On Sustainable Cities & Towns
Dunkerque Grand Littoral, France, co-organised with ICLEI Local Government on Sustainability and with Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign, had the honour of hosting the 6th European Sustainable Cities and Towns conference. For three days, over 1800 mayors. elected officials, techical experts and representatives of EU institutions, national governments, business and NGO´s were present to debate, exchange and challenge ideas and experiences about the sustainable city of the 21 st century. This excellently performed conference, with high service and information contents, marked an additional step in the concrete mobilisation of local governments and their significant role in the field of sustainable development. Local government have a distinct political will and a territorial commitment that place them in a prime position for a true change of practice.
TCO Development contributed to the conference by a presentation of a study of how local governments can work with greening their IT, under the title ” Green IT strategies in Swedish local authorities can save up to 700 million Euro per year”. The presentation was based on a recent study of 35 out of 280 Swedish local authorities, performed by Exido, Sweden.
Read more about this interesting conference on www.dunkerque.org
Read about ICLEI on http://iclei.org/;
about Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign on http://www.sustainable-cities.eu/
Read more about Exido`s work on greening IT in Local Authorities on http://www.exido.se/GronIT/