’ handbook, EILO‘s ‘Best Project Competition’, an in-depth look into three of the finalists for the AIPH World Green City Awards, and much more.	The June edition of the Global Green City Update features the Shortlist for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2022, the World Economic Forum report on BiodiverCities, Izmir’s strategy for living in harmony with nature, and much more.	The May edition of the Global Green City Update highlights CitiesWithNature’s “22 Actions cities can take for nature”, a report by ARUP titled “Cities Alive: Green Building Envelope”, the AIPH Green City Guidelines, and much more.

The April edition of the Global Green City Update features a Seed Session from the The Nature Of Cities Festival, the Urban Biodiversity Hub’s “Urban Butterfly Effect,” the FAO’s IDPH, Floriade Expo 2022, and much more.