UNDERSTANDING AND ADVANCING YOUTH CLIMATE INITIATIVES: STUDENT ENERGY, GLOBAL COVENANT OF MAYORS, AND MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR CITIES, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE LAUNCH THE YOUTH IMPACT FRAMEWORK Young people play a crucial role in advancing the climate and energy movement, from advocacy for policy and behavioral change to directly implementing solutions. Despite their remarkable leadership, youth face … read more

As part of continuing efforts to deepen technical support provided to cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) is launching a new initiative to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices among signatory cities from all regions of the alliance. Apply here if you want to learn from and share … read more

GCoM is launching an initiative to support signatory cities in six regions with the preparation of bankable climate projects to access financing. What is this new call about? This new initiative from the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) will provide technical support to GCoM signatory cities in the pre-feasibility stages of … read more

In this episode, our impressive lineup of guests join hosts Ben Jance, Marnie McGregor, and Andy Deacon directly from COP27 in the third episode of City Climate Innovation, a podcast series of special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast to discuss networking and innovation for cities. We hear from a range of experts that we caught … read more

That's a wrap on COP27! Thank you for joining the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), our mayors and partners for an amazing lineup of events focused on local climate solutions, innovation, finance, data and promoting a just transition. In the course of the two weeks, we were able to bring together … read more

On the 17th of November 2022, at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) released its 2022 Impact (Aggregation) Report entitled Energizing City Climate Action. The GCoM flagship report highlights the climate leadership of over 12,500 … read more

Cities and local governments are once again on the frontlines: faced with diverse and compounding human needs, rising costs of living, and energy systems that are struggling to keep pace with development. Due to conflict and decades of global underinvestment in renewable energy solutions, a dramatic shortage of 150 billion m3 of gas is plunging … read more