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COP28 President-Designate Sultan Al Jaber and UN Special Envoy Michael R. Bloomberg Announce First COP-Hosted Local Climate Action Summit to Deliver Climate Progress at All Government Levels

Convening hundreds of mayors, governors, and subnational leaders alongside heads of state, Summit at COP28 in Dubai will recognize the critical role of local leaders in the COP process eight years after local leaders convened on the sidelines of COP21 to turbocharge climate ambition  Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy for Climate Change of the People’s Republic … read more

C40 mayors and EU leaders meet to address energy and climate crises

Milan, Rome, Oslo lead the mayoral delegation to Brussels. Mayors call on EU and national governments to steer more recovery and resilience funds directly to cities to accelerate home insulation, starting with 6 million social and low incomes homes per year. Cities play an essential role in delivering on REPowerEU and European Green Deal Industrial … read more

CITIES JOIN URBAN TRANSITIONS MISSION TO PIONEER THE PATHWAY TO NET-ZERO

48 cities from 24 countries announced at COP27 will progressively engage with the Urban Transitions Mission beginning in 2023 SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT (14 November 2022) — Today 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) together … read more

Launch of New Series of Scientific Reports to Inform & Increase Urban Climate Action

Sharm El-Sheikh (November 11, 2022) – Today, the Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP) launched a three-volume series of scientific reports to distill the most relevant climate science for urban actors from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Reports (AR6). As a result of a year-long process of co-creation, the SUP reports capture the … read more

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